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Academic literature rarely gives an account of the ethical
challenges and emotional pitfalls the researcher is confronted with
before, during and after being in the field. Giving personal
accounts, the authors explore some of the challenges one can face
when engaging in local-level research in difficult situations.
This book looks at how the benefits of economic development in the
Great Lakes Region of Africa are not being equally distributed. It
studies the impact of the increasing scramble for natural resources
upon local livelihoods and considers the ambiguities that
characterise the relationship between mining and development.
An essential exploration of and guide to research ethics in the
field. Researchers working in Africa are engaged in ethical,
methodological, logistical, emotional and professional compromises.
Juggling the demands of being a researcher and being human,
scholars must balance the recording of data withthe emotional
demands of listening, of analyzing and reporting personal, and
often contradictory, narratives. This book recognizes these
challenges and lays bare the underlying and important process by
which the researcher grapples with emotions, and how 'feelings'
inform and shape data collection, interpretation, write-up and
dissemination. Based on widely researched on-the-ground work, the
contributors reveal the ambiguities and inconsistences that emerge
at all stages of fieldwork and how to tackle them. They examine the
ethical quagmires that arise when doing research on sensitive
topics in a researcher's own living environment, and suggest how to
manage the complex interaction between the researcher's own
identity and social relationships in the field, and navigate the
role of researcher when activism risks access to the field.
Academic literature rarely gives an account of the ethical
challenges and emotional pitfalls the researcher is confronted with
before, during and after being in the field. Giving personal
accounts, the authors explore some of the challenges one can face
when engaging in local-level research in difficult situations.
This book looks at how the benefits of economic development in the
Great Lakes Region of Africa are not being equally distributed. It
studies the impact of the increasing scramble for natural resources
upon local livelihoods and considers the ambiguities that
characterise the relationship between mining and development.
Examines a new aspect of one of the highest profile issues facing
Africa today-land-grabbing-and shows the widespread impact of
small-scale dispossession. Dispossession of land on a small scale
can have as great an impact on living conditions as large-scale
land-grabs. With the increasing commodification of land, new forms
of dispossession, in urban as well as rural districts, are also
gaining in importance. This book looks at this largely
uninvestigated issue through case studies in the Eastern DRC,
Rwanda, Burundi and Uganda: here the loss of land often represents
the loss of people's livelihoods inthese areas of extreme land
scarcity in highly populated regions. In the post-conflict states
of the Great Lakes, governance challenges increase the risk of
dispossession of the already poor and vulnerable: formal
institutions are weak or biased; customary authorities have lost
some of their moral authority. The cases in this book show in
particular how local power dynamics, often rooted in history, bear
upon the processes of land competition, dispossession and land
grabbing. This timely volume will be important not only for those
in African Studies, but for those in development studies, as well
as practitioners and policy-makers worldwide. An Ansoms is
assistant professor in development studies at the Universite
Catholique de Louvain (Belgium); Thea Hilhorst is a senior advisor
at the Royal Tropical Institute in Amsterdam.
This is a new release of the original 1938 edition.
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rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for
everyone!
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