Researching Peace, Conflict, and Power in the Field
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-030-44112-8 (ISBN)
This edited volume offers useful resources for researchers conducting fieldwork in various global conflict contexts, bringing together a range of international voices to relay important methodological challenges and opportunities from their experiences. The book provides an extensive account of how people do conflict research in difficult contexts, critically evaluating what it means to do research in the field and what the role of the researcher is in that context.
Among the topics discussed:- Conceptualizing the interpreter in field interviews in post-conflict settings
- Data collection with indigenous people
- Challenges to implementation of social psychological interventions
- Researching children and young people's identity and social attitudes
- Insider and outsider dynamics when doing research in difficult contexts
- Working with practitioners and local organizations
Researching Peace, Conflict, and Power in the Field is a valuable guide for students and scholars interested in conflict research, social psychologists, and peace psychologists engaged in conflict-related fieldwork.
Yasemin Gülsüm Acar is a lecturer in the Department of Psychology at the University of Dundee. Her research focuses on collective action, political protest and its consequences, political solidarity, politicization, and intergroup conflict. Sigrun Marie Moss is an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Oslo. She has lived and worked in Sudan and Zanzibar, before doing research in both East Africa and the Horn of Africa. Her research focuses on political leadership, national identity strategies, collective action, gender equality, gendered diplomacy and intergroup conflict. Özden Melis Ulug is a Visiting Assistant Professor at Clark University. She completed her post-doctoral fellowship in the Psychology of Peace and Violence Program at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst in 2019. She received her PhD in Psychology from Jacobs University Bremen, Germany in 2016. Her areas of research interest include intergroup conflict, intergroup contact, collective action, and solidarity between groups.
1. Research Team.- 1. Introduction.- 2. Conducting field research amid violence: Experiences from Colombia.- 3. Keepers of local know-how in conflict: Conversations between research assistant and researcher.- 4. Conceptualizing the interpreter in field interviews in post-conflict settings: Reflections from psychological research in Bosnia and Herzegovina.- 5. Doing research on Turkish-Armenian relations in Turkey, Armenia, and Diaspora as Turkish researchers: The challenges and opportunities of being an insider and outsider.- 6. Confronting Conflicting Attitudes about Racial Bias in the United States: How Communicator Identities Shape Audience Reception.- 2. Research Population.- 7. Data collection with indigenous people: Fieldwork experiences from Chile.- 8. On the borders: Research with refugees of conflict.- 9. Keeping the trust - challenges in embedding yourself in protest contexts.- 10. Conducting Field Researchon Collective Victimhood in the Indian Subcontinent.- 11. Kurdish Alevis in the Turkish-Kurdish peace process: Reflections on conducting research in Turkey's "buffer zone".- 3. Practical Applications.- 12. Implementing Social Psychological Interventions: Challenges and Opportunities.- 13. Sense and Sensitivities: Researching children and young people's identity and social attitudes in a divided society.- 14. The challenges and promises of using RCTs in conflict environments.- 4. Reflections and Meta-reflections.- 15. When research and experience merge: A reflexive assessment on studying peace in conflict zones.- 16. A reflection on the politics of knowledge production at South African universities: When black identity meets legacies of institutional racism.- 17. Being a wanderer, stranger, public enemy and a "useful idiot": A few personal remarks on performing and communicating psychological research in conflicted areas.- 18. Recovering the everyday in peacebuilding through reflexive praxis: An epistemic and methodological intervention.- 19. Concluding Remarks.
| Erscheinungsdatum | 01.09.2020 |
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| Reihe/Serie | Peace Psychology Book Series |
| Zusatzinfo | IX, 383 p. 12 illus. |
| Verlagsort | Cham |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 155 x 235 mm |
| Gewicht | 751 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Psychoanalyse / Tiefenpsychologie |
| Schlagworte | Being an insider and outsider studying diaspora • Challenges and promises of RCTs in conflict enviro • Challenges and promises of RCTs in conflict environments • Collective action towards racial justice • Collective victimhood in the Indian subcontinent • Conducting field research in Colombia • Data collection with indigenous people • Decolonizing research in the Palestinian colonial • Decolonizing research in the Palestinian colonial context • Embedding yourself in protest contexts • Fieldwork experiences from Chile • How research findings might put scholars into dang • How research findings might put scholars into danger • Implementing Social Psychological Interventions • Peacebuilding through reflexive praxis • Peace research methods to study conflicts in China • Research with refugees of conflict • Studying peace in conflict zones • Working with an interpreter when researching in co • Working with an interpreter when researching in conflict • Young people's identity and attitudes in divided s • Young people’s identity and attitudes in divided society |
| ISBN-10 | 3-030-44112-1 / 3030441121 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-3-030-44112-8 / 9783030441128 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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