Robin James Smith is Reader in Sociology at Cardiff University Sara Delamont is Emerita Reader in the School of Social Sciences, Cardiff University

• Leaving the field: an editors’ introductionSara Delamont and Robin James SmithPart I Entanglements and im/perfect exits1 Finishing fieldwork in less than perfect circumstances: lessons learned in ‘labyrinth’ exitingAlexandra Allan and Sarah Cole2 Exeunt omnes!! The case for bad exits in ethnographySally Campbell Galman3 Reflections on care and attachment in the ‘departure lounge’ of ethnographyAlex McInch and Harry C.R. Bowles4 Unfinished business: a reflection on leaving the fieldGareth M. Thomas5 Materia erotica: making love among glass-blowersErin O’ConnorPart II Troubling the field6 Those who never leave usJessica Nina Lester and Allison Daniel Anders7 Déjà vu et jamais vu: what happens when the field expands in ways that mean there is no exit?Dawn Mannay8 Student voices ‘echo’ from the ethnographic fieldJanean Robinson, Barry Down and John Smyth9 Public space and visible poverty: research fields without exitAndrew P. Carlin10 ‘The martial will never leave your bones’: embodying the field of the Kung Fu familyGeorge JenningsPart III Intermissions and returns11 Between open and closed: recursive exits and returns to the fuzzy field of a community library across a decade of austerityAlice Corble12 On the importance of intermissions in ethnographic fieldwork: lessons from leaving New YorkJoe Williams13 Can you remember? Leaving and returning to the field in longitudinal research with people living with dementiaAndrew Clark and Sarah Campbell14 A constant apprenticeship in martial arts: the messy longitudinal dynamics of never leaving the fieldDavid CalveyPart IV Returns, responsibilities and representations after ‘leaving’15 A cautionary tale about ‘respondent validation’: the dissonant meeting of ‘field self’ and ‘author self’Daniel Burrows16 Commenting on legal practice: research relationships and the impact of criticismDaniel Newman17 Emotional honesty and reflections on problematic positionalities when conducting research in another countryAshley Rogers

CHOICE: Recommended