Navigating the challenges of fieldwork and childcare: revisiting Muddy Glee

Tanja Bastia; Jessica Hope; Katy Jenkins; Charlotte Lemanski; Paula Meth; Nina Moeller; Glyn Williams

doi:10.1111/area.12834

Navigating the challenges of fieldwork and childcare: revisiting Muddy Glee

Tanja Bastia^*, Jessica Hope, Katy Jenkins, Charlotte Lemanski, Paula Meth, Nina Moeller, Glyn Williams

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Abstract

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.

Original language	English
Number of pages	5
Journal	Area
Volume	Early View
Early online date	17 Oct 2022
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1111/area.12834
Publication status	E-pub ahead of print - 17 Oct 2022

Keywords

Care
Childcare
Development geography
Fieldwork
Global South

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