Field Research in Africa – The Ethics of Researcher Vulnerabilities

Foreword: It is about Us - Elísio Macamo Map of Africa showing Fields of Research Introduction: Fields of Vision, Emotion as Reflexivity - Susan Thomson, An Ansoms, and Aymar Nyenyezi Bisoka 1. Skin Connections: Negotiating Institutional Ethics alongside Insider Identities - Gino Vlavonou 2. Conducting Sensitive Research 'At Home': A Matter of Responsibility - Emery Mushagalusa Mudinga 3. A Gendered Research Journey: Ethical Dilemmas of an Algerian Immigrant Recovering the Memory of 'Home' - Ghaliya N. Djelloul 4. Establishing Kinship in Diaspora: Conducting Research among Fellow Congolese Immigrants of Cape Town - Rosette Sifa Vuninga 5. 'If they find out, we're dead': Intermediaries, Self-censorship, and Anxiety in Research as an Outsider-insider - Aymar Nyenyezi Bisoka 6. Looking Behind the Screen: Ethical Quagmires when Accessing Hidden Discourses - An Ansoms 7. Scholar-Activist? On Relational Accountability and an Ethic of Dissemination - Susan Thomson Conclusion: Theorizing Self as Ethical Research Practice - Susan Thomson, An Ansoms and Aymar Nyenyezi Bisoka Bibliography