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Navigating the challenges of fieldwork and childcare: Revisiting ‘muddy glee’
Author(s) -
Bastia Tanja,
Hope Jessica,
Jenkins Katy,
Lemanski Charlotte,
Meth Paula,
Moeller Nina,
Williams Glyn
Publication year - 2022
Publication title -
area
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.958
H-Index - 82
eISSN - 1475-4762
pISSN - 0004-0894
DOI - 10.1111/area.12834
Subject(s) - negotiation , conversation , bureaucracy , sociology , public relations , media studies , political science , social science , law , communication , politics
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.