The companion to peace and conflict fieldwork
Intro -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- Abbreviations -- List of Figures -- Chapter 1 Introduction -- Security -- Ethics -- Local Actors -- Personal -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 2 How I Dealt with My Ethics Committee, and Survived -- In Search of Ethics Clearance: Three Real-Life Challenges -- How I Dealt with My Ethics Committee-What I Learned -- Improving Ethics Committees -- References -- Chapter 3 When Humans Become Data -- Situating the Analysis: Who Has to "Do" Ethics? -- Becoming "the data" -- Temporalities and Spaces of Research, Risk, and Violence -- Funding, Power, and Reorienting Transparency -- Conclusion: Broadening the Conversation -- References -- Chapter 4 Researching Over-Researched Societies -- Introduction -- What Is An 'Over-Researched' Society? -- Why Are Some Societies More Researched Than Others? -- Concluding Comments -- References -- Chapter 5 Preparing for Fieldwork Interviews -- Introduction -- Deciding Whether to Conduct Interviews -- Preparing the Research Context -- Preparing the Actual Interviews -- Preparing the Self -- Conclusion: Fieldwork Interviews as Patchwork of the Possible -- References -- Chapter 6 Being Indiana Jones in IR: The Pressure to Do 'Real' Fieldwork -- Introduction -- Fieldwork as Connection -- Fieldwork as Heroism -- In and Out of the Field -- Conclusion: War Stories and Rigorous Research -- References -- Chapter 7 Interview Locations -- Interview Locations and Context: The Power of Place -- The Interview as Research Context -- What Actually Happens in Interviews -- Donors, Politicians and Power: The Politics of 'I'm Really Important' -- Reading a Room-What a Participant's Choice Can Tell You -- You Are a Guest as Well as an Interviewer -- It Can All Go Horribly Wrong-Discomfort and Danger -- The Absence of Location: Interviewing by Remote Control.