1. Towards a new view of fieldwork ethics: Integrated, individual and shared
Part1. Ethical Challenges in the Field
2. When does ‘fieldwork’ begin? Negotiating pre-field ethical challenges
3. ‘I always carried a machete when travelling on the bus’: Ethical considerations when conducting research in dangerous places
4. Controversial, corrupt and illegal: Researching difficult topics in the Global South
5. Finding fluency in the field: Ethical challenges of conducting research in another language
6. Whose voice? Ethics and dynamics of working with interpreters and research assistants
7. Doing it together: Ethical dimensions of accompanied fieldwork
Part2. Ethical Dimensions of Researcher Identity
8. Revealing and concealing: Ethical dilemmas of manoeuvring identity in the field
9. First impressions count: Identity, access and the ethical dilemmas of being a ‘native’ or a ‘foreign’ researcher
10. Flirting with boundaries: Ethical dilemmas of performing gender and sexuality in the field
11. Family connections: Ethical implications of involving relatives in field research
Part3. Ethical Issues Relating to Research Methods
12. Fellow traveller or viper in the nest? Negotiating ethics in ethnographic research
13. Unsettling the ethical interviewer:Emotions, personality, ethics and the interview
14. Whose knowledge, whose benefit? Ethical dilemmas of participatory mapping
15. Seeing both sides: Ethical challenges of conducting gender-sensitive fieldwork
Part4. Ethical Dilemmas of Engagement
16. ‘You can be jailed here by even me talking to you’: Dilemmas and difficulties relating to informed consent, confidentiality and anonymity
17. Giving the vulnerable a voice: Ethical considerations when conducting research with children and young people
18. Power play: Ethical dilemmas of dealing with local officials and politicians
19. Exercising my rights: Ethical choices and moral predicaments in accessing government documents
20. Restaurants and Renqing: Ethical challenges of conducting interviews with business people over dinner
21. Can you please all of the people some of the time? Ethical challenges in making research relevant to academia, policy and practice So what kind of student are you?’ The ethics of ‘giving back’ to research participants
23. Afterword