The safety dance: Confronting harassment, intimidation, and violence in the field

JOURNAL:  Sociological methodology
AUTHORS: Gwen Sharp and Emily Kremer
SUMMARY:  This paper discusses how gender dynamics may put female researchers at risk of harassment or even violence from participants, research assistants, or bystanders whenn conducting field work. Based on a review of the existing literature on fieldwork safety, as well as the authors' own experiences interviewing male participants, the authors argue that attention to protecting subjects of research has led the social science community to largely igore the possibility that in some cases, researchers themselves may be at risk.
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CULTURAL REFERENCE:  «The Safety Dance» es un sencillo de ventas importantes en la década de los años 1980 del grupo synth pop Men Without Hats escrito por el cantante Ivan Doroschuk. Publicado en Estados Unidos en el año 1982 y en Reino Unido en 1983, la canción alcanzó el puesto n.º 3 en la lista Billboard Hot 100 y n.º 1 en Billboard Dance Chart.

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