Fieldwork in Transforming Societies: Understanding Methodology from Experience

✍ Scribed by Ed Clark, Snejina Michailova

• Year: 2004
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 207
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 6
List of Tables and Figures......Page 7
Abbreviations......Page 8
Notes on the Contributors......Page 9
1 Doing Research in Transforming Contexts: Themes and Challenges......Page 12
2 Identities, Roles and Qualitative Research in Central and Eastern Europe......Page 30
3 Who is Observing Whom? Fieldwork Roles and Ambiguities in Organisational Case Study Research......Page 50
4 Uncovering the Communist and Capitalist Shadow: Developing Relational Forms of Inquiry and Writing......Page 68
5 Constructing Enterprise Level Knowledge: Exploratory Methods and Transforming Contexts......Page 89
6 Researching Organisations in Hungary: Practical Experience and Methodological Reflections......Page 108
7 Transformation Research in East Germany: Institutions, Knowledge and Power......Page 125
8 Behind the Bamboo Curtain: Problems and Pitfalls in Researching Australian Expatriates in China......Page 147
9 Fieldwork in a Low-Trust (Post-)Communist Society......Page 168
Bibliography......Page 188
C......Page 202
H......Page 203
N......Page 204
R......Page 205
S......Page 206
W......Page 207