1: Doing fieldwork in interpretive research: encounters online, offline, and in the spaces in-between
Interpretive fieldwork benefits from arts-based and other material methods, which can be employed together with more standard social-scientific methods such as interviews, conversations, and observations to explore meaning-making beyond, or to expand, linguistic representation. The authors draw on t...
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| description | Interpretive fieldwork benefits from arts-based and other material methods, which can be employed together with more standard social-scientific methods such as interviews, conversations, and observations to explore meaning-making beyond, or to expand, linguistic representation. The authors draw on their experiences of conducting in-person fieldwork with former guerrilla fighters in Colombia and fieldwork ‘by proxy’ with research assistants among conflict-affected communities in Myanmar, as well as online research with practitioners of unarmed civilian protection in different countries, respectively. They used conversational and narrative interviews, as well as textile-making, drawing, photography, and objects as methods of interpretive research. This chapter explores the role of fieldwork in interpretive research, considering offline (in-person and ‘proxy’) as well as online fieldwork forms and settings. The authors discuss the possibilities, limitations, and challenges of these different forms of interpretive fieldwork and give advice on how to navigate them in practice. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-1630862025-07-25T13:34:17Z 1: Doing fieldwork in interpretive research: encounters online, offline, and in the spaces in-between de Guevara, Berit Bliesemann Ridden, Louise Interpretive research; Arts-based methods; Conflict-affected communities GPS JHBC Interpretive fieldwork benefits from arts-based and other material methods, which can be employed together with more standard social-scientific methods such as interviews, conversations, and observations to explore meaning-making beyond, or to expand, linguistic representation. The authors draw on their experiences of conducting in-person fieldwork with former guerrilla fighters in Colombia and fieldwork ‘by proxy’ with research assistants among conflict-affected communities in Myanmar, as well as online research with practitioners of unarmed civilian protection in different countries, respectively. They used conversational and narrative interviews, as well as textile-making, drawing, photography, and objects as methods of interpretive research. This chapter explores the role of fieldwork in interpretive research, considering offline (in-person and ‘proxy’) as well as online fieldwork forms and settings. The authors discuss the possibilities, limitations, and challenges of these different forms of interpretive fieldwork and give advice on how to navigate them in practice. Published 2025-07-25T13:34:15Z 2025-07-25T13:34:15Z 2025-07-17 chapter 9781035313990 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/163086 eng image/jpeg Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International https://www.e-elgar.com/shop/gbp/how-to-conduct-interpretive-research-9781035313983.html https://www.elgaronline.com/edcollchap-oa/book/9781035313990/chapter1.xml Edward Elgar Publishing Edward Elgar Publishing 10.4337/9781035313990.00008 10.4337/9781035313990.00008 01ceac28-75b4-492a-8eec-f9b98bc6b28c https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ 9781035313990 Edward Elgar Publishing Cheltenham, UK open access |
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| title | 1: Doing fieldwork in interpretive research: encounters online, offline, and in the spaces in-between |
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| topic | Interpretive research; Arts-based methods; Conflict-affected communities GPS JHBC |
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