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Author Smith, Lise-Hélène

Title Research Beyond Borders : Multidisciplinary Reflections
Published Lanham : Lexington Books, 2011

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Description 1 online resource (261 pages)
Contents Research Beyond Borders; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Onto the Frontlines; Part I: Dialogues; 1 History Lessons from an Indochinese Diary; 2 From National Parks to National Archives: The Diplomacy of Research in Latin America; 3 Studying Wild Spotted Hyenas in Kenya: Challenges and Implications; Part II: Insecurities; 4 Methodological and Positional Considerations of Crisis Field Research: The Karen Revolution Example; 5 Building Trust, Enhancing Research: Carrying out Fieldwork in Namibia; 6 Cross-Cultural Research: Implications for Data Collection; Part III: Encumbrances
7 ""You can''t bring a child in here, this is a place where people come to do serious research work!"": Negotiating Lone Motherhood and Fieldworker Identities8 Serendipitous Treasures: Rethinking Archival Research in the Twenty-First Century; 9 Negotiating the Politics of Conducting Research On Widows in India; Part IV: Crossroads; 10 Performative Approaches to Interdisciplinary and Cross-Cultural Research; 11 Counter-Movement: Researchers from Abroad and the Reconfiguration of the Research Location; 12 Back from the Field: Positionality, Methodology, and Practice; Bibliography
Summary This collection draws insights from an interdisciplinary group of scholars specializing in diverse methods used in the social sciences and humanities to reflect on the empirical, methodological, and practical implications of conducting research beyond one's national borders. This book seeks to help researchers consider the need for transnational multidisciplinary practices that remain aware of the inequalities that continually inform current or dominant research practices
Notes About the ContributorsIndex
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Social sciences -- Research -- Methodology
Humanities -- Research -- Methdology
Qualitative research -- Methodology.
REFERENCE -- Questions & Answers.
Qualitative research -- Methodology
Social sciences -- Research -- Methodology
Form Electronic book
Author Narayan, Anjana
Carey, Mark
Conway-Gomez, Kristen
Fong, Jack
Hanna, Sami
Jones, Cecily
Magnat, Virginie
Majumdar Adur, Shweta
Pangle, Wiline
Ruiz-Caseres, Mónica
Sammel, Rebecca
Sever, Mustafa
Del Testa, David
ISBN 9780739143575
0739143573
1322158819
9781322158815