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The Palgrave Handbook of Social Fieldwork

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Editors:
  1. Nasir Uddin

    1. Department of Anthropology, University of Chittagong, Chittagong, Bangladesh

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  2. Alak Paul

    1. Department of Geography and Environmental Studies, University of Chittagong, Chittagong, Bangladesh

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  • Provides case studies on dealing with the practical, political and ethical issues of conducting immersive fieldwork
  • Explores the multi-disciplinary and cross-regional specificity of methodological issues in social science
  • Demonstrates the diversity of personal experience, different locations, and varied topics on research undertaken

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Table of contents (25 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxv
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  2. Methodological Issues in Social Research: Experience from the Twenty-First Century

    • Nasir Uddin
    Pages 1-20

  3. Fieldwork in Challenging Social Settings

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 21-21
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    2. Research in a Moving Field: Doing In-aqua Research in Blue Space Settings

      • Ronan Foley
      Pages 23-36

    3. Researching Garo Death Rites

      • Erik de Maaker
      Pages 37-52

    4. Navigating the Tyrannies of Fieldwork: A Nigerian Experience

      • Adebayo Adewusi
      Pages 53-68

    5. Trial by Fire: Reflections on Fieldwork in Nagaland, Northeast India

      • Debojyoti Das
      Pages 69-82
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About this book

This handbook offers epistemologically and ontologically important personal accounts of academic and professional researchers having long-term intensive, comprehensive and ethnographic fieldwork in various social settings and versatile regional contexts across the globe. The accounts are cross-disciplinary including anthropology, sociology, geography, political sciences, gender studies, forestry and environmental studies, economics, and international relations. They are also trans-regional, covering the globe including South Asia, Southeast Asia, Africa, Europe, Latin America and North America. The book offers a comprehensive portrait of multifaceted challenges that social researchers experience while doing fieldwork in various social settings. The accounts provide both challenges of doing fieldwork in the 21st century and the ways how to address/redress them in the field by complying with the codes of ethics, and the politics of fieldwork. Readers will benefit from the handbook by understanding methodological issues from both disciplinary relevance and regional specificity across time and spaces.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Anthropology, University of Chittagong, Chittagong, Bangladesh

    Nasir Uddin

  • Department of Geography and Environmental Studies, University of Chittagong, Chittagong, Bangladesh

    Alak Paul

About the editors

Nasir Uddin is a cultural anthropologist based in Bangladesh and Professor of Anthropology at the University of Chittagong. He is the author of The Rohingya: An Ethnography of ‘Subhuman’ Life (2020) and Voices of the Rohingya People: A Case of Genocide, Ethnocide and ‘Subhuman’ Life (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022).

Alak Paul is Professor in the Department of Geography and Environmental Studies, at the University of Chittagong. He is the co-editor of Geography in Bangladesh: Concepts Methods and Applications (2019) and the author of HIV/AIDS in Bangladesh: Stigmatized People, Policy and Place (2020).

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: The Palgrave Handbook of Social Fieldwork

  • Editors: Nasir Uddin, Alak Paul

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-13615-3

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-13614-6Published: 15 April 2023

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-13617-7Published: 15 April 2024

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-13615-3Published: 14 April 2023

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXV, 462

  • Number of Illustrations: 27 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Anthropology, Social Sciences, general, Ethnography, Archaeology

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