000			03078nam a2200181Ia 4500
020			_a8178297191
082			_a001.42 _bDES
100			_aDesai, Vandana Ed. _941539
245			_aDoing development research. _hBook
260			_aNew Delhi _bSage Publications & Vistaar Publications _c2006
300			_axi,324p.
500			_aContents List of contributors vi i i Preface x PARTI INTRODUCTION 1 1 The Raison d'etre 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 B0as, Kathleen M. Jennings and Timothy M. Shaw 9 Working with Partners: Educational Institutions 79 Bill Gould 10 Working with Partners: Government Ministries 87 Mansoor AH and Andrew Cotton CONTENTS 11Working with Partners: NGOs and CBOs 94 Claire Mercer 12 Doing Development Research 'at Home' 104 Tim Unwin PART IIIINFORMATION 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 14Field Surveys and Inventories 130 David Barker 15Interviewing 144 Katie Willis 16Focus Groups 153 Sally Lloyd-Evans vi 17 Your Questions Answered? Conducting Questionnaire Surveys 163 David Simon 18Lost 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 En new 21Diaries 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 Mcllwaine CONTENTS 24 Using Images, Films and Photography 231 Cheryl McEwan 25 Using Archives 241 Michael Jennings 26 Remote Sensing, CIS 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 vjj 31 How is Research Communicated Professionally? 310 Sally Gainsbury and Cheryl Brown Index 320
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700			_aPotter, Robert B. Ed. _941541
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