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Call for Contributions | Surviving the Messy Reality of Fieldwork: Narratives across the Social Sciences and Humanities, edited by Neil Carr, published by Routledge | Call ends August 1,...
There is a mini mountain of textbooks dedicated to research methods. They talk about how preparation is key to successful data collection. In the process they feed into the almost universal narrative that a successful data collection process will result in the gathering of a database that exactly matches what was planned. The impression that develops is that fieldwork must be perfect, that imperfections are failures, The result is seen in theses and methods sections in journal articles where no failures are apparent. Yet the reality is that fieldwork is often messy.
