Doing Fieldwork in Areas of International Intervention: A Guide to Research in Violent and Closed Contexts

A much-needed guide to the realities of fieldwork in areas of conflict from those with first-hand experience, this is an invaluable tool that reflects on the work carried out, the problems and constraints encountered and the strategies developed to overcome them.

Using detailed insights from those with first-hand experience of conducting research in areas of international intervention and conflict, this handbook provides essential practical guidance for researchers and students embarking on fieldwork in violent, repressive and closed contexts.

Contributors detail their own experiences from areas including the Congo, Sudan, Yemen, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Myanmar, discussing their mistakes and hard-learned lessons. Divided into sections on issues of control and confusion, security and risk, distance and closeness and sex and sensitivity, they look at how to negotiate complex grey areas and raise important questions that intervention researchers need to consider before, during and after their time on the ground.