The 'Tribal Politics' of Field Research: A Reflection on Power and Partiality in 21st-Century Warzones
| Autor: | Romain Malejacq, Dipali Mukhopadhyay |
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| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
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021110 strategic
defence & security studies Virtue Underline media_common.quotation_subject 05 social sciences 0211 other engineering and technologies Environmental ethics Impartiality 02 engineering and technology 16. Peace & justice 0506 political science Power (social and political) Intervention (law) Politics If and only if Law Political Science and International Relations 050602 political science & public administration Field research Sociology Institute for Management Research media_common |
| Zdroj: | Perspectives on Politics, 14, 4, pp. 1011-1028 Perspectives on Politics, 14, 1011-1028 Perspectives on Politics |
| ISSN: | 1537-5927 |
| DOI: | 10.1017/S1537592716002899 |
| Popis: | Contains fulltext : 162896.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Closed access) Can fieldwork still be done in today’s most violent warzones? We contend that long-held methodological principles about power and impartiality do not hold in today’s conflict-ridden environments. Research of this kind can still be pursued, but only if the scholar’s place is reconceived as one of limited power and unavoidable partiality. We argue that those still able to do fieldwork in sites of increasing danger do so by virtue of building their own ‘tribes,’ forming and joining different social micro-systems to collect data and, in some cases, survive. Field research must, therefore, be recognized as its own form of foreign intervention. In considering the future of political science research in the most challenging war-torn settings, we examine the risks and opportunities that accompany ‘tribal politics’ of this kind and underline the importance of reflecting on our own positionality in the process of knowledge production. |
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