Monique Marks is Head of the Urban Futures Centre at the Durban University of Technology, South Africa. Initially trained as a social worker, she writes predominantly in the field of criminology. She has published widely in the areas of youth social movements, ethnographic research methods, police labour relations, police organisational change and street level drug use. Her research is mostly ethnographic and takes place in spaces that are considered compromising or unsafe. She is also the founder of the KwaZulu-Natal Harm Reduction Advocacy Group.Julten Abdelhalim is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Institute for Asian and African Studies at Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany. Her research deals with revivalist Islamic movements and gender issues, citizenship studies, and youth in India and the Arab World. She is the author of Indian Muslims and Citizenship: Spaces for jihād in everyday life (2015).

• Foreword: Coping with Risks in Field Research Introduction: identity, jeopardy and moral dilemmas in conducting research in ‘risky’ environments 1. Field, ethics and self: negotiating methodology in a Hindu right wing camp 2. ‘Don’t say "research"’: reducing bidirectional risk in Kibera slum 3. Environmentalist protection: feminist methodology and participant risk for research with Chinese NGOs 4. Ethical and methodological responses to risks in fieldwork with deaf Ugandans 5. ‘We are your brothers, we will know where you are at all times’: risk, violence and positionality in Karachi 6. Accommodating fieldwork to irreconcilable equations of citizenship, authoritarianism, poverty and fear in Egypt 7.Where the dust settles: fieldwork, subjectivity and materiality in Cairo 8. Risky closeness and distance in two fieldwork sites in Brazil 9. Rumours, fears and solidarity in fieldwork in times of political turmoil on the verge of war in Southern Yemen

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Monique Marks is Head of the Urban Futures Centre at the Durban University of Technology, South Africa. Initially trained as a social worker, she writes predominantly in the field of criminology. She has published widely in the areas of youth social movements, ethnographic research methods, police labour relations, police organisational change and street level drug use. Her research is mostly ethnographic and takes place in spaces that are considered compromising or unsafe. She is also the founder of the KwaZulu-Natal Harm Reduction Advocacy Group.Julten Abdelhalim is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Institute for Asian and African Studies at Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany. Her research deals with revivalist Islamic movements and gender issues, citizenship studies, and youth in India and the Arab World. She is the author of Indian Muslims and Citizenship: Spaces for jihād in everyday life (2015).

• Foreword: Coping with Risks in Field Research Introduction: identity, jeopardy and moral dilemmas in conducting research in ‘risky’ environments 1. Field, ethics and self: negotiating methodology in a Hindu right wing camp 2. ‘Don’t say "research"’: reducing bidirectional risk in Kibera slum 3. Environmentalist protection: feminist methodology and participant risk for research with Chinese NGOs 4. Ethical and methodological responses to risks in fieldwork with deaf Ugandans 5. ‘We are your brothers, we will know where you are at all times’: risk, violence and positionality in Karachi 6. Accommodating fieldwork to irreconcilable equations of citizenship, authoritarianism, poverty and fear in Egypt 7.Where the dust settles: fieldwork, subjectivity and materiality in Cairo 8. Risky closeness and distance in two fieldwork sites in Brazil 9. Rumours, fears and solidarity in fieldwork in times of political turmoil on the verge of war in Southern Yemen

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Monique Marks is Head of the Urban Futures Centre at the Durban University of Technology, South Africa. Initially trained as a social worker, she writes predominantly in the field of criminology. She has published widely in the areas of youth social movements, ethnographic research methods, police labour relations, police organisational change and street level drug use. Her research is mostly ethnographic and takes place in spaces that are considered compromising or unsafe. She is also the founder of the KwaZulu-Natal Harm Reduction Advocacy Group.Julten Abdelhalim is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Institute for Asian and African Studies at Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany. Her research deals with revivalist Islamic movements and gender issues, citizenship studies, and youth in India and the Arab World. She is the author of Indian Muslims and Citizenship: Spaces for jihād in everyday life (2015).

• Foreword: Coping with Risks in Field Research Introduction: identity, jeopardy and moral dilemmas in conducting research in ‘risky’ environments 1. Field, ethics and self: negotiating methodology in a Hindu right wing camp 2. ‘Don’t say "research"’: reducing bidirectional risk in Kibera slum 3. Environmentalist protection: feminist methodology and participant risk for research with Chinese NGOs 4. Ethical and methodological responses to risks in fieldwork with deaf Ugandans 5. ‘We are your brothers, we will know where you are at all times’: risk, violence and positionality in Karachi 6. Accommodating fieldwork to irreconcilable equations of citizenship, authoritarianism, poverty and fear in Egypt 7.Where the dust settles: fieldwork, subjectivity and materiality in Cairo 8. Risky closeness and distance in two fieldwork sites in Brazil 9. Rumours, fears and solidarity in fieldwork in times of political turmoil on the verge of war in Southern Yemen

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