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4. The Safety Dance: Confronting Harassment, Intimidation, and Violence in the Field
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This paper discusses how gender dynamics may put female researchers at risk of harassment or even violence from participants, research assistants, or bystanders when conducting fieldwork. Based on a review of the existing literature on fieldwork safety, as well as the authors' own experiences interviewing male participants, the authors argue that attention to protecting subjects of research has led the social science community to largely ignore the possibility that in some cases, researchers themselves may be at risk. The paper concludes with suggested strategies for increasing researcher safety during data collection, as well as a call for issues of fieldwork safety to be more openly discussed by supervisors, professors, advisors, and others who guide novice researchers through the fieldwork process.
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“Such sexist and racist harassment is by no means a novel hazard (see Green etal., 1993; Sharp and Kremer, 2006), however, it assumes new forms in our networked information society, where intimate personal details can be obtained and wielded at the touch of a button with devastating consequences (Greyson etal., 2019).”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Sharp, G., & Kremer, E.
- Affiliations
- Southern Utah University (US)
- University of Wisconsin–Madison (US)
- Corresponding author
- Sharp, Gwen
- ORCID
- Sharp, Gwen
- Venue
- Sociological Methodology
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications
- Published
- 2006-08
- Volume
- 36
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 317-327
- ISSN
- 0081-1750 (ISSN-L)
- 1467-9531
- OpenAlex
- W2055476260
- Cited by
- 103
- References
- 20
- Citations by year
- 2026: 5 · 2025: 7 · 2024: 12 · 2023: 6 · 2022: 7 · 2021: 8 · 2020: 12 · 2019: 10 · 2018: 7 · 2017: 7 · 2016: 5 · 2015: 3 · 2014: 1 · 2013: 2 · 2012: 1
- FWCI
- 5.81
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Sociological Methodology (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Qualitative Research Methods and Ethics
- Social Sciences › Gender Studies › Sexual Assault and Victimization Studies
- Social Sciences › Business, Management and Accounting › Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management › Workplace Violence and Bullying
- Keywords
- researcher safety, harassment, intimidation, violence, gender dynamics, female researchers, fieldwork safety, research assistants, bystanders, research participant protection, novice researchers, supervision
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