The Palgrave Handbook of Social Fieldwork

Chapter 1 Methodological Issues in Social Research: Experience from the Twenty-First Century

Chapter 2 Research in a Moving Field: Doing In-aqua Research in Blue Space Settings

Chapter 3 Researching Garo Death Rites

Chapter 4 Navigating the Tyrannies of Fieldwork: A Nigerian Experience

Chapter 5 Trial by Fire: Reflections on Fieldwork in Nagaland, Northeast India

Chapter 6 Feeling Unsettled in the Field: Emotions and the Field Researcher

Chapter 7 Developing Relationships over Many Years: Under Investigated but Important Types of Interview-Based Research

Chapter 8 Sick in the Field: Illness and Interbeing Encounters in Anthropological Fieldwork

Chapter 9 At the Organ Bazaar of Bangladesh: In Search of Kidney Sellers

Chapter 10 “Can we talk about surrogacy?” Legal Precariousness and Qualitative Research in the Biomedical Context

Chapter 11 Qualitative ‘Fieldwork’ in Health Geographic Research: Self-reports from Bangladesh

Chapter 12 Adolescent Drug Use in Connecticut Private High Schools: Zero Tolerance, Contextual Peer Influence, and Deterrence Effectiveness

Chapter 13 Dilemmas and Challenges in Qualitative Fieldwork with Climate-Vulnerable Communities

Chapter 14 Risks and Challenges in Fieldwork on Gender-Based Violence: Gendered Identity, Social Taboo and Culture

Chapter 15 Rethinking Ethnographic Research as ‘Gendered and En-casted Labour’: Reflections from a Non-metropolitan City of West Bengal, India

Chapter 16 Capturing the Uncaptured: Photovoice as a Method for Women’s Empowerment in Domestic Violence

Chapter 17 Fieldwork with Opposite Gender: Exploring the Agency of Left-Behind Women of Migrant Households in Rural Bangladesh

Chapter 18 Between an Activist and Academic: Contested (Re)positioning of Ethnographers in Refugee Research

Chapter 19 Moving Research Methods to the Field: Challenges and Lessons Learnt Across African Contexts

Chapter 20 Entry, Access, Bans and Returns: Reflections on Positionality in Field Research on Central Asia’s Ethnic Minorities

Chapter 21 Doing Ethnography on Sexuality Among Young Men in Dhaka, Bangladesh: How Has Reflexivity Helped?

Chapter 22 A Native Anthropologist’s Positionality of Being an Insider/Outsider: A Reflective Account of Doing Ethnographic Research in Nepal

Chapter 23 Recruitment of Participants from Vulnerable Groups for Social Research: Challenges and Solutions

Chapter 24 Navigating Archival Readings of Rural Technology

Chapter 25 Conclusion: Challenges of Social Research—A Way Forward