The Palgrave Handbook of Social Fieldwork

1. Methodological issues in social research: Experience from the 21st century.- 2. An active partner in disgraceful context: research, surveillance and risk in the Chittagong Hill Tracts.- 3. Researching Garo Death Rites (reprint with revision).- 4. Negotiating the tyrannies of fieldwork in Africa: A Nigerian experience.- 5. Trial by fire: Reflections on fieldwork in Nagaland, Northeast India. 6. Encounters in the field: The influence of emotions on data.- 7. Developing relationships over many years: Under investigated but important types of qualitative Research.- 8. Sick in the Field: Illness and inter-being encounters in anthropological fieldwork.- 9. At the organ bazaar of Bangladesh: In search of kidney sellers (reprint with revision). 10. "Can we talk about surrogacy?" Legal precariousness and the perils of qualitative research in the biomedical Context.- 11. Qualitative 'fieldwork' in health geographic research: self-reports from Bangladesh.- 12. Adolescent drug abuse in Connecticut private high schools: Zero tolerance, contextual peer Influence, and deterrence effectiveness.- 13. Researchers' dilemmas and challenges in qualitative fieldwork with climate-vulnerable communities.- 14. Risks and challenges in fieldwork on gender-based violence: Identity, social taboo and culture.- 15. Rethinking ethnographic research as 'gendered and en-casted labour': Reflections from researching caste and partition-induced forced-migration in a non-metropolitan city of West Bengal.- 16. Photovoice as a method for women's empowerment in domestic violence: a reflexive account.- 17. Working with opposite gender: Experience of doing fieldwork among rural women in Bangladesh.- 18. Between an activist and academic: Contested (re)positioning in refugee research.- 19. Moving research methods to the field: Challenges and Lessons learned across African contexts.- 20. Entry, access, bans and returns: Reflections on positionality in field research on Central Asia's ethnic minorities.- 21.

Nasir Uddin is a cultural anthropologist based in Bangladesh and Professor of Anthropology at the University of Chittagong. He is the author of The Rohingya: An Ethnography of 'Subhuman' Life (2020) and Voices of the Rohingya People: A Case of Genocide, Ethnocide and 'Subhuman' Life (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022).

Alak Paul is Professor in the Department of Geography and Environmental Studies, at the University of Chittagong. He is the co-editor of Geography in Bangladesh: Concepts Methods and Applications (2019) and the author of HIV/AIDS in Bangladesh: Stigmatized People, Policy and Place (2020).