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SUMMARY:CMES Seminar: Challenges and Strategies for Fieldwork in Repressive
  and Illiberal Countries.
DESCRIPTION:Contact: lisa.strombom@svet.lu.se\n\nScholars conducting resear
 ch in their native repressive or illiberal countries face a range of chall
 enges that are distinct from those experienced by non-native scholars. The
 se challenges include the burden of family history\, gender\, ethnic or re
 ligious identity\, legal threats and administrative penalties specifically
  targeting native scholars\, punishment by authorities and retribution on 
 friends and family\, as well as exploitation by non-native academics and i
 nstitutions. While many recent publications have sought to underline the c
 hallenges of fieldwork under authoritarian settings (see Krause and Szekel
 y (2020)\, and Clark and Cavatorta (2018) with respect to the MENA region\
 ; Janenova (2019) and Driscoll (2021) for Central Asia\; Bell (2013) for p
 arts of the Caribbean\; Laher\, Fynn and Kramer (2019) for part of sub-Sah
 aran Africa\; Goode (2010\, 2016) for Eastern Europe and Russia\; and Reny
  (2016) and Wang 2019 for East Asia)\, these publications largely failed t
 o examine the distinct difficulties confronted by native scholars or offer
  concrete strategies concerning how to deal with these challenges on the g
 round. This presentation builds on the testimonies of twenty native resear
 chers who conducted research in sixteen repressive or illiberal countries 
 to highlight the specific challenges they have experienced as scholars nat
 ive to those countries. The second part of the presentation will present a
  number of strategies these scholars have developed to address the challen
 ges they faced as scholars native to repressive/illiberal states conductin
 g research in their home countries\, including increased transparency with
  local authorities\, relationship management with local gatekeepers\, rese
 arch and publication deferral\, and the re-centering of the experiences of
  native scholars in fieldwork methodology training. Finally\, this present
 ation will seek to amplify the voices of these native scholars by offering
  a number of recommendations to Institutional Review Boards (IRBs) and edi
 torial boards in Western institutions.COFFEE\, TEA\, AND PASTRIES ARE SERV
 ED AFTER EACH SEMINAR.ALL WARMLY WELCMOME!\n\nMore information about the e
 vent: https://www.cmes.lu.se/calendar/cmes-seminar-challenges-and-strategi
 es-fieldwork-repressive-and-illiberal-countries
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LOCATION:CMES seminar room\, Finngatan 16.
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