Methodological Challenges and New Approaches to Research in International Development [electronic resource] /
Camfield, L.editor.
Development researchers face many challenges in producing robust and persuasive analyses, often within a short time-frame. This edited volume tackles these challenges head-on, using examples from other fields to provide practical guidance to research producers and users.
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Cover; Contents; List of Tables, Figures, and Maps; Acknowledgements; Notes on Contributors; 1 Introduction; 1.1 Background; 1.2 Quality of research in international development; 1.3 Chapter outlines; Section I: Relationships; 2 Ethics, Intimacy, and Distance in Longitudinal, Qualitative Research: Experiences from Reality Check Bangladesh; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 Reality Check Bangladesh; 2.3 Intimacy in qualitative research and in RCA; 2.4 Intimacy and competing realms of ethics; 2.5 Intimacy, distance, and voice; 2.6 Concluding remarks
3 What''s in it for us? Consent, Access, and the Meaning of Research in a Qualitative Longitudinal Study3.1 Introduction; 3.2 Real Times: project methodology and ethical practice; 3.3 The literature: access, consent, gatekeepers, and politics; 3.4 Recruiting the cases; 3.5 Reflecting on recruitment and building relationships; 3.6 Discussion and conclusions; 4 Going Back to Re-study Communities: Challenges and Opportunities; 4.1 Introduction; 4.2 Problems in the field; 4.3 Conclusion
5 Taking a Well-being Approach to Fisheries Research: Insights from a Sri Lankan Fishing Village and Relevance for Sustainable Fisheries5.1 Introduction - taking a well-being approach to fisheries research; 5.2 A three-dimensional framework for researching well-being; 5.3 Assessment of basic human needs; 5.4 Exploring needs and establishing thresholds; 5.5 Governance Relationship Assessment; 5.6 Measuring subjective well-being - the ""Global Person Generated Index""; 5.7 Linking well-being to fisheries policy; Section II: Time and Changes over Time
6 Researching Social Change and Continuity: A Complexity-Informed Study of Twenty Rural Community Cases in Ethiopia in 1994-20156.1 Introduction; 6.2 The Foundations of Knowledge Framework; 6.3 The WIDE3 research domain and research questions; 6.4 Theory; 6.5 Research strategy; 6.6 Fieldwork process and the making of the database; 6.7 Interpretation and analysis process; 6.8 Research answers; 6.9 Rhetoric and praxis; 7 Patterns of Socio-economic Mobility in Rural Bangladesh: Lessons from Life History Interviews; 7.1 Introduction; 7.2 Methods; 7.3 Conceptualizing socio-economic mobility
7.4 Findings7.5 Concluding remarks: learning about poverty dynamics from life histories; 8 Household Surveys - Using Qualitative Data to Enhance Our Understanding of Household Dynamics over Time; 8.1 Introduction; 8.2 Background to the General Population Cohort; 8.3 Definitions of household and family; 8.4 ""The household"" in the GPC; 8.5 Household creation in the Ganda society; 8.6 Tracing households; 8.7 Tracing GPC households; 8.8 Comparison of our findings with those of other studies
9 Using Qualitative and Panel Data to Create Durable Measures of Child Poverty and Well-being across Childhood
Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
Development researchers face many challenges in producing robust and persuasive analyses, often within a short time-frame. This edited volume tackles these challenges head-on, using examples from other fields to provide practical guidance to research producers and users.
Political economy.
International relations.
Economic development.
Political theory.
Political science.
Public administration.
International Political Economy.
International Relations.
Development Theory.
Political Theory.
Political Science.
Public Administration.