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Record Nr.

UNINA9910787064403321

Titolo

Research beyond borders : multidisciplinary reflections / / edited by Lise-Hélène Smith and Anjana Narayan ; contributors, Kelly Shimabuku [and fourteen others]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lanham, Maryland ; ; Plymouth, England : , : Lexington Books, , 2012

©2012

ISBN

0-7391-4356-5

0-7391-4357-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (261 p.)

Disciplina

001.4

Soggetti

Social sciences - Research - Methodology

Humanities - Research - Methdology

Qualitative research - Methodology

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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



About the ContributorsIndex

Sommario/riassunto

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.