This running theme's introduction rethinks fieldwork as an ongoing process. It explores
experiences and conceptions of 'becoming fluent in fieldwork': the contextual processes …

Contemplation, or the practice of sitting still to 'stop and see', can expand one's embodied
awareness. This expanded awareness resembles ethnographic sensibility, a disposition …

This article reflects on the potential merits of a dialogical research design and practice with a
view to caring for oneself and others. As my research is premised on dialogue, the self-care …

How can researchers conduct interviews about sensitive topics the interlocutors are
unwilling to discuss? This article contributes to the ongoing debates on interviewing. While …

Interpretive International Relations (IR) has become a robust and diverse research
programme, consolidating across various subfields of the discipline. However, this is a …

This paper empirically retraces and conceptualizes secrecy in the study of security. Building
on 27 qualitative, semi-structured interviews with social scientists about their field research …

This paper probes the two fundamental questions: 1) how do research stressors, related to
PhD research in general and to fieldwork in particular, transform into stress for doctoral …

This volume aims to unsettle the silence that surrounds fieldwork failure in both methods
training and academic publications. Speaking from the practice of Ph. D. research to …

The challenges and opportunities of accessing empirical material present a puzzle insofar
as they index simultaneously the politics of research archives and the positionality of …

Is there something that makes research particularly 'constructivist'or is it rather the case that
all those formidable debates that we have had for the last 30 years are actually immaterial …