Download or read book The Politics and Ethics of Fieldwork written by Maurice Punch and published by SAGE Publications, Incorporated. This book was released on 1986 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sustained, intensive fieldwork involves the negotiation of trust between the researcher and the researched. In The Politics and Ethics of Fieldwork, Maurice Punch catalogues and illustrates occasions of trust-making and breaking among the many parties who are actively engaged in a research project. This is not, however, a dry listing of do's and don'ts. Professor Punch has provided a vivid, witty, sometimes ironic presentation packed with lively personal detail.