Secrecy and Methods in Security Research A Guide to Qualitative Fieldwork

This book analyses the challenges of secrecy in security research, and develops a set of methods to navigate, encircle and work with secrecy. How can researchers navigate secrecy in their fieldwork, when they encounter confidential material, closed-off quarters or bureaucratic rebuffs? This is a pa...

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Other Authors: De Goede, Marieke (Editor), Bosma, Esmé (Editor), Pallister-Wilkins, Polly (Editor)
Format: Electronic Book Chapter
Language:English
Published: Taylor & Francis 2019
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