Disasters in Field Research: Preparing for and Coping with Unexpected Events

Disasters in Field Research: Preparing for and coping with unexpected events is an excellent field research guide book not only for beginners, but also a check-list for experts. I found the book interesting and enriching as it extensively discusses actual challenges of conducting field research apart from theoretical courses that are mostly set in an ideal setting. The book focuses on collecting data in low or middle income countries and provides comprehensive guidance on all possible scenarios whom the authors have experienced themselves in their extensive field researches across different countries. At times amusing and other times sad, the book also benefits from extensive firsthand accounts of researchers in the fields and their means of coping or lack of thereof.It is a book I recommend not only for people who are planning for extended field researches out of their countries, but even for those who collect data in their local communities and familiar settings.

Great book...so useful

I think I was tricked into reading a textbook on how to prepare for field research as told through stories of how it shouldn't be done.Well written, well researched, and fun. This is a book done well.

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