Doing Fieldwork in the Global South (UCRSEA Partnership Project)
Thursday, November 9th, 2017
| Date | Time | Location |
|---|---|---|
| Thursday, November 9, 2017 | 2:00PM - 4:00PM | Seminar Room 208N, 1 Devonshire Place |
Description
Fieldwork is one of the most thrilling, stimulating, yet challenging part of researching in geography and in social sciences. Speakers in this seminar will shift the focus away from what they found towards how they found it. Data is not given. It is produced in an empirical context through specific methods. Presenters will talk about their specific conditions of data collection in the Global South, and how they dealt with ‘the making of a field research’ – including, negotiating access to one’s field, dealing with language issues, managing relationships with interviewees, overcoming ineluctable misunderstandings with assistants and respondents, and drinking the unavoidable countless cups of bitter green tea. The presenters will reflect upon each of their field research carried out as undergraduate students, PhD students, and postdoctoral fellows.
Everyone is welcome.
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