Fieldwork in Transforming Societies: Understanding Methodology from Experience

Clark, E.; Michailova, S.

This book discusses the personal and professional challenges of conducting fieldwork in the difficult, sometimes threatening contexts of the transforming societies of post-socialist Europe and China. Field research is a distinctly human effort and the social relationships between researchers, third parties and respondents directly affect the quality of research findings. With unusual frankness, the authors share their personal field experiences and discuss both the imaginative strategies they have devised to cope with problems and the methodological lessons they have learned.

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Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 2004-04-30

Format: Hardcover

ISBN-13: 9781403904287

DOI: 10.1057/9780230522701

Dimensions: 216cm x140cm

Pages: 196