Interview – Christoph Vogel
Christoph Vogel discusses his recent book on conflict minerals in Eastern Congo, the campaign against unethical mining and the challenges of fieldwork in conflict zones.
How Qualitative Fieldwork Can Help Understand Civil Wars
If a researcher can safely conduct fieldwork using relational approaches, carefully mitigating potential risks and vulnerabilities, it could be an invaluable exercise.
Interview – Katerina Dalacoura
Katerina Dalacoura considers civilisational and ideological developments in the MENA region, particularly in Turkey, as well as non-Western IR and the challenges of fieldwork.
Interview – Lydia Cole
Lydia Cole reflects on her fieldwork, affective failure and misrecognition, as well as her research using conflict textiles, encouraging the use of visual art and poetry in research.
Negotiations in the Field: Citizenship, Political Belonging and Appearance
It’s important to be aware that negotiations can be faced in the field before entering it and to know that such feelings of fear, failure, and discomfort are expected.
Reproducing the European Gaze Through Reflexivity: The Limits of Calling Out Failures
There is a need to problematise the notion of ‘failure’ through its reliance on and reproduction of reflexivity as a positioned practice advocated by scholars.
Fieldwork, Feelings and Failure to Be a (Proper) Security Researcher
Fieldwork is, among many other things, messy, and deeply frustrating and failure is unavoidable. The feelings this produces are shared by many researchers.
Fieldwork and the Coronavirus Pandemic
Research institutions could provide training programmes that addresses the issue of a global pandemic in the context of carrying out research related activities such as fieldwork.
Attuning to Alterity: From Depression to Fieldwork
I realised that thinking about the impact my condition has on my work enables me to objectify my mental states, detach myself from these experiences and understand them.
The Limits of Control? Conducting Fieldwork at the United Nations
We should strive for greater transparency in acknowledging the complexity of our fields, as well as the confusion our own situatedness can cause in the research process.
