Over Researched Places

Towards a Critical and Reflexive Approach
1. Auflage 2022
ISBN: 978-0-367-56771-2
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 180 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 443 g

Reihe: Routledge Studies in Human Geography

The book explores the implications that research-density has on the people and places researched, on the researchers, on the data collected and knowledge produced, and on the theories that are developed.

It examines the effects that research-density has on the people and places researched, on the researchers, on the data collected and knowledge produced, and on the theories that are developed. By weaving together experiences from a variety of countries and across disciplinary boundaries and research methods, the volume outlines the roots of over-research, where it comes from and what can be done about it.

The book will be useful for social science students and researchers working in ethnographic disciplines such as Human Geography, Anthropology, Urban Planning, and Sociology and seeking to navigate the tricky ‘absent present’ of already existing research on their fields of exploration.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate and Undergraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Button, Cat

Taylor Aiken, Gerald

Fachgebiete

• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Geographie: Allgemeines, Karten & Atlanten
• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Humangeographie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Over-research: what, why, when, where, how? 1. Towards a theory of over-researched places 2. Overcoming over-research? Reflections from Sydney’s ‘Petri dish’ 3. Epistemological, decolonial, and critical reflections in constructing research in former Yugoslavia 4. Ghosts of researchers past, present, and future in Mumbai 5. La Duchère, Lyon, France: an over-researched place that ignores itself 6. ‘Research has killed the Israeli-Palestinian conflict’: navigating the over-researched field of the West Bank 7. Overlooked cities and under researched Bharatpur, Nepal 8. When over-researchedness is invisibilised in bibliographic databases: insights from a case study about the Arctic region 9. Confessions of an ‘academic tourist’: reflections on accessibility, trust, and research ethics in the ‘Grandhotel Cosmopolis’ 10. Locating climate change research: the privileges and pitfalls of choosing over- and under-researched places

Über Autor(innen)

Cat Button is a senior lecturer in the School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape at Newcastle University, UK. She creates interdisciplinary and international research on the global challenges of water. She is currently a co-investigator on two UKRI GCRF Hubs: Water Security and Sustainable Development and Living Deltas.

Gerald Taylor Aiken is a research associate at the Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research (LISER) and a fellow at the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society. He researches the role of community in pursuing low-carbon futures, particularly how community is used to understand, value, and relate to the environment.