For experienced and inexperienced researchers and practitioners alike, this engaging book opens up new perspectives on conducting fieldwork in the Global South.
Following an inter-disciplinary and inter-generational approach, Understanding Global Development brings into dialogue reflections on fieldwork experiences by leading scholars along with accounts from early career researchers. Contributions are organised around six key issues:
- Meaningful participation in fieldwork
- Working in dangerous environments
- Gendered experiences of fieldwork
- Researching elites
- Conducting fieldwork with marginalised people
- Fieldwork in development practice.
The experience-led discussion of each of the topics conveys a sense of what it actually feels like to be out in the field and provides readers with useful insights and practical advice. A relational framework highlights issues relating to power, identity and ethics in development fieldwork, and encourages reflection on how researcher engagement with the field shapes our understanding of global development.
Table of Content
Chapter 1: Global Development Fieldwork: A Relational Perspective – Gordon Crawford, Lena J. Kruckenberg, Nicholas Loubere and Rosemary Morgan
Section I: Encountering the Field
Chapter 2: Liberating Development Inquiry: Freedom, Openness and Participation in Fieldwork – Robert Chambers and Nicholas Loubere
Chapter 3: Democracy of the Ground? Encountering Elite Domination During Fieldwork – Ashish Shah
Chapter 4: Combining Participatory Tools with Ethnography in Rural Cambodia – Sarah Milne
Section II: Gender and Fieldwork
Chapter 5: Gender is not a Noun, It’s an Adjective: Using Gender as a Lens within Development Research – Ruth Pearson and Rosemary Morgan
Chapter 6: Encounters with Diversity: Reflecting on Different Perceptions of Gender in the Field – Johanna Bergström
Chapter 7: Gendered Agency in Constrained Circumstances: Researching Women Selling Sex in Kenya – Egle Cesnulyte
Section III: Fieldwork at the Margins
Chapter 8: On the Margins of World Society: Working with Impoverished, Excluded and Marginalised People – Joanna Pfaff-Czarnecka and Lena J. Kruckenberg
Chapter 9: Encounters at the Margins: Situating the Researcher Under Conditions of Aid – Swetha Rao Dhananka
Chapter 10: Marginalisation(s) at the Margins: Studying Identity, Ethnicity and Conflict in Rural Bolivia – Lorenza B. Fontana
Section IV: Engaging with ‘Elite’ Actors
Chapter 11: Encounters with the Powerful: Researching Elites – Jean Grugel and Rosemary Morgan
Chapter 12: The Ups and Downs of ‘Studying Up’: Researching Elites in China – John Osburg
Chapter 13: The Nature of Power in Elite Interviews: Researching Environmental Politics in the Southern Cone of South America – Karen M. Siegel
Section V: Danger in the Field
Chapter 14: Under Threat: Working in Dangerous Environments – Jenny Pearce and Nicholas Loubere
Chapter 15: Perceiving Threats to Health in the Field: Researching Zoonotic Diseases at the Human-Animal Interface – Scott Naysmith
Chapter 16: Children in the Streets: Activism and Representation in Dangerous Fields – Nelly Ali
Section VI: Development in Theory and Practice
Chapter 17: Beyond the Ivory Tower: Researching Development Practice – David Mosse and Lena J. Kruckenberg
Chapter 18: Multipositionality in the ‘Field’ – Kathy Dodworth
Chapter 19: Irrelevance Dressed as Success?: Dis-spirited Reflections on Knowledge-based Development – Lata Narayanaswamy
Chapter 20: Towards a Relational Understanding of Development Research – Gordon Crawford, Lena J. Kruckenberg, Nicholas Loubere and Rosemary Morgan
About the author
Rosemary Morgan is an Assistant Scientist at Johns Hopkins’ Bloomberg School of Public Health on the project ‘Research in Gender and Ethics (Rin Gs): Building Stronger Health Systems’. Prior to joining Johns Hopkins University, Rosemary was a Lecturer in Global Health Policy for the Global Public Health Unit at the University of Edinburgh, and a Research and Teaching Fellow at the Nuffield Centre for International Health and Development at the University of Leeds, where she worked on two international health projects: ‘Health System Stewardship and Regulation in Vietnam, India and China’ (HESVIC); and the ‘Consortium for Health Policy and Systems Analysis in Africa’ (CHEPSAA). She holds a Ph.D. in International Health and Development from the University of Leeds, an M.Sc. in Policy Studies from the University of Edinburgh, and a B.A. in Sociology from the University of British Columbia.
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