16 Researching security decisions at the border (or serendipity and secret places)
Alexandra Hall
Introduction
This chapter is about serendipity and research. It offers a personal reflection on designing and conducting research that gives serendipity a place – not because I want to suggest that doing research is “mere luck”, but because attributing elements of research to chance or fortune is contrary to the way we are accustomed to narrating the research process and presenting ourselves as researchers. When I reflect on my experiences of research, there are always two stories to tell. The first is a conventional one: it traces a steady line between identifying an area of interest, refining research questions, ...
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