Danger in the Field Ethics and Risk in Social Research [Hardcover]

The nature of qualitative inquiry means that researchers constantly have to deal with the unexpected, and all too often this means coping with the presence of danger or risk. This innovative and lively analysis of danger in various qualitative research settings is drawn from researchers' reflexive accounts of their own encounters with 'danger'.

An original take on the ever-popular topic of the ethics of research, this pioneering book expands the common sense use of the term to encompass not just physical danger, but emotional, ethical and professional danger too, with the authors paying special attention to the gendered forms of danger implicit in the research process. From the physical danger of researching the night club 'bouncer' scene to the ethical dangers of participant observation in an old people's home, these international contributions provide researchers and students with thought provoking insights into the importance of a well chosen research design.

1. Putting Danger in the Frame Geraldine Lee-Treweekand Stephanie Linkogle2. Taking the Flak: Operational Policing, Fear & Violence Louise Westmarland3. Getting on the Door and Staying There: A Covert Participant Observational Study of Bouncers David Calvey4. Negotiating Danger in Fieldwork on Crime: A Researcher's Tale Janet Jamieson5. Bacteria & Babies: A Personal Reflection on Researcher Risk in a Hospital Gloria Lankshear6. Dangerous Liaisons: Auto/biography in Research and Research Writing Gayle Letherby7. The Insight of Emotional Danger: Research Experiences in a Home for Older People Geraldine Lee-Treweek8. Relajo: Danger in a Crowd Stephanie Linkogle9. Body, Career, and Community: The Implications of Research on Dangerous Groups Arthur J. Jipson and Chad E. Litton10. Whiteness: Endangered Knowledges, Endangered Sl.