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Experience of Negotiating Access in the “Field”: Lessons for Future Research
World Journal of Social Science Research
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Experience of Negotiating Access in the “Field”: Lessons for Future Research
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Fobosi, Siyabulela C.
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Accessing the field for the purposes of conducting research often starts with negotiation and engagement with gatekeepers. This is the first requirement for the research to be conducted; however, this step has challenges. While research has been conducted on negotiating access and research ethics, very little is known about the experiences of doctoral students from the Global South on negotiating access in fieldwork, and thus giving an account of what it entails conducting qualitative research from the Global South. As such, this article engages with the challenges of negotiating access to the field for my PhD studies. Due to the nature of research for my thesis, I conducted interviews with key informants from the departments and participants from the taxi ranks. In this article, I problematize the view that gaining access to the field is a simple process, by exposing my own uncomfortable encounters during the process.
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SCHOLINK CO.,LTD
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2019-10-16
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info:eu-repo/semantics/article
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion Peer-reviewed Article |
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application/pdf
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http://www.scholink.org/ojs/index.php/wjssr/article/view/2357
10.22158/wjssr.v6n4p503 |
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World Journal of Social Science Research; Vol 6, No 4 (2019); p503
2332-5534 2375-9747 |
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eng
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http://www.scholink.org/ojs/index.php/wjssr/article/view/2357/2455
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| Rights |
Copyright (c) 2019 Siyabulela C. Fobosi
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 |
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