paper for the session on “Doing Field Research in Dangerous Situations”
held at The European Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction:
“Conflict, Cooperation and Transformation in Everyday Life”, Erasmus
University Rotterdam, The Netherlands, July 46, 2012. I am also grateful
to Stefan Ziegler, Richard Kiely, and Oren Yiftachel for discussions and
engagements that inspired me to rethink the role of the social sciences in
conflict zones.
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