Navigating field research in armed conflict settings

TY - CHAP

T1 - Navigating field research in armed conflict settings

AU - Shesterinina, Anastasia

PY - 2025/7/28

Y1 - 2025/7/28

N2 - This chapter considers unique challenges of field research in settings where armed conflict has taken place and/or is ongoing. It opens with a vignette from a personal gendered field experience that highlights the limits of trust with some research participants and trade-offs involved in navigating the risks to the researcher’s safety. Building on this experience, the chapter draws implications for researcher training on the kinds of practical concerns that researchers should consider in preparation for fieldwork, unanticipated dilemmas that can emerge during fieldwork and require decision-making in situ, and possible consequences of fieldwork in armed conflict settings, including vicarious trauma.

AB - This chapter considers unique challenges of field research in settings where armed conflict has taken place and/or is ongoing. It opens with a vignette from a personal gendered field experience that highlights the limits of trust with some research participants and trade-offs involved in navigating the risks to the researcher’s safety. Building on this experience, the chapter draws implications for researcher training on the kinds of practical concerns that researchers should consider in preparation for fieldwork, unanticipated dilemmas that can emerge during fieldwork and require decision-making in situ, and possible consequences of fieldwork in armed conflict settings, including vicarious trauma.

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=105010778351&partnerID=8YFLogxK

U2 - 10.4324/9781003404903-38

DO - 10.4324/9781003404903-38

M3 - Chapter

AN - SCOPUS:105010778351

SN - 9781032520186

SP - 259

EP - 266

BT - The Routledge Handbook of Field Research

A2 - Hammett, Daniel

A2 - Holmes, Naomi

PB - Taylor and Francis Ltd.

ER -