The ARC Bibliography

The ARC Bibliography is a resource for researchers working in fragile, conflict or violence-affected contexts or on related topics. The majority of materials focus on the ethical, logistical, and methodological issues that may arise in such work.

At this point, these materials have been curated by scholars trained predominantly in political science and located in the US and Europe. We are avowedly methodologically and epistemologically pluralist. We have included materials from across research traditions and from scholars located around the world; the works are, however, predominantly in English. We include some relevant materials from sociology, anthropology, history, area studies, and other disciplines. We welcome further suggestions and additions via email.

Given the volume of scholarship available, this bibliography is a work in progress. We do our best to update our resources as new, relevant work is published and are continuously adding material (in particular, book chapters). We are a small group of scholars and we are not paid for our efforts, so additions may not always be immediate. We are unfortunately unable to send listed materials to people, but strive to link to un-gated publications when possible.

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The ARC Bibliography is divided into the following categories (click to view sections or download full bibliography in pdf here):

Research Ethics

Power, Politics, and Representation

Vulnerability, Emotions, and Trauma

Field Logistics, Data Security, and Risk Management

Institutional Review, IRBs, Ethics Codes

Publication, Research Openness, and Participant Protection

Researcher Identity, Reflexivity, and Positionality

Methods and Reflections on Fieldwork

There are also several blogs that focus expressly on these issues:

Anthrodendum: https://anthrodendum.org/about/

From Poverty to Power: https://oxfamblogs.org/fp2p/

Research in Difficult Settings: http://conflictfieldresearch.colgate.edu/

Governance in Conflict Network. “(Silent) Voices Blog: The Bukavu Series:” https://www.gicnetwork.be/silent-voices-blog-bukavu-series-eng/