Publication year: 2021
ISBN: 978-3-030-65067-4
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This book provides methodological devices and analytical frameworks for the study of societies in transformation. It explores a central paradox in the study of change: making sense of change requires long-term perspectives on societal transformations and on the different ways people experience social change, whereas the research carried out to study change is necessarily limited to a relatively short space of time. This volume offers a range of methodological responses to this challenge by paying attention to the complex entanglement of qualitative research and the metanarratives generally used to account for change.
Subject: Political Science and International Studies, Development Theory, Development and Social Change, Regional Development, Social Anthropology, Qualitative research, Global South, Transformation, Methodology, Social Change, Development studies, Development