The Importance of Being Wrong: Interpreting the Roots of Change in Rural Thailand

Jonathan Rigg

doi:10.1007/978-981-16-2438-4_3

The Importance of Being Wrong: Interpreting the Roots of Change in Rural Thailand

Jonathan Rigg

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This chapter reflects on more than three decades of ‘being wrong’. In so doing, it partly highlights the point that we should expect to be wrong when it comes to research in the social sciences and humanities, and possibly be wrong more than ‘right’. Being wrong is nothing to hide: our ideas need to be exposed to being proved, in time, wrong. Evidently, this is the way in which we get things right. The chapter dwells on four aspects of error, focusing in turn on the methods we use, the theoretical or conceptual framings we employ, our interpretations of the ‘data’ we generate, and the histories we recount. To make the case, the chapter will draw and reflect on field research in rural Thailand.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Fieldwork and the Self
Subtitle of host publication	Changing Research Styles in Southeast Asia
Editors	Jeremy Jammes, Victor T. King
Publisher	Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
Pages	55-73
Number of pages	19
ISBN (Electronic)	978-981-16-2438-4
ISBN (Print)	978-981-16-2437-7
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-2438-4_3
Publication status	Published - 10 Nov 2021

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Name	Asia in Transition
Volume	12
ISSN (Print)	2364-8252
ISSN (Electronic)	2364-8260

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Error
Fieldwork
Methods
Research
Rural
Thailand

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