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Research Beyond Borders

Multidisciplinary Reflections

von: Lise-Hélène Smith, Anjana Narayan, Mark Carey, Kristen Conway-Gomez, Jack Fong, Sami Hanna, Cecily Jones, Virginie Magnat, Shweta Majumdar Adur, Wiline Pangle, Mónica Ruiz-Caseres, Rebecca Sammel, Mustafa Sever, David Del Testa
48,99 €
Verlag:	Lexington Books
Format:	EPUB
Veröffentl.:	28.12.2011
ISBN/EAN:	9780739143575
Sprache:	englisch
Anzahl Seiten:	234

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Titelbeschreibung

This collection draws insights from an interdisciplinary group of scholars who specialize in diverse methods ranging from ethnography, archival research, and oral histories, to quantitative data analysis and experiments used in the social sciences and humanities to reflect on the empirical, methodological, and practical implications of conducting research beyond one’s national borders. The goal of this book is to help researchers contemplate existing orientations that dominate current research processes and consider the need for transnational multidisciplinary practices that remain aware of the inequalities which continually inform research practices. With this focus, this collection is also a resourceful initiative that seeks to share experiences as well as extract key ideas and approaches likely to overlap or resonate in different disciplines.

Titelkurzbeschreibung

This collection draws insights from an interdisciplinary group of scholars specializing in diverse methods used in the social sciences and humanities to reflect on the empirical, methodological, and practical implications of conducting research beyond one’s national borders. This book seeks to help researchers consider the need for transnational multidisciplinary practices that remain aware of the inequalities that continually inform current or dominant research practices.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments Introduction: Onto the Frontlines Part I: Dialogues Chapter 1: History Lessons from an Indochinese Diary David Del Testa Chapter 2: Beyond the Archives: A Practical Guide for Ethical Research in Latin America Mark Carey Chapter 3: Studying Wild Spotted Hyenas in Kenya: Challenges and Implications Wiline Pangle Part II: Insecurities Chapter 4: Methodological and Positional Considerations of Crisis Field Research: The Karen Struggle against the Military Regimes of Burma Jack Fong Chapter 5: Building Trust, Enhancing Research: Carrying out Fieldwork in Namibia Mónica Ruiz-Casares Chapter 6: Conducting Cross-Cultural Research on Turtles in Bolivia Implications for Quantitative Data Collection Kristen Conway-Gomez Part III: Encumbrances Chapter 7: “You can’t bring a child in here, this is a place where people come to do serious research work!”: Negotiating Lone Motherhood And Fieldworker Identities Cecily Jones Chapter 8: Serendipitous Treasures: Rethinking Archival Research in the 21st Century Rebecca Sammel Chapter 9: Negotiating the Politics of Conducting Research On Widows in India Shweta Majumdar Part IV: Crossroads Chapter 10: Performative Approaches to Interdisciplinary and Cross-Cultural Research Virginie Magnat Chapter 11: Counter-Movement: Reconfiguring the Location of Research with Researchers from Abroad Sami Hanna and Mustafa Sever Chapter 12: Back from the Field: Positionality, Methodology, and Practice Lise-Hélène Smith and Anjana Narayan Bibliography Index About the Contributors

Autorenportrait

Anjana Narayan is an assistant professor at California State Polytechnic University Pomona. Her areas of interest include ethnicity, migration, and gender. She is the co-author of Living our Religions: Hindu and Muslim South Asian-American Women Narrate Their Experiences (Kumarian Press 2009). She is a recipient of the American Sociological Association Section on Asia and Asian America 2010 ‘Early Career Award’. She also holds a postgraduate degree in Social Work from the Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS), Mumbai (India). She has been associated with a range of innovative initiatives in the field of women and development in India. Lise-Hélène Smith is Assistant Professor of World Literature at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona. Her areas of interest include exile, hybridity, and migration as linked to race and gender in the Southeast Asian diaspora as well as in Francophone, and colonial/postcolonial literatures. She is currently working on a book project on the aesthetics of representation in Vietnamese diasporic literature from North America and France.