Bastia, Tanja, Hope, Jessica, Jenkins, Katy, Lemanski, Charlotte, Meth, Paula, Moeller, Nina and Williams, Glyn (2022) Navigating the challenges of fieldwork and childcare: Revisiting ‘muddy glee’. Area, 54 (4). pp. 569-573. ISSN 0004-0894
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Abstract
This commentary emerges from our collective interest in, and reflections on, the multiple ways in which parents working within Development Geography in UK academia negotiate the complexities of combining periods of overseas fieldwork with family life. Here, we bring our varied experiences of navigating these challenges (emotional, bureaucratic, and practical) into conversation with Bracken and Mawdsley's ‘Muddy glee,’ highlighting the ways in which a recognition of academics', especially female academics', childcare responsibilities has been largely absent from discussions around conducting fieldwork, specifically development fieldwork in the global South.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | care, childcare, development geography, fieldwork, Global South |
| Subjects: | L700 Human and Social Geography |
| Department: | Faculties > Engineering and Environment > Geography and Environmental Sciences |
| Depositing User: | Elena Carlaw |
| Date Deposited: | 29 Nov 2022 09:38 |
| Last Modified: | 29 Nov 2022 09:45 |
| URI: | https://nrl.northumbria.ac.uk/id/eprint/50756 |
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