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Olga Zevelva (Department of Sociology)
Tuesday 30 January 2018, 11:00-12:00
Picking the wrong hotel & other stories: wartime research on contested territories
- đ¤ Speaker: Olga Zevelva (Department of Sociology)
- đ Date & Time: Tuesday 30 January 2018, 11:00 - 12:00
- đ Venue: Seminar Room, Department of Geography, Downing Site
Abstract
My thesis seeks to answer the question of how states limit the professional autonomy of journalists during times of political transformation. I conducted fieldwork in Crimea, Moscow, and Kyiv in 2016-2017, interviewing journalists who have worked on disputed territories and who have lived and worked through periods of regime change. My main field site, Crimea, is a peninsula on the Black Sea that was occupied and annexed by Russia in 2014. Since then, Russia and Ukraine have engaged in a territorial dispute over the region. I will discuss security issues I faced in the field, conceptual issues relating to my relationships with study participants, and open questions I am still facing as I analyse my data.
Series This talk is part of the Fieldwork Seminar: Methodologies in the 'field' series.
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