Development field work: a practical guide
- 2nd ed.
- New Delhi: Sage Publications, 2014.
- xx, 288 p.
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.
9781446254776
RES Social sciences -- Research -- Methodology. Social sciences -- Fieldwork.