This international, edited collection brings together personal accounts from researchers working in and on conflict and explores the roles of emotion, violence, uncertainty, identity and positionality within the process of doing research, as well as the complexity of methodological choices. It highlights the researchers’ own subjectivity and presents a nuanced view of conflict research that goes beyond the ‘messiness’ inherent in the process of research in and on violence. It addresses the uncomfortable spaces of conflict research, the potential for violence of research itself and the need for deeper reflection on these issues. This powerful book opens up spaces for new conversations about the realities of conflict research. These critical self-reflections and honest accounts provide important insights for any scholar or practitioner working in similar environments.
Author(s): Althea-Maria Rivas, Brendan Ciarán Browne
Publisher: Policy Press
Year: 2018
Language: English
Pages: 256
City: Bristol
Copyright Page
Acknowledgements
Notes on the editors and contributors
Foreword
Introduction
1 Conducting unleashing interviews where control means life or death
2 Qualitative research in the shadow of violent conflict
Vignette 1: The play I could not publish
3 Ambivalent reflections on violence and peacebuilding: Activist research in Croatia and the wider post-Yugoslav space
4 Intervention, autonomy and power in polarised societies
Vignette 2: Packing for Kabul
5 Formidable fieldwork: Experiences of a lesbian researcher in post-conflict Northern Ireland
6 Insider-outsider reflections on terrorism research in the coastal region of Kenya
Vignette 3: Thinking about race and gender in conflict research
7 Bodies of cyberwar: Violence and knowledge beyond corporeality
8 Fields of insecurity: Responding to flows of information
Vignette 4: Visual ethnographic encounters and silence in post-conflict Banda Aceh
9 Writing the wrongs: Keeping diaries and reflective practice
10 Abetting atrocities? Reporting the perspectives of perpetrators in research on violence
11 Empathy as a critical methodological tool in peace research
Vignette 5: The limits of a part-time political ethnographer
Index
