Now updated to include research using archival, textual and virtual data this Second Edition continues to provide students with an invaluable, hands-on guide to doing fieldwork in both the developing and western world.

'Without doubt the best available guide to dealing with practical, methodological and ethical issues in 'development' research, within and across 'North' and 'South'. It addresses both long-standing and more recently emerging research issues with sensitivity, insight, good sense and a clear commitment to engaged, responsible research practices and relationships' - Dr. Emma Mawdsley, University of Cambridge