Sociologies (May 2017)
Mes ratés de terrain
Abstract
I propose in this paper to return to the failures that have occurred during my life as a researcher in order to learn some lessons. I argue that, in human sciences, a failure in fieldwork is always better than no fieldwork at all. The triviality of such an assertion seems less strong when we pay attention to the denunciations of the “myth of fieldwork” made by some complacent intellectuals claiming to belong to social sciences.
