{"title":"Unequal Research Relationships in Highly Insecure Places:","authors":"M. Bøås","doi":"10.2307/j.ctv12pnsgg.11","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv12pnsgg.11","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":179484,"journal":{"name":"Doing Fieldwork in Areas of International Intervention","volume":"2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-06-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127782157","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Positioning in an Insecure Field:","authors":"Maria-Louise Clausen","doi":"10.2307/j.ctv12pnsgg.17","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv12pnsgg.17","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":179484,"journal":{"name":"Doing Fieldwork in Areas of International Intervention","volume":"17 1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-06-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116775974","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Doing Fieldwork in Areas of International Intervention into Violent and Closed Contexts","authors":"Berit Bliesemann de Guevara, M. Bøås","doi":"10.2307/j.ctv12pnsgg.7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv12pnsgg.7","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter covers experiences of doing fieldwork. It talks about a gender-balanced group of field researchers at different stages of their careers that work in different countries around the world. It also analyzes how the field researchers did their fieldwork in areas of international intervention into violent conflict and/or illiberal states. The chapter provides an overview of the frank and critical accounts of the field researchers who have taken the courage to publicly reflect upon some of their mistakes and to name the dilemmas of fieldwork in violent and closed contexts. It draws attention to the personal reflections of the field researchers' practices, performances, and positionalities in the field, including their contributions to address questions currently discussed in related literatures.","PeriodicalId":179484,"journal":{"name":"Doing Fieldwork in Areas of International Intervention","volume":"22 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-06-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134244980","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Lifting the Burden? The Ethical Implications of Studying Exemplary, Not Pathological, Wartime Sexual Conduct","authors":"Angela Muvumba Sellström","doi":"10.2307/j.ctv12pnsgg.22","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv12pnsgg.22","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter examines Angela Muvumba Sellström's fieldwork and encounters with non-state armed groups in Burundi, South Africa, and Uganda that established sexual discipline among their commanders and foot-soldiers. It reflects on ethical dilemmas of conducting research on “non-cases” of wartime sexual violence among armed groups that have regulated sex in wartime conduct. It focuses on the non-use of sex as a weapon of war that may acquit armed groups from other human rights violations they may have committed. The chapter mentions some sexual-violence survivors who are unwittingly silenced by a certain research focus even after the armed groups have regulated sexual conduct. It analyzes the regulation of sexual conduct that may be based on the male leadership of the armed group rather than female sexual autonomy, which may foster entrenched gender inequalities in society.","PeriodicalId":179484,"journal":{"name":"Doing Fieldwork in Areas of International Intervention","volume":"208 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-06-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115546377","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Interpretivist Methods and Military Intervention Research: Using Interview Research to De-centre the ‘Intervener’","authors":"Casey McNeill","doi":"10.46692/9781529206913.003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.46692/9781529206913.003","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter covers the case of Casey McNeill's research on the US Africa Command (AFRICOM). It describes the mismatches that often exist between the intervention's official narrative of its purpose and the actual priorities and practices encountered in interviews at the headquarters. It also emphasizes how intervention research based on published material such as the intervening organization's self-descriptions, documents, and evaluations can be misguiding in understanding how staff do their day-to-day work. The chapter offers useful strategies on how to overcome challenges in interviews with the help of interpretivist methodologies. It also explains how interpretivist methodology influenced McNeill's interview research with personnel at the AFRICOM.","PeriodicalId":179484,"journal":{"name":"Doing Fieldwork in Areas of International Intervention","volume":"20 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-06-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134210929","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Interview as a Cultural Performance and the Value of Surrendering Control","authors":"M. Göransson","doi":"10.2307/j.ctv12pnsgg.10","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv12pnsgg.10","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter looks into Markus Göransson's reports from Tajikistan. It demonstrates how the mere use of the word “interview” could scare cautious non-elite research participants in violent and/or illiberal contexts away. It recounts Göransson's field research while being equipped with literature-based knowledge on how to conduct oral history interviews and secure the informed consent of interlocutors. The chapter explains how Göransson gathered data ad hoc, in informal, private, and often group settings, requiring flexibility and creativity on his behalf and a willingness to relinquish control of the process to some extent. It points out the deep affinities between the states' disciplining techniques and scientific research method.","PeriodicalId":179484,"journal":{"name":"Doing Fieldwork in Areas of International Intervention","volume":"26 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-06-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114472072","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Unequal Research Relationships in Highly Insecure Places: Of Fear, Funds and Friendship","authors":"M. Bøås","doi":"10.46692/9781529206913.005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.46692/9781529206913.005","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter examines violent contexts that equally represent specific challenges and threats to researchers and their collaborators and brokers. It offers a self-critical reflection on Morten Bøås's research with local associates in the highly insecure context of the Sahel. It also reveals how researchers from the Global North may wittingly or unwittingly incentivize associates to adopt risky strategies. The chapter looks at the center of Bøås's reflections, which includes the question of how friendship is shaped by the unequal power of relationships involved in North–South collaborations. It also describes the mixed bag of emotions experienced during fieldwork in a highly dangerous setting where researchers have more recently become the explicit target of some armed groups.","PeriodicalId":179484,"journal":{"name":"Doing Fieldwork in Areas of International Intervention","volume":"58 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-06-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122878533","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Shifting Identities, Policy Networks, and the Practical and Ethical Challenges of Gaining Access to the Field in Interventions","authors":"Roland Kostić","doi":"10.2307/j.ctv12pnsgg.8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv12pnsgg.8","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter explains interviews as an illustrative example of the effects that a violent or illiberal context can have on how informants or interviewees are accessed. It points out that what is shared in an interview is influenced in particular ways by certain contexts and on meta-data in interviews about war and mass violence. The chapter focuses on Roland Kostić, who shows how interviewing intervention elites brings about its own series of challenges and dilemmas. It discusses Kostić's interview-based research with international intervention elites in Bosnia and Herzegovina. It also shows how long-term research is crucial for opening the door to elite networks in a way that has allowed for behind-the-scene insights and information that are far beyond a formal expert interview situation.","PeriodicalId":179484,"journal":{"name":"Doing Fieldwork in Areas of International Intervention","volume":"51 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-06-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132373895","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Index","authors":"","doi":"10.2307/j.ctv12pnsgg.26","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv12pnsgg.26","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":179484,"journal":{"name":"Doing Fieldwork in Areas of International Intervention","volume":"14 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-06-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129985802","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}