The course aims at encouraging a critical reflection on qualitative research methods that can be used in fragile contexts and sensitive research areas. This course will focus on important aspects to take into consideration when doing fieldwork in fragile contexts, such as researcher’s positionality, self-reflexivity, and access to the field; interacting with vulnerable populations; practical, ethical, and social implications of the research; psychological repercussions for the researcher; research limitations and challenges; participants and researcher’s security in authoritarian and violent contexts; doing fieldwork during and after the Covid-19 pandemic; decolonizing methodologies. The course will be organized in form of weekly meetings. This seminar is particularly suitable for students of migration and refugee studies, gender studies, or humanitarian studies who are expected to carry out field research. close

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