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082			_ae-book (MDP)
245			_aDoing development research / _cedited by Vandana Desai and Robert B. Potter
260			_aLondon : _bSage Publications, _c2006.
300			_a x, 324 p. : _bill., tables and graphs ;
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520			_aContents List of contributors viii Preface x PART I INTRODUCTION 1 1 The Raison d’être of Doing Development Research 3 PART II STRATEGIC ISSUES IN PLANNING SOUND RESEARCH 11 2 Doing Fieldwork in Developing Countries: Planning and Logistics 13 Tony Binns 3 Ethical Practices in Doing Development Research 25 Lynne Brydon 4 Working in Different Cultures: Issues of Race, Ethnicity and Identity 34 Caesar R.A. Apentiik and Jane L. Parpart 5 Women, Men and Fieldwork: Gender Relations and Power Structures 44 Janet Henshall Momsen 6 Working with Children in Development 52 Lorraine van Blerk 7 Collecting Sensitive and Contentious Information 62 Margaret E. Harrison 8 Dealing with Conflicts and Emergency Situations 70 Morten Bøås, Kathleen M. Jennings and Timothy M. Shaw 9 Working with Partners: Educational Institutions 79 Bill Gould 10 Working with Partners: Government Ministries 87 Mansoor Ali and Andrew Cotton vi CONTENTS 11 Working with Partners: NGOs and CBOs 94 Claire Mercer 12 Doing Development Research ‘at Home’ 104 Tim Unwin PART III INFORMATION AND DATA COLLECTION METHODS 113 (i) METHODS OF SOCIAL RESEARCH AND ASSOCIATED FORMS OF ANALYSIS 13 Quantitative, Qualitative or Participatory? Which Method, for What and When? 115 Linda Mayoux 14 Field Surveys and Inventories 130 David Barker 15 Interviewing 144 Katie Willis 16 Focus Groups 153 Sally Lloyd-Evans 17 Your Questions Answered? Conducting Questionnaire Surveys 163 David Simon 18 Lost in Translation? The Use of Interpreters in Fieldwork 172 Janet Bujra 19 Ethnography and Participant Observation 180 Jan Kees van Donge 20 Participatory Methods and Approaches: Tackling the Two Tyrannies 189 Harriot Beazley and Judith Ennew 21 Diaries and Case Studies 200 JoAnn McGregor (ii) USING EXISTING KNOWLEDGE AND RECORDS 207 22 Literature Reviews and Bibliographic Searches 209 Paula Meth and Glyn Williams 23 Using Indigenous Local Knowledge and Literature 222 Cathy McIIwaine vii CONTENTS 24 Using Images, Films and Photography 231 Cheryl McEwan 25 Using Archives 241 Michael Jennings 26 Remote Sensing, GIS and Ground Truthing 251 Dennis Conway and Shanon Donnelly 27 The Importance of Census and Other Secondary Data in Development Studies 262 Allan M. Findlay 28 Using the World Wide Web for Development Research 273 Emma Mawdsley 29 Data from International Agencies 282 Jonathan Rigg (iii) DISSEMINATING FINDINGS/RESEARCH 295 30 Writing an Effective Research Report or Dissertation 297 Stephen Morse 31 How is Research Communicated Professionally? 310 Sally Gainsbury and Cheryl Brown Index 320
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700			_aDesai, V.
700			_aPotter, R.
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