Judith Miggelbrink

Frank Meyer

Kristine Beurskens

In diesem Buch berichten 20 Wissenschaftler/innen aus ihren praktischen Erfahrungen in der Feldforschung im Bereich der Sozialgeographie. Im Einzelnen gehen sie auf die Herausforderungen bei der Konzeption, im Prozess der Durchführung und im Nachgang von Datenerhebungen ein. Sie diskutieren zeitliche, inhaltliche und organisatorische Aspekte und beleuchten, wie Entscheidungen im Feld Erfolg und Misserfolg von Forschung maßgeblich prägen. Ihre Erlebnisse an diversen Orten wie Mittel- und Osteuropa, den Steppen Kasachstans sowie in schrumpfenden Regionen oder in ostdeutschen Jugendklubs bilden die Grundlage für Reflexionen über schwierige Entscheidungen im Feld. Zudem diskutieren sie den Umgang mit sich ändernden Forschungsfragen, widerspenstigen Journalist/inn/en und aufkommenden Shitstorms. Das Buch richtet sich an Nachwuchswissenschaftler/innen, die im Vorfeld ihrer ersten Feldforschungen mit Problemen konfrontiert werden, die zumeist von Methodenhandbüchern nicht berücksichtigt werden.

Ins Feld und zurück - Praktische Probleme qualitativer Forschung in der Sozialgeographie

Sebastian Henn

Kathrin Hörschelmann

This book explores common ethical issues faced by human geographers in their research. It offers practical guidance for research planning and design that incorporates geographic disciplinary knowledge to conceptualise research ethics. The volume brings together international insights from researchers in geography and related fields to provide a comprehensive overview of relevant ethical frameworks and challenges in human geography research. It includes in-depth reflections on a range of ethical dilemmas that arise in certain contextual conditions and spatial constructions that face those researching and teaching on spatial dimensions of social life. With a focus on the increased need for specialist ethics training as part of postgraduate education in the Humanities and Social Sciences and the necessity for fostering sensitivity in cross-cultural comparative research, the book seeks to enable people to engage in ethical decision-making and moral reasoning while conducting research. Chapters examine the implications of geographical research for conceptualising ethics and discuss specific case studies from which more general conclusions, linked to conceptual debates, are drawn. As a research-based reference guide for tackling ethically sensitive projects and international differences in legal and institutional standards and requirements, the book is useful for postgraduate and undergraduate students as well as academics teaching at senior levels.

Research Ethics in Human Geography

Bettina Bruns

Small-scale trade and smuggling are part of everyday life at many borders. These trading activities often compensate for economic shortage that many households are suffering from in consequence of e.g. political transformation processes. Despite of the diversity of transborder small-scale trade and smuggling and their wide dispersion, not only in Europe, their reception within social sciences is relatively low. The contributions shed therefore light on research in geography and neighboured disciplines. On the basis of empirical research findings from borders all over the world, the authors thrive to analyse mechanisms and conditions of the informal activities and to detect parallels and differences of informal economic structures from different perspectives. This book is valuable reading for researchers in geography, sociology, ethnography, and in political science.

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