Stories from the field : a guide to navigating fieldwork in political science / edited by Peter Krause and Ora Szekely.

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Published: New York : Columbia University Press, [2020]
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Other Authors:
Krause, Peter, 1979- (Editor)
Szekely, Ora (Editor)
Subjects:
Political science > Research > Methodology.
Political science > Fieldwork.
Format: Electronic eBook
Stories from the field : a guide to navigating fieldwork in political science /
Table of Contents:
  • 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, by Ian S. Lustick
  • 2. Cooking Soup and Killing Chickens: Navigating Gender and Food-as-Fieldwork in West Africa, by Zoe Marks
  • 3. Recite! Interpretive Fieldwork for Positivists, by Richard A. Nielsen
  • Part II. Designing Your Research and Deciding Where to Go
  • 4. Fieldwork by Decree, Not by Design, by Stathis N. Kalyvas
  • 5. Conducting 1,500 Surveys in New York City (With Great Uncertainty and a Limited Budget), by Christina M. Greer
  • 6. Hezbollah Will Take Your Data: How to Plan for Research Among Insurgents, by Krista E. Wiegand
  • 7. When the Linguistic Lightweight Goes Abroad: Relying on Sharp Students by Stephen M. Saideman
  • 8. Navigating Data Collection in War Zones, by Fotini Christia
  • Part III. Make a Plan . . . Then Be Ready to Toss It
  • 9. Let Go and Let Ali, by Nadya Hajj
  • 10. Be Prepared (To Go Off Script), by Daniel N. Posner
  • 11. Radio Gaga: Evolving Field Experiments in Mali, by Kristin Michelitch
  • 12. Crossed Wires: Interviewing the Wrong People, by Bethany Lacina
  • 13. "You Don't Know What You're Getting Into": Dealing with Dishonesty in the Field, by Matthew Franklin Cancian and Kristin E. Fabbe
  • 14. Successful Fieldwork for the Fieldwork-Hater, by Amelia Hoover Green
  • Part IV. Creatively Collecting Data and Evidence
  • 15. How to Interview a Terrorist, by Jessica Stern
  • 16. Stumbling Around in the Archives, by Marc Trachtenberg
  • 17. Details in the Doodles: Documenting Covert Action, by Lindsey A. O'Rourke
  • 18. My Stint as a Ukrainian Taxi Driver, by Keith Darden
  • 19. Conducting Fieldwork in a Virtual Space: Exploring ISIS's Encrypted Messaging on Telegram, by Mia Bloom and Ayse Lokmanoglu
  • 20. All the Signs Are There: Incidental Discoveries During Fieldwork on Gender Discrimination in Russia, by Valerie Sperling
  • 21. Learning from Foreign Colleagues, by Robert Ross
  • Part V. Developing Local Knowledge
  • 22. On Field-Being, by Wendy Pearlman
  • 23. Fieldwork on Foot, by Paul Staniland
  • 24. The Onion Principle, by David D. Laitin
  • 25. The Intoxication of Fieldwork: Obtaining Authorizations in Burkina Faso, by John F. McCauley
  • 26. Field Research and Security in a Collapsed State, by Will Reno
  • 27. Building Field Networks in the Era of Big Data, by Amaney Jamal
  • Part VI. Seeing and Being Seen: Identity in the Field
  • 28. Researching an Old Civil War Close to Home, by Laia Balcells
  • 29. Positionality and Subjectivity in Field Research, by Enze Han
  • 30. Race and the Study of a Racial Democracy, by Melissa Nobles.

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