Any port in a storm: Fieldwork difficulties in dangerous and crisis-ridden settings

Qualitative Research

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 155-175

  Belousov, Konstantin ^a   Horlick Jones, Tom ^b   Bloor, Michael ^c   Gilinskiy, Yakov ^a   Golbert, Valentin ^a   Kostikovsky, Yakov ^a   Levi, Michael ^b   Pentsov, Dmitri ^d  

^a INSTITUTE OF SOCIOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

^b CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^d INTERNATIONAL LABOUR OFFICE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Crisis ridden institutions; Dangerous fieldwork; Risk; Rrespondent rapport; Sensitive research topics

Indexed keywords

EID: 34147152137     PISSN: 14687941     EISSN: 17413109     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1468794107076019     Document Type: Article

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