Danger in the field : risk and ethics in social research /

The nature of qualitative inquiry means that researchers constantly have to deal with the unexpected, and all too often this means coping with the presence of danger or risk. This innovative and lively analysis of danger in various qualitative research settings is drawn from researchers' reflex...

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Online Access:Electronic book from EBSCO
Other Authors: Lee-Treweek, Geraldine, 1969- (Editor), Linkogle, Stephanie (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published:London ; New York : Routledge, 2000.
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Table of Contents:
  • Putting danger in the frame / Geraldine Lee-Treweek and Stephanie Linkogle
  • Taking the flak : operational policing, fear and violence / Louise Westmarland
  • Getting on the door and staying there : a covert participant observational study of bouncers / David Calvey
  • Negotioating danger in fieldwork on crime : a researcher's tale / Janet Jamieson
  • Bacteria and babies : a personal reflection on researcher risk in a hospital / Gloria Lankshear
  • Dangerous liaisons : auto/biograpy in research and research writing / Gayle Letherby
  • The insight of emotional danger : research experiences in a home for older people / Geraldine Lee-Treweek
  • Relajo : danger in a crowd / Stephanie Linkogle
  • Body, career and community : the implications of researching dangerous groups / Arthur J. Jepson and Chad E. Litton
  • Whiteness : endangered knowledges, endangered species? / John Gabriel
  • Sheer foolishness : shifting definitions of danger in conducting and teaching ethnographic field research / Jeff D. Peterson.