The book explores the implications that research-density has on the people and places researched, on the researchers, on the data collected and knowledge produced, and on the theories that are developed.
It examines the effects that research-density has on the people and places researched, on the researchers, on the data collected and knowledge produced, and on the theories that are developed. By weaving together experiences from a variety of countries and across disciplinary boundaries and research methods, the volume outlines the roots of over-research, where it comes from and what can be done about it.
The book will be useful for social science students and researchers working in ethnographic disciplines such as Human Geography, Anthropology, Urban Planning, and Sociology and seeking to navigate the tricky absent present of already existing research on their fields of exploration.
Introduction: Over-research: what, why, when, where, how?
1. Towards a
theory of over-researched places
2. Overcoming over-research? Reflections
from Sydneys Petri dish
3. Epistemological, decolonial, and critical
reflections in constructing research in former Yugoslavia
4. Ghosts of
researchers past, present, and future in Mumbai
5. La Duchère, Lyon, France:
an over-researched place that ignores itself
6. Research has killed the
Israeli-Palestinian conflict: navigating the over-researched field of the
West Bank
7. Overlooked cities and under researched Bharatpur, Nepal
8. When
over-researchedness is invisibilised in bibliographic databases: insights
from a case study about the Arctic region
9. Confessions of an academic
tourist: reflections on accessibility, trust, and research ethics in the
Grandhotel Cosmopolis
10. Locating climate change research: the privileges
and pitfalls of choosing over- and under-researched places
Cat Button is a senior lecturer in the School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape at Newcastle University, UK. She creates interdisciplinary and international research on the global challenges of water. She is currently a co-investigator on two UKRI GCRF Hubs: Water Security and Sustainable Development and Living Deltas.
Gerald Taylor Aiken is a research associate at the Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research (LISER) and a fellow at the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society. He researches the role of community in pursuing low-carbon futures, particularly how community is used to understand, value, and relate to the environment.
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