Navigating Fieldwork in the Social Sciences: Stories of Danger, Risk and Reward

Intro -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- 1: Collecting Stories -- Why Risk? -- But What Is Risk, and How Is It Conceived? -- Getting the Stories -- Presenting the Stories -- The Structure -- References -- 2: Sex in the Academy/Sex in the Field: Bodies of Ethics in Activist Research -- What Does the 'Field' Mean to You? What Approaches Do You Use? -- And What Kinds of Spaces Did You Do Your Fieldwork In? What's It Like for You There? -- Were There Legal Risks That Came with the Ethnography or Interviews? -- What Kind of Things Were You Worried About Going into the Research? What Came to Fruition and Was It Expected or Unexpected? -- Has Anything Like That Happened to You? -- Did You Feel Like There Was Institutional Support, and What Gets You Through That? -- How Do You Deal with the Emotional Outcomes? How Do You Balance Those Multiple Roles as Sex Worker, Activist and Researcher? -- You Have So Many Things to Juggle! Do You Ever Sleep? -- What Is the Role of a Researcher, Given Your Concerns About How Knowledge Is Produced and Whose Voices Are Represented? -- What Are Some of the Challenges of Insider Research in Porn Studies, Being Part of the Communities You Are Studying? -- As a Lawyer and a Sex Worker, You Have Had Different Kinds of Contact with the Criminal Justice System, How Has That Affected Your Research and Your Fieldwork? -- How Did You Learn About All These Strategies That You Have Implemented? -- It's Clear That Your Research Is Underpinned and Guided by a Body of Ethics That Is Not Located in the Formal, Bureaucratic Ethics Process. You Have Also Mentioned a Number of Key Figures That You Have Learnt from Along the Way. Why Is This So Importa -- What Do You Wish Somebody Had Told You Before You Started Doing the Research That You've Done? And What Would You Like to See More Of? -- References.