Call for papers: FIELD RESEARCH IN DIFFICULT CONTEXTS

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ENQUETER EN TERRAINS DIFFICILES
OBJETS TABOUS, LIEUX DANGEREUX, SUJETS SENSIBLES
Proposé par Sylvie Ayimpam, Magali Chelpi-Den Hamer, Jacky Bouju
IMAf UMR 8171, Aix—Marseille Université

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-Les difficultés d’accès au terrain.
-Sujets sensibles, objets tabous.
-L’enquête à distance et ses problèmes épistémologiques.
-La question de la sécurité.
-La question de l’objectivité et la fiabilité des données.
Les propositions d’article, en anglais ou en français (un titre et un résumé de 400 mots), sont à envoyer avant le 4 mai 2014 au secrétariat et un éditeur de la revue (civilisations@ulb.ac.be <mailto:civilisations@ulb.ac.be> / natacha.belang@ulb.ac;be <mailto:natacha.belang@ulb.ac;be>) ainsi qu’aux coordinateurs du dossier, Jacky Bouju (bouju@mmsh.univ <mailto:bouju@mmsh.univ>–//-aix.fr <http://aix.fr> /) /et Pierre Petit (pipetit@ulb.ac.be <mailto:pipetit@ulb.ac.be>)./
2014.04 Appel a contribution Civilisations Terrains difficiles

FIELD RESEARCH IN DIFFICULT CONTEXTS : HOSTILE SETTINGS, SENSITIVE TOPICS, TABOOS

Today, most of social sciences requiring field research are particularly sensitive to epistemological and ethical problems arising from research in difficult contexts. This is not a new concern. The topic has already been explored (Bouillon, Frésia and Tallio, 2006; Sriram, King, Merus, Martin-Ortega and Herman, 2009). Nevertheless, much remains to say about the various consequences of theses difficulties on fieldwork method: on the insecurity of the researcher and the protection of informants when operating in dangerous settings, on the ethical challenges surrounding research with vulnerable populations, or on the validity of information gathered in violent contexts. Reasons for that are difficult to trace. They may be due to the disparity of hostile settings, to the normative pluralism of concerned institutions, to the disjunction of experienced temporalities by different actors, to the heterogeneity of data available, or to all these reasons altogether. With this special issue, we wish to confront researchers’ personal reflections on their own field experience about the challenges of conducting qualitative research in ‘difficult contexts’, on sensitive or forbidden topics, in hostile post-conflict or pre-conflict settings, or with vulnerable populations in situation of emergency or natural disaster, etc.

/Proposals in English or French (title  and a 400 words abstract) are to be sent before may 4th to editorial board (civilisations@ulb.ac.be <mailto:civilisations@ulb.ac.be> / natacha.belang@ulb.ac;be <mailto:natacha.belang@ulb.ac;be>) and guest editors bouju@mmsh.univ <mailto:bouju@mmsh.univ>–//-aix.fr <http://aix.fr> ) and Pierre Petit (pipetit@ulb.ac.be <mailto:pipetit@ulb.ac.be>).

See entire call for papers in English and French in attached file
2014.04 Call for papers Civilisations Terrains difficiles