none 10.1075/btl.165.05sta John Benjamins Publishing Company John Benjamins Publishing Company 1757 176740334 6511813 1419183 202511100636000029 10.1075 2025-11-10T05:37:11Z 2025-05-21T03:11:43Z 0 0929-7316 10.1075/btl https://benjamins.com/ catalog/btl Regina Rogl University of Vienna https://ror.org/03prydq77 https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7991-3563 Daniela Schlager University of Vienna https://ror.org/03prydq77 https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5758-6960 Hanna Risku University of Vienna https://ror.org/03prydq77 https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2165-6669 This volume constitutes a significant step in establishing field research as a central methodological approach in translation and interpreting studies. Following an integrative approach, it addresses both translation and interpreting across professional, paraprofessional, and non-professional settings. The chapters in this volume focus on lived experiences in diverse, real-world contexts—including refugee centres, UN missions, NGOs, virtual environments, and the workplaces of specialised translators. They offer rich insights into the situated and dynamic nature of translation and interpreting practices and discuss common aspects and challenges such as the researchers’ reflexivity, ethical considerations, and the role of materiality in fieldwork. By shedding light on underexplored areas and offering critical reflections on field research methodology, the volume contributes to expanding the boundaries of translation and interpreting studies and deepening our understanding of translation and interpreting in their social and material contexts. Published with the support of the Austrian Science Fund (FWF). 165 5 15 2025 5 15 2025 9789027220301 9789027244857 John Benjamins Publishing Company Amsterdam 10.1075/btl.165 http://www.jbe-platform.com/content/books/9789027244857 https://www.jbe-platform.com/deliver/fulltext/9789027244857.pdf https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1075/btl.165/html Cornelia Staudinger University of Geneva https://ror.org/01swzsf04 Swiss Federal Chancellery https://orcid.org/0009-0007-2325-9743 Methodological and ethical strategies Abstract Performing in situ research using ethnographic methods can offer new valuable insights into complex phenomena such as the linguistic revision and legal review of multilingual legislative drafts. At the same time, it entails reflections on the type of involvement of the researcher. In this chapter, I describe how my role in the research setting has evolved from outside researcher to partial insider and eventually to full member. In particular, I illustrate the benefits and risks associated with my becoming an insider. To conclude, I challenge the dichotomy of insider versus outsider ; I argue that it is, first and foremost, crucial for the researcher to be transparent about their positionality and to consciously apply strategies to manage related benefits and risks. 5 15 2025 5 15 2025 117 136 10.1075/btl.165.05sta https://benjamins.com/catalog/btl.165.05sta https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1075/btl.165.05sta/html 10.4135/9781412984973 Handbook of Qualitative Research Adler 377 1994 Observational Techniques 10.1097/00124645-200303000-00008 10.1177/1468794112468475 10.2436/rld.i68.2017.2967 10.7748/nr2002.07.9.4.7.c6194 The Australian Community Psychologist Breen 19 1 163 2007 The Researcher ‘in the Middle’: Negotiating the Insider/Outsider Dichotomy 10.46743/2160-3715/2020.3928 10.1177/160940690900800105 10.4135/9781526437181 10.1080/0965079930010308 Ethnography: Principles in Practice Hammersley 3 2007 10.1080/13562510600874292 10.1080/2159676X.2020.1731576 10.4135/9781412985376 10.1093/sw/45.5.439 10.1111/j.1365-2648.2006.03681.x Translating Institutions: An Ethnographic Study of EU Translation Koskinen 2008 10.1080/14623940802005475 The SAGE Handbook of Qualitative Research Lincoln 5 213 2018 Paradigmatic Controversies, Contradictions, and Emerging Confluences, Revisited 10.17730/humo.43.4.7541kx083263l710 10.1080/03054980601094651 10.1086/225294 10.1016/j.emospa.2010.09.005 10.4324/9781315760100 Participant Observation Spradley 1980 The SAGE Handbook of Qualitative Research Stake 3 443 2005 Qualitative Case Studies How to Do Your Case Study: A Guide for Students and Researchers Thomas 2011 The Qualitative Report Unluer 1 2012 Being an Insider Researcher While Conducting Case Study Research 10.1177/107554708100300106 The Journal of Specialised Translation Yu 34 9 2020 10.26034/cm.jostrans.2020.135 Insider, Outsider or Multiplex Persona? Confessions of a Digital Ethnographer’s Journey in Translation Studies