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Index
Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Learning Through Stories
I. Welcome to the Field
1. Fieldwork and Emotions
2. Cooking Soup and Killing Chickens: Navigating Gender and Food-as-Fieldwork in West Africa
3. Recite! Interpretive Fieldwork for Positivists
II. Designing Your Research and Deciding Where to Go
4. Fieldwork by Decree, Not by Design
5. Conducting 1,500 Surveys in New York City (With Great Uncertainty and a Limited Budget)
6. Hezbollah Will Take Your Data: How to Plan for Research Among Insurgents
7. When the Linguistic Lightweight Goes Abroad: Relying on Sharp Students
8. Navigating Data Collection in War Zones
III. Make a Plan … Then Be Ready to Toss It
9. Let Go and Let Ali
10. Be Prepared (To Go Off Script)
11. Radio Gaga: Evolving Field Experiments in Mali
12. Crossed Wires: Interviewing the Wrong People
13. “You Don’t Know What You’re Getting Into”: Dealing with Dishonesty in the Field
14. Successful Fieldwork for the Fieldwork-Hater
IV. Creatively Collecting Data and Evidence
15. How to Interview a Terrorist
16. Stumbling Around in the Archives
17. Details in the Doodles: Documenting Covert Action
18. My Stint as a Ukrainian Taxi Driver
19. Conducting Fieldwork in a Virtual Space: Exploring ISIS’s Encrypted Messaging on Telegram
20. All the Signs Are There: Incidental Discoveries During Fieldwork on Gender Discrimination in Russia
21. Learning from Foreign Colleagues
V. Developing Local Knowledge
22. On Field-Being
23. Fieldwork on Foot
24. The Onion Principle
25. The Intoxication of Fieldwork: Obtaining Authorizations in Burkina Faso
26. Field Research and Security in a Collapsed State
27. Building Field Networks in the Era of Big Data
VI. Seeing and Being Seen: Identity in the Field
28. Researching an Old Civil War Close to Home
29. Positionality and Subjectivity in Field Research
30. Race and the Study of a Racial Democracy
31. “Why Are You Interested in That?”: Studying Racial Inequality in the United States from the Outside
32. Navigating Born and Chosen Identities in Fieldwork
VII. Being Ethically Accountable
33. On Research That “Matters”
34. The Field Is Everywhere
35. Things Change: Protecting Yourself and Your Sources in Uncertain Times
36. Ethnography with Extremists: Living in a Fascist Militia
37. Building Trust with Ex-Insurgents
38. On Being Seen
VIII. Staying Safe and Healthy
39. Conducting Safe Fieldwork on Violence and Peace
40. Your Safety and Theirs: Interviewing Sex-Traffickers
41. Shingles on the Campaign Trail
42. Drink the Tea
One Last Thing Before You Go …
Conclusion: What Does It Mean to Do Fieldwork?
Index
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