This edited volume presents an international collection of fieldwork experiences from every stage of the research process with a view to normalising the process of adaptation, modification, and even failure during the fieldwork process when circumstances interrupt the expected outcomes.
This book aims to address a gap often found in methodology books by including nine full autopsy-like reflection of fieldwork experiences, selected based on researchers’ fields and experience, the diversity of geographical locations and their differing themes. Its chapters record a swathe of experience, from choosing the research themes and hypotheses through to academic presentations and publications, shedding light on an area of experience that is often overlooked.
Documenting experience from anthropologists and sociologists to political scientists and economists, the diversity of the book’s approach and its multidisciplinary focus will interest researchers, scholars, and postgraduate students from a range of subdisciplines and levels of fieldwork experience within research methodology.
This edited volume presents an international collection of fieldwork experiences from every stage of the research process with a view to normalising the process of adaptation, modification, and even failure during the fieldwork process when circumstances interrupt the expected outcomes.
1: An Introspective Look into Qualitative Research Experiences 2: To be
there for what? Reflections on fieldwork in post-Katrina New Orleans 3:
Mistaken assumptions, minority approachs gatekeepers and unexpected
developments: reflections on a fieldwork about Japanese sake 4: Mosaic
ethnography: Blended lives between online and offline China 5: An Expanding
Fieldwork or When a Small Idea Becomes Larger than Anticipated: Studying
Chinese New Year Red Packets 6: From localized to globalized markets: change
in doing fieldwork in a port city 7: A Case Study of families living in
between Mexico and the US: discussing epistemologies and methodologies from
a transnational perspective. 8: The politics of communicating with the
Indigenous people in Sarawak 9: How? - Participatory action research with a
low-income community
10. Alone, in Pairs, as a Team: Reflections on a
Mixed-Methods Approach to the Gender of Capital
11. Fieldwork Perspectives:
from Autopsy to Biopsy
Louis Augustin-Jean is Senior Lecturer, Department of Political Science, Public Administration and Development Studies, University of Malaya, Malaysia.
