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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 fieldwork 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' disciplines and fields, the diversity of geographical locations and their differing themes. Its chapters record a swath of experience, from choosing the research themes and hypotheses through to academic presentations and publications, shedding light on an area academic research 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.
List of contents
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 approach's 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
About the author
Louis Augustin-Jean is Senior Lecturer, Department of Political Science, Public Administration and Development Studies, University of Malaya, Malaysia.
Summary
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.
