How to do field work in city
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Field research in cities and megacitiesdiffers from the traditional fieldwork in rural and tribal areas as the researcher is generally part of a multimillion population and often known to a limited number of people in the city. The globalization of society has created new possibilities for frequent short visits to the research area. Once long fieldwork visits of one or several years dominated and were preferred, whereas nowadays a series of shorter visits to the same area are possible, even necessary because of the publish-or-perish pressures in the academic world. It has also become possible to study multiple locations, for example, in the case of migration both the area of departure and the receiving area. Marcus (1995), Hannerz (2003), and Falzon (2009) have elaborated on this relatively new fieldwork tendency called multisited