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dc.contributor.advisorFetherston, A. Betts
dc.contributor.advisorChesters, Graeme S.
dc.contributor.authorMuir, Rachel*
dc.date.accessioned2018-02-19T12:11:57Z
dc.date.available2018-02-19T12:11:57Z
dc.date.issued2012
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10454/15000
dc.description.abstractThis thesis explores how research is implicated in the constitution of post-war environments, and gives an account of being and becoming a researcher in post-war Bosnia. My main contention is that when peace and conflict researchers conduct research in post-war contexts, their presence, practices, and the consequential production of knowledge and representations, have political effects. I argue that the implications of this have not been fully explained, acknowledged, or problematised within Conflict Resolution, which tends to rely on research approaches and assumptions taken from ‘normal’ science. This thesis suggests how reflexivity and alternatives methodologies, including visual research might be used to represent the emotional, sensory, and often intangible elements of post-war realities. It enacts an engagement in the politics of research and uses reflexive writing and visual methods to draw attention to the importance of the relational aspects of research in postwar environments. Visual journeys are also used to argue that visual methods can provide a way of revisiting the epistemological and ontological assumptions about lived experiences and realities in post-war settings. The thesis is based upon one year of ethnographic fieldwork undertaken in Bosnia, and is also informed by eighteen months of volunteer work with a Bosnian Community Centre in Dewsbury, West Yorkshire.en_US
dc.description.sponsorshipEconomic and Social Research Council (ESRC)en_US
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.rights<a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/"><img alt="Creative Commons License" style="border-width:0" src="http://i.creativecommons.org/l/by-nc-nd/3.0/88x31.png" /></a><br />The University of Bradford theses are licenced under a <a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/">Creative Commons Licence</a>.eng
dc.subjectConflict resolution; Research; Post-war Bosnia and Hercegovina; Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs); Fieldwork; Research methodology; Discourse; Visual representation; Reflexivityen_US
dc.titleRethinking conflict resolution research in post-war Bosnia and Hercegovina: A genealogical and ontological explorationen_US
dc.type.qualificationleveldoctoralen_US
dc.publisher.institutionUniversity of Bradfordeng
dc.publisher.departmentFaculty of Social Sciencesen_US
dc.typeThesiseng
dc.type.qualificationnamePhDen_US
dc.date.awarded2012
refterms.dateFOA2018-07-28T03:10:06Z


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