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Politically sensitive encounters: Ethnography, access and the benefits of ‘hanging out’

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This article is published in International Journal of Social Research Methodology.The article was published on 2014-01-01 and is currently open access. It has received 21 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Ethnography.

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Beyond “Monologicality”? Exploring Conspiracist Worldviews

TL;DR: A sense of community among CT believers, a highly differentiated representation of the outgroup, a personal journey of conversion, variegated kinds of political action, and optimistic belief in future change are revealed.
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Living a fairy tale: the educational experiences of transgender and gender non-conforming youth in Northern Ireland

TL;DR: In this article, the educational experiences of TGNC youth living in Northern Ireland were investigated through a mixed-methods research design and analytical framewing approach, and the results showed that TGNC adolescents were at risk of bullying.
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Medical Care in Palestine: Working in a Conflict Zone.

TL;DR: Jimmy Carter, former American President declared, "The impact of a continuous state of war has left the Palestinian health system in a chronic state of disarray".
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“Hanging Out” while Studying “Up”: Doing Ethnographic Fieldwork in International Relations

TL;DR: In this paper, a methodological argument on how to do ethnographic fieldwork amid social elites and inaccessible bureaucracies in international politics is presented. And the authors illustrate this methodological strategy and its payoffs by reflecting upon a year of fieldwork among the diplomats and bureaucrats of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), an informal, quiet, and often sub rosa diplomatic project run by a band of mostly authoritarian states in Southeast Asia.
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Vulnerable Youth in Volatile Times: Ethical Concerns of Doing Visual Work with "Transfronterizx" Youth on the U.S./Mexico Border.

TL;DR: In this article, a caged-in concrete walkway is depicted with chain-link fences along each of its sides, forming a ceiling, a gated canopy, and a roof.
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Membership roles in field research

TL;DR: The history and history of fieldwork roles can be found in this article, where the Chicago School more radical views on membership and membership experience disengagement have been discussed in the context of field work roles.
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Field research in conflict environments: Methodological challenges and snowball sampling

TL;DR: It is demonstrated how careful use of SSM as a ‘second best’ but still valuable methodology can help generate cooperation and make the difference between research conducted under constrained conditions and research not conducted at all.
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Handbook of Public Policy Analysis Theory, Politics, and Methods

TL;DR: In this paper, Lasswell et al. discuss the role of policy networks in policy learning and argue that they can be used as a tool for policy analysis, as well as as evidence for rationality in policy decision-making.
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Political ethnography : what immersion contributes to the study of power

Edward Schatz
TL;DR: Schatz and Schatzberg as mentioned in this paper discuss the need for a third hermeneutic in writing and reviewing ethnography, and propose the notion of a "first-person research" as an interpretive enterprise in political ethnography.
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The Curious Eclipse of Prison Ethnography in the Age of Mass Incarceration

TL;DR: A survey of the recent sociology and anthropology of carceral institutions shows that field studies depicting the everyday world of inmates in America have gone into eclipse just when they were most needed on both scientific and political grounds following the turn toward the penal management of poverty and the correlative return of the prison to the forefront of societal scene as discussed by the authors.
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