%0 Journal Article
%T Dancing with danger: ethnographic safety, male bravado and gang research in Colombia
%A Adam Baird
%J Qualitative Research
%@ 1741-3109
%D 2018
%R 10.1177/1468794117722194
%X This article considers the dilemmas and challenges of conducting fieldwork with youth gang members in Medell¨ªn, Colombia. It draws upon the author¡¯s experiences to develop the notion of ¡®ethnographic safety¡¯, where researchers learn to perceive and avert danger by gaining a ¡®feel for the rules of the game¡¯ (Bourdieu, 1992) in violent communities; it problematizes the role that the researcher¡¯s gender and ¡®male bravado¡¯ played in accessing and interviewing gang members; considers the ethical conundrums of building rapport with criminal subjects; and discusses the challenges of working in complex, chronically violent communities where there are no simple dichotomies between victims and perpetrators of violence
%K Bourdieu
%K dangerous research
%K ethnography
%K gangs
%K masculinities
%K Medell¨ªn
%K research ethics
%K researcher safety
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1468794117722194