Researching Central Asia Navigating Positionality in the Field /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Dall'Agnola, Jasmin (Editor), Sharshenova, Aijan (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer Nature Switzerland : Imprint: Springer, 2024.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
• Series: SpringerBriefs in Political Science,
• Subjects: Political science.; Sociology > Methodology.; Ethnology.; Asia > Politics and government.; Methodology of Political Science.; Sociological Methods.; Sociocultural Anthropology.; Asian Politics.
• Online Access: Link to Metadata

Summary

This open access book explores some of the struggles and challenges that researchers and practitioners face when conducting research in the Central Asian research setting. Written for scholars still in the planning stages of their research, it addresses key questions, including: How shall we problematize and reconceptualize the concept of positionality through lenses of local voices from the region? How does practitioners' and scholars' positionality contribute to their experiences of inclusion, exclusion, and access to the field? How do scholars navigate issues of personal safety and mental well-being in the more closely monitored societies of Central Asia? The book includes contributors from both Central Asia and Western countries, paying particular attention to the ways researchers' subjectivity shape how they are received in the region, which, in turn, influences how they write about and disseminate their research. In featuring an even greater variety of voices, this book fills an important gap in the literature on field research and knowledge production in and on Central Asia.

Physical Description

X, 104 p. 2 illus., 1 illus. in color. online resource.

ISBN

9783031390241

ISSN

2191-5474

DOI

10.1007/978-3-031-39024-1

Access

Open Access