ABSTRACT
This chapter applies a High-Risk Ethnography (HRE) conceptual framework to fi eld research in distressed environments, but is equally relevant to any type of social science hazardous fi eld research, including the fi eld of terrorism studies. This author is a social anthropologist specializing in terrorism studies, and hopefully the crossover will appear obvious and painless. Through specifi c examples, this chapter argues that academia is currently ill-equipped to handle social science research activities that occur in high-risk areas.
