Palgrave Handbook of Social Fieldwork

Nasir Uddin is a cultural anthropologist based in Bangladesh and Professor of Anthropology at the University of Chittagong. He is the author of The Rohingya: An Ethnography of ‘Subhuman’ Life (2020) and Voices of the Rohingya People: A Case of Genocide, Ethnocide and ‘Subhuman’ Life (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022).Alak Paul is Professor in the Department of Geography and Environmental Studies, at the University of Chittagong. He is the co-editor of Geography in Bangladesh: Concepts Methods and Applications (2019) and the author of HIV/AIDS in Bangladesh: Stigmatized People, Policy and Place (2020).

• 1. Methodological issues in social research: Experience from the 21st century.- 2. An active partner in disgraceful context: research, surveillance and risk in the Chittagong Hill Tracts.- 3. Researching Garo Death Rites (reprint with revision).- 4. Negotiating the tyrannies of fieldwork in Africa: A Nigerian experience.- 5. Trial by fire: Reflections on fieldwork in Nagaland, Northeast India. 6. Encounters in the field: The influence of emotions on data.- 7. Developing relationships over many years: Under investigated but important types of qualitative Research.- 8. Sick in the Field: Illness and inter-being encounters in anthropological fieldwork.- 9. At the organ bazaar of Bangladesh: In search of kidney sellers (reprint with revision). 10. “Can we talk about surrogacy?” Legal precariousness and the perils of qualitative research in the biomedical Context.- 11. Qualitative ‘fieldwork’ in health geographic research: self-reports from Bangladesh.- 12. Adolescent drug abuse in Connecticut private high schools: Zero tolerance, contextual peer Influence, and deterrence effectiveness.- 13. Researchers’ dilemmas and challenges in qualitative fieldwork with climate-vulnerable communities.- 14. Risks and challenges in fieldwork on gender-based violence: Identity, social taboo and culture.- 15. Rethinking ethnographic research as ‘gendered and en-casted labour’: Reflections from researching caste and partition-induced forced-migration in a non-metropolitan city of West Bengal.- 16. Photovoice as a method for women’s empowerment in domestic violence: a reflexive account.- 17. Working with opposite gender: Experience of doing fieldwork among rural women in Bangladesh.- 18. Between an activist and academic: Contested (re)positioning in refugee research.- 19. Moving research methods to the field: Challenges and Lessons learned across African contexts.- 20. Entry, access, bans and returns: Reflections on positionality in field research on Central Asia’s ethnic minorities.- 21. Doing ethnography on sexuality among Young Men in Dhaka, Bangladesh: How Has Reflexivity Helped? - 22. A native anthropologist’s positionality of being insider/outsider: A reflective account of doing ethnographic research in Nepal.- 23. Recruitment of participants from vulnerable groups for social research: Challenges and solutions.- 24. Navigating Archival Readings of Rural Technology.- 25. Challenges of social research: Way forward.