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oapen-20.500.12657-850602023-11-15T09:17:26Z Researching Central Asia Dall'Agnola, Jasmin Sharshenova, Aijan Central Asia Field Research Decolonization Positionality Reflexivity Researcher’s ethnicity Central Asia Barometer Kazakhstan Tajikistan Research in Central Asia Post-Soviet Societies bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JP Politics & government::JPA Political science & theory bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JH Sociology & anthropology::JHM Anthropology::JHMC Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JP Politics & government This open access book explores some of the struggles and challenges that researchers and practitioners face when conducting research in the Central Asian research setting. Written for scholars still in the planning stages of their research, it addresses key questions, including: How shall we problematize and reconceptualize the concept of positionality through lenses of local voices from the region? How does practitioners’ and scholars’ positionality contribute to their experiences of inclusion, exclusion, and access to the field? How do scholars navigate issues of personal safety and mental well-being in the more closely monitored societies of Central Asia? The book includes contributors from both Central Asia and Western countries, paying particular attention to the ways researchers’ subjectivity shape how they are received in the region, which, in turn, influences how they write about and disseminate their research. In featuring an even greater variety of voices, this book fills an important gap in the literature on field research and knowledge production in and on Central Asia. 2023-11-13T16:42:01Z 2023-11-13T16:42:01Z 2024 book ONIX_20231113_9783031390241_19 9783031390241 9783031390234 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/85060 eng SpringerBriefs in Political Science application/pdf n/a 978-3-031-39024-1.pdf https://link.springer.com/978-3-031-39024-1 Springer Nature Springer Nature Switzerland 10.1007/978-3-031-39024-1 10.1007/978-3-031-39024-1 6c6992af-b843-4f46-859c-f6e9998e40d5 5b8bb1da-45a5-485e-abee-a3411769f507 9783031390241 9783031390234 Springer Nature Switzerland 104 Cham [...] open access
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This open access book explores some of the struggles and challenges that researchers and practitioners face when conducting research in the Central Asian research setting. Written for scholars still in the planning stages of their research, it addresses key questions, including: How shall we problematize and reconceptualize the concept of positionality through lenses of local voices from the region? How does practitioners’ and scholars’ positionality contribute to their experiences of inclusion, exclusion, and access to the field? How do scholars navigate issues of personal safety and mental well-being in the more closely monitored societies of Central Asia? The book includes contributors from both Central Asia and Western countries, paying particular attention to the ways researchers’ subjectivity shape how they are received in the region, which, in turn, influences how they write about and disseminate their research. In featuring an even greater variety of voices, this book fills an important gap in the literature on field research and knowledge production in and on Central Asia.
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