Site Selection in Multi-Sited Research: The Practical and the Personal

In a multi-sited approach, researchers select sites by following the phenomenon, resulting in a site-to-site relation across space and time. While multi-sited works mention how following asks researchers to renegotiate their identity from one site to another (Marcus 1995), strategies for selecting multiple sites in the first place are less explored (Van Duijn 2020). Suggested criteria for site selection includes those proposed by Riofrancos (2021, 120–21) for “siting” based on a site’s observability, saliency, and the level of contention of a process within a broader global structure.