Field Research in Africa

AN ANSOMS is Professor in Development Studies at the UniversitéCatholique de Louvain (Belgium). AYMAR NYENYEZI BISOKA is Assistant Professor at the University of Mons, Belgium. SUSAN THOMSON is Associate Professor of Peace and Conflict Studies at Colgate University. AN ANSOMS is Professor in Development Studies at the UniversitéCatholique de Louvain (Belgium). AYMAR NYENYEZI BISOKA is Assistant Professor at the University of Mons, Belgium. SUSAN THOMSON is Associate Professor of Peace and Conflict Studies at Colgate University.

• Foreword: It is about Us - Elísio MacamoMap of Africa showing Fields of ResearchIntroduction: Fields of Vision, Emotion as Reflexivity - Susan Thomson, An Ansoms, and Aymar Nyenyezi Bisoka1. Skin Connections: Negotiating Institutional Ethics alongside Insider Identities - Gino Vlavonou2. Conducting Sensitive Research 'At Home': A Matter of Responsibility - Emery Mushagalusa Mudinga3. A Gendered Research Journey: Ethical Dilemmas of an Algerian Immigrant Recovering the Memory of 'Home' - Ghaliya N. Djelloul4. Establishing Kinship in Diaspora: Conducting Research among Fellow Congolese Immigrants of Cape Town - Rosette Sifa Vuninga5. 'If they find out, we're dead': Intermediaries, Self-censorship, and Anxiety in Research as an Outsider-insider - Aymar Nyenyezi Bisoka6. Looking Behind the Screen: Ethical Quagmires when Accessing Hidden Discourses - An Ansoms7. Scholar-Activist? On Relational Accountability and an Ethic of Dissemination - Susan ThomsonConclusion: Theorizing Self as Ethical Research Practice - Susan Thomson, An Ansoms and Aymar Nyenyezi BisokaBibliography

In the foreword of Field Research in Africa, the editors share that the goal of research is to render the world intelligible. All the contributors stick to this theme very effectively as they try to make intelligible the discomforting and the personally challenging. Field Research in Africa is written with clear narration, articulation of deep concepts, and practical considerations for readers.