Biruk conducted her own research interviews with projects’ survey respondents (“research on research” as the fieldworkers called it). (page 126). How did she avoid replicating the same violence of research fatigue that she mentions throughout the book? This was one of my own main concerns and part of the reason I am not going to be focused on researching those who are already so heavily researched as part of my research design. I already know the phenomenon of “over-research” exists and a book like Biruk’s is now here to point to. I don’t need to do this work again. Now I am more interested in diving deep into the knowledge sharing infrastructure. I am taking a much more interventionist approach to my methodology by actually building or piloting an alternative (that is currently not in existence).
