Negotiating boundaries and borders qualitative methodology and development research

• Other Authors: Smith, Matt, Dr
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford ; Amsterdam ; San Diego, CA ; Elsevier, 2007.
• Series: Studies in qualitative methodology ; v. 8.
• Subjects: Qualitative research > Methodology.; Boundaries.; Economic development > Research.; Political development > Research.; Social planning > Research.; Developing countries > Research.; elektronické knihy; electronic books
• ISBN: 9781849503952; 1849503958; 9780762312832
• ISSN: 1042-3192 ;
• DOI: 10.1016/S1042-3192(2007)8
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (x, 238 p.) : ill.

As international development presents enormous moral, political and ethical challenges, so researching and understanding it requires negotiation of its contested contours. The chapters draw on research conducted around the world using a range of methodologies, perspectives and commitments, rooted in...

Table of Contents:

• What counts as development research? / Darryl Humble, Matt Smith
• Researching transnational advocacy networks: methods and challenges for development / Helen Yanacopulos
• Researching with, not on: using photography in researching street children in Accra, Ghana / Phil Mizen, Yaw Ofosu-Kusi
• Feminist methodologies: unsettling multiple boundaries in development / Katy Jenkins
• Development ethics and moral engagement: some political and ethical dilemmas in development research / John Donnelly
• When things are not as they seem: untangling the webs of a South-Indian NGO / James Staples
• Hearing voices? : negotiating multiple ethical commitments in development research / Kate Simpson
• Researching for change / Mary Mellor
• Acceptable stories or acceptable boundaries? : on managerial optimism, critical reflection, and one particularly intractable development organisation / Ingie Hovland
• Breaching the borders between research and practice: development NGOs and qualitative data / Oliver Bakewell.