Terrains « sans contact » : l’enquête qualitative en sciences sociales pendant la pandémie

This article discusses the adaptation strategies and lessons that enabled ten PhD students from the Centre for International Studies (CERI, CNRS/Sciences Po) to continue their research after the implementation of the Covid-19 lockdown measures. Despite the variety of methods and fields, our research...

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Main Authors: Camille Abescat, Pablo Barnier-Khawam, Alix Chaplain, Léonard Colomba-Petteng, Claire Duboscq, Ronan Jacquin, Elisabeth Miljkovic, Sophie Russo, Jusmeet S. Sihra, Anaëlle Vergonjeanne
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Published: ENS Éditions 2022-10-01
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/traces/13768
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author Camille Abescat
Pablo Barnier-Khawam
Alix Chaplain
Léonard Colomba-Petteng
Claire Duboscq
Ronan Jacquin
Elisabeth Miljkovic
Sophie Russo
Jusmeet S. Sihra
Anaëlle Vergonjeanne
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description This article discusses the adaptation strategies and lessons that enabled ten PhD students from the Centre for International Studies (CERI, CNRS/Sciences Po) to continue their research after the implementation of the Covid-19 lockdown measures. Despite the variety of methods and fields, our research, both in form and substance, has been radically affected by the pandemic. We show how conducting “contactless” research led us to develop alternative methods of data collection, reformulate our research questions and modify our objects of analysis. We posit that qualitative remote research tends to operate an epistemological refocusing, both geographic and institutional, and to distract researchers from unconnected actors as well as informal practices. Finally, we question the heuristic dimension of this methodological “patchwork”, which is contingent to all research in social sciences, and the epistemological value of these alternative methods by formalising them.
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spellingShingle Camille Abescat
Pablo Barnier-Khawam
Alix Chaplain
Léonard Colomba-Petteng
Claire Duboscq
Ronan Jacquin
Elisabeth Miljkovic
Sophie Russo
Jusmeet S. Sihra
Anaëlle Vergonjeanne
Terrains « sans contact » : l’enquête qualitative en sciences sociales pendant la pandémie
Tracés
ethnography
methodology
Covid-19
digital fieldwork
interview
title Terrains « sans contact » : l’enquête qualitative en sciences sociales pendant la pandémie
title_full Terrains « sans contact » : l’enquête qualitative en sciences sociales pendant la pandémie
title_fullStr Terrains « sans contact » : l’enquête qualitative en sciences sociales pendant la pandémie
title_full_unstemmed Terrains « sans contact » : l’enquête qualitative en sciences sociales pendant la pandémie
title_short Terrains « sans contact » : l’enquête qualitative en sciences sociales pendant la pandémie
title_sort terrains sans contact l enquete qualitative en sciences sociales pendant la pandemie
topic ethnography
methodology
Covid-19
digital fieldwork
interview
url https://journals.openedition.org/traces/13768
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