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Sources of evidence and openness in field-intensive research on violent conflict
Sources of evidence and openness in field-intensive research on violent conflict

This article engages with Steven Lubet’s arguments in Interrogating Ethnography on reliability of evidence and replication of findings in ethnographic research. It draws on eight months of immersive fieldwork on Abkhaz mobilization in the Geor [...]

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/21565503.2021.1950015
Type: Journal Articles
Trying Lubet’s ethnography: On methodology, writing, and ethics
Trying Lubet’s ethnography: On methodology, writing, and ethics

By the early 2000s, immersed in fieldwork methods literatures (participant-observer ethnography, interviewing, and document-based research), I increasingly saw that “evidence” meant something different in different research and professional pr [...]

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/21565503.2021.1963993
Type: Journal Articles
Ethnography on Trial: Introduction to the Dialogue
Ethnography on Trial: Introduction to the Dialogue

While [ethnographers] do seek to uncover the rules of action, such rules are not as clearly discoverable as law is to lawyers – through examination of definitive statements. Most rules of social behavior are tacit and unstated. Frequently they [...]

License: CC BY-NC-ND
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/21565503.2021.1963992
Type: Journal Articles