The Dual Imperative in Refugee Research: Some Methodological and Ethical Considerations in Social Science Research on Forced Migration by Jacobsen, Karen, Landau, Loren B.

“…Social scientists doing fieldwork in humanitarian situations often face a dual imperative: research should be both academically sound and policy relevant. …”
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Three Provocations for Civic Crowdfunding by Davies, Rodrigo

“…The work draws on critical case studies constructed through fieldwork in the US, the UK and Brazil, and a discourse analysis of civic crowdfunding projects collected from platforms by the author. …”
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Renewable ethnography: Ethnographic pebbles & Labyrinths in the way of theory by Fischer, Michael M. J.

“…Six dissertations and five approaches to pedagogy for first (dissertation) fieldwork are reviewed.…”
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Not Quite Shamans: Spirit Worlds and Political Lives in Northern Mongolia by Morten Axel Pedersen (review) by Buyandelger, Manduhai

“…Morten Axel Pedersen conducted his fieldwork in northern Mongolia—in Shishged Depression among Darhads, who are famous, at least in Mongolia, for having the most “authentic” shamans. …”
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Quantitative research and issues of political sensitivity in rural China by Tsai, Lily L.

“…Political sensitivity is always a challenge for the scholar doing fieldwork in nondemocratic and transitional systems, especially when doing surveys and quantitative research. …”
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Book review of: China with a Cut: Globalisation, Urban Youth and Popular Music. Jeroen de Kloet. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2010. 264 pp. by Condry, Ian

“…Jeroen de Kloet’s ethnographic monograph, China with a Cut, presents fascinating insights into the complexity and diversity of rock music in China, focusing on the 1990s until around 2008. Through fieldwork, interviews, and historical comparisons, the author takes us on a journey, from dingy Beijing clubs featuring in-your-face punks to the coffee houses of folk-rock balladeers to the stadiums of pop-rock mega stars. …”
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Nature/Culture/Seawater by Helmreich, Stefan

“…I develop this argument using ethnographic materials drawn from fieldwork among oceanographers working in the Sargasso Sea and in the Sea Islands. …”
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Rolling Out a "World Car": Globalization, Outsourcing and Modularity by Camuffo, Arnaldo

“…of a "world car" (the Fiat Palio). Based on original fieldwork carried on by the author in 6 countries (Italy, Brazil, Poland, Turkey, Argentina, India), it describes one of the most diverse international strategies in the recent history of the auto industry and represents an interesting terrain for analyzing how, in relationship with globalization, outsourcing and modularity play an increasing role in auto design and manufacturing. …”
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Good Cops, Bad Cops: Working the Binaries in the NYPD (Book Review) by Van Maanen, John

“…Jennifer Hunt, a professor at Montclair State College, put years of deep and dogged fieldwork to work in crafting a superb and highly inventive organizational ethnography of the New York Police Department. …”
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What do firm boundaries do? : employment relationships and transaction governance in internal and outsourced IT projects by Bidwell, Matthew James, 1974-

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Empirical studies of bottom-up internet governance by Sowell, Jesse

“…These studies contribute to understanding how decentralized “close-knit yet loosely organized” communities coordinate localized operational capacity (direct access to private network operations and security incidents) to achieve global operational and decisional capacity sufficient to address problems as they arise, at Internet clockspeed. Ongoing fieldwork provides early insights into these processes. …”
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