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Intersectionalities and Access in Fieldwork in Postconflict Liberia: Motherland, Motherhood and Minefields

Authors: YACOB-HALISO Olajumoke

Publication Type: Journal article

Journal: African Affairs

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This research note interrogates the varied ways in which researcher and research subjects’ intersectional identities complicate multiple levels of access to research participants, specifically with respect to research I conducted with refugee women who returned to Liberia after the end of the civil war in 2003. I argue that motherland (or nationality) and motherhood (or maternity) produce ‘minefields’ during fieldwork that a researcher has to navigate in achieving different levels of access to research subjects, particularly in postconflict situations. While the literature mostly discusses these issues from the perspective of non-Africans conducting fieldwork abroad, this essay analyses issues arising from being a young, female Nigerian conducting research with women, mostly mothers, in the same African sub-region. It explains how being a young, married, pregnant, and mothering Nigerian facilitated or obstructed access to research participants. This foregrounds the complexity of the insider/outsider debate for researchers conducting fieldwork in various contexts, and thereby contributes to the wider literatures on feminist methodologies and qualitative fieldwork.

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YACOB-HALISO,O. . (2019). Intersectionalities and Access in Fieldwork in Postconflict Liberia: Motherland, Motherhood and Minefields, 118 (), 168-168.

YACOB-HALISO,O. . "Intersectionalities and Access in Fieldwork in Postconflict Liberia: Motherland, Motherhood and Minefields" 118, no (), (2019): 168-168.

YACOB-HALISO,O. and . (2019). Intersectionalities and Access in Fieldwork in Postconflict Liberia: Motherland, Motherhood and Minefields, 118 (), pp168-168.

YACOB-HALISOO, . Intersectionalities and Access in Fieldwork in Postconflict Liberia: Motherland, Motherhood and Minefields. 2019, 118 ():168-168.

YACOB-HALISO,Olajumoke , . "Intersectionalities and Access in Fieldwork in Postconflict Liberia: Motherland, Motherhood and Minefields", 118 . (2019) : 168-168.

Y.Olajumoke , "Intersectionalities and Access in Fieldwork in Postconflict Liberia: Motherland, Motherhood and Minefields" vol.118, no., pp. 168-168, 2019.

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