The Anxieties of Disrupted Fieldwork: Reconciling Practicality and Passion in Redesigning a Research Plan
Many scholars often face significant logistical and empirical limitations on the “best case scenario” execution of their research projects. Both progress and setbacks are inherent parts of the research process.
Archival Fieldwork in a Pandemic World: Reflections from Ghana
Beginning in the last week of January 2020, I nonchalantly followed world news from the TV screen at my gym in Arlington, VA about a virus outbreak in China. I did not seem to be bothered much about the happenings. After all, media discussions made it seem distant from the rest of the world.
Flexibility, Generosity, and Community in the Time of COVID
I was going to write a different book. For the last five years, I had been planning a book that traced debates about the shape of Accra, Ghana’s capital city, from the late 19th century through the present.