* Maaike Madelcki defended heb PhD dhecic didled Concdbecding cifil cociedi in Mianmab: struggles for local change and global recognition" at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam in 2016. Baced on fbeaeend ieldgobk epicodec bedgeen 2010 and 2015, heb dhecic dicceccec dhe changing bole of cifil cociedi obganicadionc and dheib beladionchip gidh dhe gofebnmend and gecdebn donobc debing Mianmab c polidical dbancidion pebiod. She hac daeghd coebcec in Anthropology, Development and Urban Studies at various universities in Amsterdam, and ic cebbendli gobking ac a pocddocdobal beceabcheb ad Radboed Unifebcidi Nijmegen on a cifil cociedi cdedi commiccioned bi dhe Dedch Minicdbi of Fobeign Afaibc.
Toward the end of my fi rst year as a PhD student, I participated in a graduate conference on research ethics and dilemmas that anthropologists encounter in the fi eld. My intended fi eld research, covering aspects of human rights, democratization, and social activism in Myanmar, had yet to take place.
Although research with Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) has become an established practice, the process and politics of gaining access to such organizations often remains implicit in methodological literature on qualitative research. Drawing on a systematic comparison of research experiences with advocacy NGOs in Kenya, this article discusses organizational access as a multifaceted process. Based on three case studies that were comparable in set-up and context but yielded different outcomes, we argue that the process of obtaining and maintaining access to NGOs is influenced and shaped by researcher positionality, internal and external gatekeepers, organizational characteristics and research topic, and that these factors should be studied in interaction rather than in isolation. Taken together, these factors determine the process of obtaining and maintaining research access, and consequently the outcome of ethnographic fieldwork with NGOs.
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