Development field work: a practical guide

By:

Scheyvens, Regina, ed

Material type: Text

TextLanguage: English Publication details: Sage Publications, 2014. New Delhi:Edition: 2nd edDescription: xx, 288 pISBN:

9781446254776

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DDC classification:

300.72 DEV

Contents:

Introduction / Regina Scheyvens and Sharon McLennan -- Part I: Methodology -- Designing development research / Warwick E. Murray and John Overton -- Quantitative research / John Overton and Peter van Diermen -- Qualitative research / Rochelle Stewart-Withers, Glenn Banks, Andrew McGregor and Litea Meo-Sewabu -- Something old, something new : research using archives, texts and virtual data / Sharon McLennan and Gerard Prinsen -- Part II: Preparation for the field -- Practical issues / Maria Borovnik, Helen Leslie and Donovan Storey -- Personal issues / Henry Scheyvens, Regina Scheyvens and Barbara Nowak -- Part III: In the field -- Entering the field / Sharon McLennan, Donovan Storey and Helen Leslie -- Ethical issues / Glenn Banks and Regina Scheyvens -- Working with marginalised, vulnerable or privileged groups / Regina Scheyvens, Henry Scheyvens and Warwick E. Murray -- Part IV: Leaving the field -- Anything to declare? The politics and practicalities of leaving the field / Sara Kindon and Julie Cupples -- Returning to university and writing the field / Julie Cupples and Sara Kindon -- Ways forward / Regina Scheyvens.

Summary: Now updated to include research using archival, textual and virtual data this Second Edition continues to provide students with an invaluable, hands-on guide to doing fieldwork in both the developing and western world.

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Introduction / Regina Scheyvens and Sharon McLennan --
Part I: Methodology --
Designing development research / Warwick E. Murray and John Overton --
Quantitative research / John Overton and Peter van Diermen --
Qualitative research / Rochelle Stewart-Withers, Glenn Banks, Andrew McGregor and Litea Meo-Sewabu --
Something old, something new : research using archives, texts and virtual data / Sharon McLennan and Gerard Prinsen --
Part II: Preparation for the field --
Practical issues / Maria Borovnik, Helen Leslie and Donovan Storey --
Personal issues / Henry Scheyvens, Regina Scheyvens and Barbara Nowak --
Part III: In the field --
Entering the field / Sharon McLennan, Donovan Storey and Helen Leslie --
Ethical issues / Glenn Banks and Regina Scheyvens --
Working with marginalised, vulnerable or privileged groups / Regina Scheyvens, Henry Scheyvens and Warwick E. Murray --
Part IV: Leaving the field --
Anything to declare? The politics and practicalities of leaving the field / Sara Kindon and Julie Cupples --
Returning to university and writing the field / Julie Cupples and Sara Kindon --
Ways forward / Regina Scheyvens.

Now updated to include research using archival, textual and virtual data this Second Edition continues to provide students with an invaluable, hands-on guide to doing fieldwork in both the developing and western world.

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