Vom Regenwald in den Cyberspace: räumliche und zeitliche Transformationen in der Feldforschungspraxis

The central argument of this article is that transforming notions of can grasp the dynamic relationship between local realities and global themes such peoples' rights, the increasing importance of new media in both conflict and everyday peace research. It does so by drawing on three fieldwork projects: (1) on changing among hunters and gatherers in the Philippines; (2) in cyberspace, where local conflicts and globalized; and (3) on the peace process in Eastern Indonesia. The respective interests had major impact on the spatial and temporal set-up of the respective fieldwork, classic participant observation in one specific locality, to the conduct of fieldwork in is constituted and imagined through new media, to multi-sited and multi-temporal peace processes or peace scapes. The article elaborates on the interplay between action and serendipity, showing how methodology and the respective fields (and their were negotiated in each case in spatial as well as temporal terms. It opens with a brief Malinowski 's classic fieldwork paradigm and closes with some reflections on current to anthropology's central methods