I have been trained as a qualitative researcher with a strong focus on fieldwork and research ethics. A lot has already been written on fieldwork and research ethics. With this areas of interest, I aim to highlight the ways in which Africans and diasporic Africans navigate their own fieldwork.
J'ai été formé à la recherche qualitative qui met l'accent sur l'enquête de terrain et l'éthique. Beaucoup de travaux sont disponibles sur l'enquête de terrain et l'éthique de la recherche. Dans ce domaine d'intérêt, je cherche à mettre en lumière la manière dont les Africains et les Africains diasporiques naviguent dans leurs enquêtes de terrain.
Vlavonou, Gino (with Annalisa Bolin and Tatiana Carayannis). 2024. “A Day Without Global North Researchers: Making Space for Equitable Collaboration after COVID” Qualitative Research 24, no. 6: 1353–1369.
Vlavonou, Gino. 2023. “Negotiating Positionality as a Student and Researcher in Africa: Understanding how seniority and race mediate elite interviews in African fieldwork.” International Studies Review 25, no.1 https://doi.org/10.1093/isr/viac064
Vlavonou, Gino. 2021. “On Disciplinary Encounters: IR and Fieldwork.” Journal of Narrative Politics 8, no. 1: 10-14.
Vlavonou, Gino. 2021. “Skin Connections: Negotiating Institutional Ethics alongside Insider Identities.” in Field Research in Africa: The Ethics of Researcher Vulnerabilities. Eds. An Ansoms, Aymar Nyenyezi, Susan Thomson, 11-28. James Currey.
Vlavonou, Gino (with Adib Bencherif). 2020. “Reflexive Tension: An Auto-Ethnographic Journey through the Discipline of International Relations in Western Academic Training.” African Identities 19, no. 4 : 453-472.