Syllabus/achievement requirements

Book:

Schevyens; Regina and Storey, Donovan (eds.): Development fieldwork. A practical guide., 2003. Sage Publications.

Compendium:

Barthes, Roland: “Myth Today” in Barthes, R.: Mythologies, London: Vintage, 1993, pp.93-149.

Castels, Manuel: "The Greening of the Self: The Environmental Movement," in David Pepper (ed.) Environmentalism: Critical Concepts, London: Routledge, 2003, vol. 3., p. 184 – 207.

Creswell, John W.: “Data Collection,” in Qualitative Inquiry and Research Design, Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 1998, p.109-137.

Geertz, Clifford 1995. “Culture War” in The New York Review of Books, 42 (19), 1995, p.1-6.

Geertz, Clifford: “Thick Description: Toward an Interpretive Theory of Culture”and “The Impact of the Concept of Culture on the Concept of Man” in The interpretation of Cultures, New York: Basic Books, 1973, p.3- 54

Gould, Steven Jay: “Utopia Limited,” in Urchin in the Storm, New York: Norton, 1987, pp.216-228.

Holy, Ladislav: Chapter 2; “Theory, methodology and the research process” in Ellen, R.F. (ed.) Ethnographic research: A guide to general conduct, London, Academic Press, 1984, pp. 13-34

Lincoln, Yvonna S. and Guba, Egon G., Ch. 6: “Paradigmatic Controversies, Contradictions and Emerging Confluences” in Norman K. Denzin and Yvonna S. Lincoln, The Landscapes of qualitative research: theories and issues (2nd edition) Sage, 2003, pp. 253 291.

Stake, Robert: “Case studies,” in N.K. Denzin and Y.S. Lincoln (eds.), Handbook of Qualitative Research, Thousand Oaks, CA; Sage, 1994, pp. 236-247.

Urry, James: Chapter 3: “A history of field methods” in Ellen, R.F. (ed.) Ethnographic research: A guide to general conduct, London: Academic Press. 1984, pp. 35-61.

Material available on the Internet:

Hardin, Garret 1968. The Tragedy of the Commons Science, 162 (1968), 1243-1248.

Burke, Tom and Lomborg, Bj?rn 1991. The Challenge to the Environmental Movement Prospect (Oct. 1991), 12-15.

Optional reading:

Stake, Robert E.: The Art of Case Study Research , 1995. Sage.

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