Fieldwork as Failure: Living and Knowing in the Field of International Relations

This volume aims to unsettle the silence that surrounds fieldwork failure in both methods training and academic publications. While fieldwork has gradually evolved into standard practice in IR research the question of possible failures in field-based knowledge production remains conspicuously absent from both graduate training and writing in IR. This volume fills that lacuna by engaging with fieldwork as a site of knowledge production and inevitable failure. It develops methodological discussions in IR in two novel ways. First it engages failure through experience-near and practice-based perspectives with authors speaking from their experiences. And secondly it delves into the politics of methods in IR and the discipline more generally to probe ways in which the realities of research condition scholarly claims.ContributorsBerit Bliesemann de Guevara Lydia C. Cole Jan Daniel Sezer İdil Göğüş Johannes Gunesch Danielle House Xymena Kurowska Ewa Maczynska Emma Mc Cluskey Holger Niemann Amina Nolte Desirée Poets and Renata Summa.