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This article examines some aspects of the phenomenon of popular fiction, using the terminology proposed by Pierre Bourdieu in his works on distinction and cultural production, including ‘position taking,’ ‘field,’ and ‘capital(s).’ After the theoretical ...
Bent Sørensen
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The performance of the biodegradable plastic materials polyhydroxybutyrate (PHB), polybutylene sebacate (PBSe) and polybutylene sebacate co-terephthalate (PBSeT), and of polyethylene (LDPE) was assessed under marine environmental conditions in a three ...
Christian Lott +8 more
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Gendered challenges to fieldwork in conflict-affected areas [PDF]
This chapter takes a gendered perspective on some of the challenges and opportunities of intervention fieldwork. Based on experiences from fieldwork in Liberia, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Haiti, I consider how the doing of fieldwork, the ...
Jennings, Kathleen
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Involved and Detached: Emotional Management in Fieldwork [PDF]
Using examples from fieldwork among armed groups in Congo and pre-1989 Romania, this article argues against the prevailing ethos of ethnographers engagement with the people they study, in favor of a dynamic between engagement and detachment, what we call
Hedlund, Anna +6 more
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Fieldwork is an important aspect of geography learning in higher educational institutions. Under the support of mobile technologies, the process and method of fieldwork in geography education have significantly been changed.
Ling Ruan +3 more
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Developing a digital field notebook for bioscience students in higher education
IntroductionThe use of mobile device presents both benefits and barriers. However, studies into the use of technology in fieldwork often focus only on either practitioner views or student views.
Janine Maddison +2 more
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This essay explores the dominant expectations of “objectivity” and “distance” that continue to penetrate classrooms and academic journals, and conferences and public spaces.
Azra Hromadžić
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A difficult negotiation: fieldwork relations with gatekeepers [PDF]
This paper explores the challenges the researcher faced when undertaking ethnographic fieldwork within a Probation Approved Premises. How access to research sites is achieved is increasingly being discussed, particularly in ethnographic accounts.
Reeves, Carla +2 more
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An evaluation of the educational effectiveness of fieldwork within environmental science awards at the University of Wolverhampton [PDF]
Report of a CELT project on supporting students through innovation and researchFieldwork is considered to be a major component within geography, earth and environmental sciences curricula and is advocated as an effective learning environment by virtually
Watkin, Glynne +2 more
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Producing knowledge about ‘Third World women’: The politics of fieldwork in a Zimbabwean secondary school [PDF]
Fieldwork is a project in which ‘researcher, researched and research make each other’ (Rose, 1997, p. 316), yet far more attention has been given to the making of the research and researcher than to the researched.
Ansell, N
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