{"product_id":"stories-from-the-field-9780231193016","title":"Stories from the Field","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eStories from the Field\u003c\/i\u003e is a relatable, thoughtful, and unorthodox guide to field research in political science. It features personal stories from working political scientists: some funny, some dramatic, all fascinating and informative.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe breadth of life experience captured in this collection is the reason this volume has great pedagogical potential. A lot of graduate students will flip to find their academic heroes and crushes and then keep reading. Authors are writing with different agendas, but always in a first-person voice. The effect is to give the volume both intellectual heft and a personal touch. -- Jesse Driscoll, author of \u003ci\u003eDoing Global Fieldwork: A Social Scientist’s Guide to Mixed-Methods Research Far From Home\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI love this book. I want every first-year political science student, all graduate students, and each of my colleagues to read it. Krause and Szekely deliver the real deal: how to do rigorous field research while remaining candid, agile, and curious. In every chapter here, I laughed and I learned. -- Cynthia Enloe, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Big Push: Exposing and Challenging Persistent Patriarchy\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eScholars seldom share their personal stories and lessons drawn from field research with others, limiting our ability to learn from one another's experiences. This book is unique in making available stories and insights from forty-four such experiences from scholars for whom fieldwork is a central part of their research. I wish it had been available when I first went to the field, and hope that young scholars today will take advantage of it, both to convince them of the importance of fieldwork and to help to prepare them for what to expect from it. -- Sidney Tarrow, coeditor of \u003ci\u003eThe Resistance: The Dawn of the Anti-Trump Opposition Movement\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOffers a wealth of personal insights, methodological discussions, and ways of creatively coping with the unexpected during research carried out around the globe....This is a good volume for use in a methods course...Highly recommended. * Choice *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction: Learning Through Stories, by Peter Krause and Ora Szekely\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart I. Welcome to the Field\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1. Fieldwork and Emotions, by Ian S. Lustick\u003cbr\u003e2. Cooking Soup and Killing Chickens: Navigating Gender and Food-as-Fieldwork in West Africa, by Zoe Marks\u003cbr\u003e3. Recite! Interpretive Fieldwork for Positivists, by Richard A. Nielsen\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart II. Designing Your Research and Deciding Where to Go\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e4. Fieldwork by Decree, Not by Design, by Stathis N. Kalyvas\u003cbr\u003e5. Conducting 1,500 Surveys in New York City (With Great Uncertainty and a Limited Budget), by Christina M. Greer\u003cbr\u003e6. Hezbollah Will Take Your Data: How to Plan for Research Among Insurgents, by Krista E. Wiegand\u003cbr\u003e7. When the Linguistic Lightweight Goes Abroad: Relying on Sharp Students by Stephen M. Saideman\u003cbr\u003e8. Navigating Data Collection in War Zones, by Fotini Christia\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart III. Make a Plan . . . Then Be Ready to Toss It\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e9. Let Go and Let Ali, by Nadya Hajj\u003cbr\u003e10. Be Prepared (To Go Off Script), by Daniel N. Posner\u003cbr\u003e11. Radio Gaga: Evolving Field Experiments in Mali, by Kristin Michelitch\u003cbr\u003e12. Crossed Wires: Interviewing the Wrong People, by Bethany Lacina\u003cbr\u003e13. “You Don’t Know What You’re Getting Into”: Dealing with Dishonesty in the Field, by Matthew Franklin Cancian and Kristin E. Fabbe\u003cbr\u003e14. Successful Fieldwork for the Fieldwork-Hater, by Amelia Hoover Green\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart IV. Creatively Collecting Data and Evidence\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e15. How to Interview a Terrorist, by Jessica Stern\u003cbr\u003e16. Stumbling Around in the Archives, by Marc Trachtenberg\u003cbr\u003e17. Details in the Doodles: Documenting Covert Action, by Lindsey A. O’Rourke\u003cbr\u003e18. My Stint as a Ukrainian Taxi Driver, by Keith Darden\u003cbr\u003e19. Conducting Fieldwork in a Virtual Space: Exploring ISIS’s Encrypted Messaging on Telegram, by Mia Bloom and Ayse Lokmanoglu\u003cbr\u003e20. All the Signs Are There: Incidental Discoveries During Fieldwork on Gender Discrimination in Russia, by Valerie Sperling\u003cbr\u003e21. Learning from Foreign Colleagues, by Robert Ross\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart V. Developing Local Knowledge\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e22. On Field-Being, by Wendy Pearlman\u003cbr\u003e23. Fieldwork on Foot, by Paul Staniland\u003cbr\u003e24. The Onion Principle, by David D. Laitin\u003cbr\u003e25. The Intoxication of Fieldwork: Obtaining Authorizations in Burkina Faso, by John F. McCauley\u003cbr\u003e26. Field Research and Security in a Collapsed State, by Will Reno\u003cbr\u003e27. Building Field Networks in the Era of Big Data, by Amaney Jamal\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart VI. Seeing and Being Seen: Identity in the Field\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e28. Researching an Old Civil War Close to Home, by Laia Balcells\u003cbr\u003e29. Positionality and Subjectivity in Field Research, by Enze Han\u003cbr\u003e30. Race and the Study of a Racial Democracy, by Melissa Nobles\u003cbr\u003e31. “Why Are You Interested in \u003ci\u003eThat\u003c\/i\u003e?” Studying Racial Inequality in the United States from the Outside, by Desmond King\u003cbr\u003e32. Navigating Born and Chosen Identities in Fieldwork, by Peter Krause\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart VII. Being Ethically Accountable\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e33. On Research That “Matters,” by Erica Chenoweth\u003cbr\u003e34. The Field Is Everywhere, by Zachariah Cherian Mampilly\u003cbr\u003e35. Things Change: Protecting Yourself and Your Sources in Uncertain Times, by Marc Lynch\u003cbr\u003e36. Ethnography with Extremists: Living in a Fascist Militia, by Alessandro Orsini\u003cbr\u003e37. Building Trust with Ex-Insurgents, by Emil Aslan Souleimanov\u003cbr\u003e38. On Being Seen, by Ora Szekely\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart VIII. Staying Safe and Healthy\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e39. Conducting Safe Fieldwork on Violence and Peace, by Sarah Zukerman Daly\u003cbr\u003e40. Your Safety and Theirs: Interviewing Sex-Traffickers, by Carla B. Abdo-Katsipis\u003cbr\u003e41. Shingles on the Campaign Trail, by Ravi Perry\u003cbr\u003e42. Drink the Tea, by Vipin Narang\u003cbr\u003eOne Last Thing Before You Go . . .\u003cbr\u003eConclusion: What Does It Mean to Do Fieldwork?, by Peter Krause and Ora Szekely\u003cbr\u003eIndex","brand":"Columbia University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49400342413655,"sku":"9780231193016","price":999.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/stories-from-the-field-9780231193016","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}