The Routledge Handbook of Field Research [Hardcover]

The Routledge Handbook of Field Research?presents a comprehensive, go-to resource for staff and students in preparing for and thinking about the doing of field research, including both individual fieldwork and group field classes.

Daniel Hammett,?School of Geography and Planning, University of Sheffield, UK, and Department of Geography, Environmental Management and Energy Studies, University of Johannesburg, South Africa

Naomi Holmes,?Department of Education, University of York, UK, and Department of Environment and Geography, University of York, UK

The Routledge Handbook of Field Research presents a comprehensive, go-to resource for staff and students in preparing for and thinking about the doing of field research, including both individual fieldwork and group field classes.

Framed by rapidly evolving debates relating to environmental and social justice, decolonialism, the climate crisis, and post-truth society, as well as taking into account ethical, health and safety, and other practical considerations, researchers are faced with a complex and evolving set of factors when making decisions. Working from foundational questions relating to the need for and importance of field research, of where the field is, through logistical and practical concerns, to complex debates around equality and diversity, power relations, sustainability and ethical conundrums, this book is not a simple, formulaic how to guide. Instead, the handbook offers a more critical and reflective approach  acting more as a how to start to think critically about text. In providing a comprehensive and cutting-edge overview of key debates and considerations in the planning, doing, and wrapping up of field research, the handbook shares examples and reflections from experienced field researchers and field class leaders as wellƒC