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Researching Peace, Conflict, and Power in the Field Methodological Challenges and Opportunities
Title
Researching Peace, Conflict, and Power in the Field [electronic resource] : Methodological Challenges and Opportunities / edited by Yasemin Gülsüm Acar, Sigrun Marie Moss, Özden Melis Uluğ.
ISBN
9783030441135
Edition
1st ed. 2020.
Publication
Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2020.
Physical Description
1 online resource (IX, 383 p.) 12 illus.
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Summary
This edited volume offers useful resources for researchers conducting fieldwork in various global conflict contexts, bringing together a range of international voices to relay important methodological challenges and opportunities from their experiences. The book provides an extensive account of how people do conflict research in difficult contexts, critically evaluating what it means to do research in the field and what the role of the researcher is in that context. Among the topics discussed: Conceptualizing the interpreter in field interviews in post-conflict settings Data collection with indigenous people Challenges to implementation of social psychological interventions Researching children and young people’s identity and social attitudes Insider and outsider dynamics when doing research in difficult contexts Working with practitioners and local organizations Researching Peace, Conflict, and Power in the Field is a valuable guide for students and scholars interested in conflict research, social psychologists, and peace psychologists engaged in conflict-related fieldwork.
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Language
English
Added to Catalog
September 21, 2020
Series
Peace Psychology Book Series,
Contents
1. Research Team
1. Introduction
2. Conducting field research amid violence: Experiences from Colombia
3. Keepers of local know-how in conflict: Conversations between research assistant and researcher
4. Conceptualizing the interpreter in field interviews in post-conflict settings: Reflections from psychological research in Bosnia and Herzegovina
5. Doing research on Turkish-Armenian relations in Turkey, Armenia, and Diaspora as Turkish researchers: The challenges and opportunities of being an insider and outsider
6. Confronting Conflicting Attitudes about Racial Bias in the United States: How Communicator Identities Shape Audience Reception
2. Research Population
7. Data collection with indigenous people: Fieldwork experiences from Chile
8. On the borders: Research with refugees of conflict
9. Keeping the trust – challenges in embedding yourself in protest contexts
10. Conducting Field Research on Collective Victimhood in the Indian Subcontinent
11. Kurdish Alevis in the Turkish-Kurdish peace process: Reflections on conducting research in Turkey’s “buffer zone”
3. Practical Applications
12. Implementing Social Psychological Interventions: Challenges and Opportunities
13. Sense and Sensitivities: Researching children and young people’s identity and social attitudes in a divided society
14. The challenges and promises of using RCTs in conflict environments
4. Reflections and Meta-reflections
15. When research and experience merge: A reflexive assessment on studying peace in conflict zones
16. A reflection on the politics of knowledge production at South African universities: When black identity meets legacies of institutional racism
17. Being a wanderer, stranger, public enemy and a "useful idiot": A few personal remarks on performing and communicating psychological research in conflicted areas
18. Recovering the everyday in peacebuilding through reflexive praxis: An epistemic and methodological intervention
19. Concluding Remarks.
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