Emotional and Ethical Challenges for Field Research in Africa

1. Introduction: Why Stories Behind the Findings?
Susan Thomson, An Ansoms, Jude Murison

2. From Humanitarian to Anthropologist: Writing at the Margins of Ethnographic Research in the Democratic Republic of Congo
Luca Jourdan

3. The Contested Fruits of Research in War-Torn Countries: My Insider Experience in Northern Uganda
Lino Owor Ogora

4. Dislodging Power Structures in Rural Rwanda: From ‘Disaster Tourist’ to ‘Transfer Gate’
An Ansoms

5. Challenges of Interviewing Political Elites: A View from the Top in Post-War Burundi
Judith Vorrath

6. The RPF Control Everything! Fear and Rumour under Rwanda’s Genocide Ideology Legislation
Larissa Begley

7. From Scientific Research to Action in Southern Kivu: Ethical Dilemmas and Practical Challenges
Julie Damme

8. Research as ‘Social Work’ in Kampala? Managing Expectations, Compensation and Relationships in Research with Unassisted, Urban Refugees from the Democratic Republic of Congo
Christina R. Clark-Kazak

9.
Nacibazo, ‘No Problem’: Moving Behind the Official Discourse of Post-Genocide Justice in Rwanda
Yolande Bouka

10. Dealing with Deceit: Fieldwork Encounters and Lies in Burundi
Lidewyde H. Berckmoes

11. Academic Integrity and Ethical Responsibilities in Post-Genocide Rwanda: Working with Research Ethics Boards to Prepare for Fieldwork with ‘Human Subjects’
Susan Thomson

Keywords: Social Sciences, Anthropology, Methodology of the Social Sciences, Social Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology, Sociology, general, Literature, general