Stories from the field : a guide to navigating fieldwork in political science /

"Known as a field of quantitative measurement and theoretical debate, political science is also a field where researchers draw increasingly on in-person fieldwork. This book presents a collection of 35 field research stories from scholars of political science from a range of subfields, ranks, a...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Krause, Peter, 1979- (Editor ), Szekely, Ora (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Columbia University Press, [2020]
Temas:
Political science > Research > Methodology.
Political science > Fieldwork.
POLITICAL SCIENCE / Comparative Politics.
Political science > Research > Methodology
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Intro
  • Table of Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: Learning Through Stories, by Peter Krause and Ora Szekely
  • Part I. Welcome to the Field
  • 1. Fieldwork and Emotions / Ian S. Lustick
  • 2. Cooking Soup and Killing Chickens: Navigating Gender and Food-as-Fieldwork in West Africa / Zoe Marks
  • 3. Recite! Interpretive Fieldwork for Positivists / Richard A. Nielsen
  • Part II. Designing Your Research and Deciding Where to Go
  • 4. Fieldwork by Decree, Not by Design / Stathis N. Kalyvas
  • 5. Conducting 1,500 Surveys in New York City (With Great Uncertainty and a Limited Budget) / Christina M. Greer
  • 6. Hezbollah Will Take Your Data: How to Plan for Research Among Insurgents / Krista E. Wiegand
  • 7. When the Linguistic Lightweight Goes Abroad: Relying on Sharp Students / Stephen M. Saideman
  • 8. Navigating Data Collection in War Zones / Fotini Christia
  • Part III. Make a Plan . . . Then Be Ready to Toss It
  • 9. Let Go and Let Ali / Nadya Hajj
  • 10. Be Prepared (To Go Off Script) / Daniel N. Posner
  • 11. Radio Gaga: Evolving Field Experiments in Mali / Kristin Michelitch
  • 12. Crossed Wires: Interviewing the Wrong People / Bethany Lacina
  • 13. "You Don't Know What You're Getting Into": Dealing with Dishonesty in the Field / Matthew Franklin Cancian and Kristin E. Fabbe
  • 14. Successful Fieldwork for the Fieldwork-Hater / Amelia Hoover Green
  • Part IV. Creatively Collecting Data and Evidence
  • 15. How to Interview a Terrorist / Jessica Stern
  • 16. Stumbling Around in the Archives / Marc Trachtenberg
  • 17. Details in the Doodles: Documenting Covert Action / Lindsey A. O'Rourke
  • 18. My Stint as a Ukrainian Taxi Driver / Keith Darden
  • 19. Conducting Fieldwork in a Virtual Space: Exploring ISIS's Encrypted Messaging on Telegram / Mia Bloom and Ayse Lokmanoglu
  • 20. All the Signs Are There: Incidental Discoveries During Fieldwork on Gender Discrimination in Russia / Valerie Sperling
  • 21. Learning from Foreign Colleagues / Robert Ross
  • Part V. Developing Local Knowledge
  • 22. On Field-Being / Wendy Pearlman
  • 23. Fieldwork on Foot / Paul Staniland
  • 24. The Onion Principle / David D. Laitin
  • 25. The Intoxication of Fieldwork: Obtaining Authorizations in Burkina Faso / John F. McCauley
  • 26. Field Research and Security in a Collapsed State / Will Reno
  • 27. Building Field Networks in the Era of Big Data / Amaney Jamal
  • Part VI. Seeing and Being Seen: Identity in the Field
  • 28. Researching an Old Civil War Close to Home / Laia Balcells
  • 29. Positionality and Subjectivity in Field Research / Enze Han
  • 30. Race and the Study of a Racial Democracy / Melissa Nobles
  • 31. "Why Are You Interested In That?": Studying Racial Inequality in the United States From the Outside / Desmond King
  • 32. Navigating Born and Chosen Identities in Fieldwork / Peter Krause
  • Part VII. Being Ethically Accountable
  • 33. On Research That "Matters" / Erica Chenoweth
  • 34. The Field Is Everywhere / Zachariah Cherian Mampilly
  • 35. Things Change: Protecting Yourself and Your Sources In Uncertain Times / Marc Lynch
  • 36. Ethnography With Extremists: Living In a Fascist Militia / Alessandro Orsini
  • 37. Building Trust With Ex-Insurgents / Emil Aslan Souleimanov
  • 38. On Being Seen / Ora Szekely
  • Part VIII. Staying Safe and Healthy
  • 39. Conducting Safe Fieldwork on Violence and Peace / Sarah Zukerman Daly
  • 40. Your Safety and Theirs: Interviewing Sex-Traffickers / Carla B. Abdo-Katsipis
  • 41. Shingles on the Campaign Trail / Ravi Perry
  • 42. Drink the Tea / Vipin Narang
  • One Last Thing Before You Go . . .
  • Conclusion: What Does It Mean To Do Fieldwork? / Peter Krause and Ora Szekely.

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