In the Library's collections
These subject headings will show resources for geographic fieldwork.
Introductory reading(s)
Encyclopedia of geography by Call Number: eBookThere are separate entries for fieldwork in Human and Physical Geography.
Encyclopedia of human geography by Call Number: Baker-Berry Ref. GF 4 .E54 2006ISBN: 9780761988588There is an entry on fieldwork.
Fieldwork in the Global South: Ethical Challenges and Dilemmas by Call Number: eBookISBN: 9781306539043Choosing to do fieldwork overseas, particularly in the Global South, is a challenge in itself. The researcher faces logistical complications, health and safety issues, cultural differences, language barriers, and much more.
Selected book titles
Doing fieldwork by Call Number: Baker/Berry GF 26.A53 D65 2001This is a reprint of a special issue from the Geographical Review. The issue was published for January-April 2001, volume 91, nos. 1-2.
Fieldwork in geography : reflections, perspectives and actions by Call Number: Baker/Berry G 74.5 .F518 2000ISBN: 0792363299
Journal articles and titles for fieldwork
Fieldwork as social transformation from Geopolitics
Call Number: Electronic journalThis special issue addresses the urgent need for reflexive introspection about conducting research in violent contexts. To do so, it explores two interrelated dimensions of the places where researchers conduct fieldwork: 1) temporality; and 2) power. (v. 26, no. 1, 2021)