Dangerous fieldwork' re-examined: the question of researcher subject position

This article takes two examples of trying to collect fieldwork data in dangerous or difficult circumstances in Bali and uses them to explore some issues central to qualitative research. These issues include shifting researcher subject positions in qualitative sociology approaches, and the coherence...

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Published inQualitative research : QR Vol. 2; no. 3; pp. 363 - 386
Main Author Nilan, Pamela
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Thousand Oaks, CA Sage Publications 01.12.2002
Subjects
Bali
Data collection
Error of Measurement
Field work
Fieldwork
Indonesia
Methodology (Data Collection)
Objectivity
Qualitative analysis
Qualitative Methods
Research methods
Research workers
Researcher Subject Relations
Risk
Safety
fieldwork
subject position
control
risk
reflexivity
ethics
objectivity
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Summary:This article takes two examples of trying to collect fieldwork data in dangerous or difficult circumstances in Bali and uses them to explore some issues central to qualitative research. These issues include shifting researcher subject positions in qualitative sociology approaches, and the coherence and usefulness of data collected in chaotic or risky circumstances. Methodological practices such as reflexivity are considered, as well as the task of writing research accounts up from messy and chaotic data sets. It is concluded that data collected at moments of fieldwork crisis may not be particularly useful, except as a cultural reminder of the insider/outsider status of the researcher, and to inform more productive factual data collected after the event.
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ISSN:1468-7941
1741-3109
DOI:10.1177/146879410200200305