Visibilising hidden realities and uncertainties: the ‘post-covid’ move towards decolonized and ethical field research practices

Dunia, Oscar Abedi; Baaz, Maria Eriksson; Toppo, Anju Oseema Maria; Parashar, Swati; Utas, Mats; Vincent, James B.M.

doi:10.1080/13645579.2023.2173427

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“…He was known in the region through his work as a community worker for a local NGO. We use the term facilitating researchers purposefully, in relation to recent debates about the relations between researchers, expertise, and knowledge in the Global North and the Global South (see Abedi Dunia et al, 2020;Eriksson Baaz and Utas, 2019). 5.…”

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The company is here to do goodness to us: Imaginaries of development, whiteness, and patronage in Sierra Leone's agribusiness investment deals

Bakker

Ryan

2021

Environ Plan A

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In this paper, we consider how references to ‘development’ are deployed to convince communities to lease their land to agribusiness investors in Sierra Leone. We argue that promises of development made by companies resonate with the aspirations for development that communities already have. The already existing ‘imaginaries’ of development, actual conditions of economic hardship and the material relations of power bound up in who does the ‘asking’ for land mean that communities need little convincing to give their land. Imaginaries of development are effective not only because of the promises of development themselves, but also because of how these imaginaries function through the role of coloniality – and ‘whiteness’ in particular. Analyses that focus only on the coercive power of elites in making land deals miss the degree to which companies’ promises of development fit into already existing imaginaries of a more prosperous future.

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The company is here to do goodness to us: Imaginaries of development, whiteness, and patronage in Sierra Leone's agribusiness investment deals

Bakker

Ryan

2021

Environ Plan A

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Ethics of Archives: Improving Historical Social Science Through the Consideration of Research on Violence

Luft,

Subotić

2024

Soc. sci. hist.

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In recent years, social scientists have “(re)discovered history” by visiting archives, collecting documents, and analyzing their findings to address concerns about the causes and consequences of violence. Nevertheless, social scientists frequently appear at their archives with little to no training on the methods and ethics of archival research as they increasingly rush to examine primary historical records. This has resulted in a dearth of discourse on how the practice of historical research influences the outcomes of our analyses. Our article, as a result, employs findings from research on political violence in sociology and political science, as well as insights from history and archival studies, to introduce three broad ethical concerns related to politics, interpretation, and harms and benefits that, we argue, have methodological implications for historical social science. These methodological implications are too often ignored in historical social science, but we contend they are necessary to consider prior to and during archival research, as well as afterward when analyzing data, in order to ensure that the results of that research are valid, reliable, and ethical despite the constraints involved in working with historical evidence. We also discuss contemporary conflicts and how data collection on violence influences our understanding of the past. The objective of this article is to identify and address the primary challenges that social scientists who work with archives encounter, as well as to advocate for increased transparency in archival research.

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Civil Wars and Civil Wars 2017–2021: A Reflection

Fisher,

Jackson

2023

Civil Wars

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Visibilising hidden realities and uncertainties: the ‘post-covid’ move towards decolonized and ethical field research practices

Cited by 6 publications

References 32 publications

The company is here to do goodness to us: Imaginaries of development, whiteness, and patronage in Sierra Leone's agribusiness investment deals

The company is here to do goodness to us: Imaginaries of development, whiteness, and patronage in Sierra Leone's agribusiness investment deals

Ethics of Archives: Improving Historical Social Science Through the Consideration of Research on Violence

Civil Wars and Civil Wars 2017–2021: A Reflection

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