Reimagining Utopias

Textbooks on research methods and theory rarely recognize the contextualized nature of social science, yet this book challenges the existing paradigms and frameworks by arguing that post-socialist settings (like other geopolitical contexts) pose unique methodological, theoretical, and ethical dilemmas which merit careful attention, critical scrutiny, and creative untangling. Each chapter reveals unique theoretical, methodological, and ethical dilemmas encountered by social science researchers and uses illustrative cases to examine researchers’ experiences in navigating complex fieldwork dilemmas in a wide range of post-socialist settings. Spanning the fields of education, political science, sociology, anthropology, and history, this interdisciplinary book is an essential reference point for scholarship on post-socialist education research and will appeal to students, scholars, and researchers in a range of disciplines, as well as to practitioners in the field of international development.