Research Methods in Development Studies Books

New and Published Books

1. Participatory Action Research

   Theory and Methods for Engaged Inquiry

   By Jacques M. Chevalier, Daniel J. Buckles

   This book addresses a key issue in higher learning, university education and scientific research: the widespread difficulty researchers, experts and students from all disciplines face when trying to contribute to change in complex social settings characterized by uncertainty and the unknown. More...

   Published March 6th 2013 by Routledge
2. Urban and Regional Development Trajectories in Contemporary Capitalism

   By Flavia Martinelli, Frank Moulaert, Andreas Novy

   Series: Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy

   This book re-evaluates a rich scientific heritage of space- and history-sensitive development theories and produces an integrated methodology for the comparative analysis of urban and regional trajectories within a globalized world. The main argument put forward is that current mainstream analyses...

   Published December 17th 2012 by Routledge
3. Evaluating Communication for Development

   A Framework for Social Change

   By June Lennie, Jo Tacchi

   Evaluating Communication for Development presents a comprehensive framework for evaluating communication for development (C4D). This framework combines the latest thinking from a number of fields in new ways. It critiques dominant instrumental, accountability-based approaches to development and...

   Published December 5th 2012 by Routledge
4. Measuring Wellbeing: Towards Sustainability?

   By Karen Scott

   Improving wellbeing and sustainability are central goals of government, but are they in conflict? This engaging new book reviews that question and its implications for public policy through a focus on indicators. It highlights tensions on the one hand between various constructs of wellbeing and...

   Published May 17th 2012 by Routledge
5. Alternatives to Privatization

   Public Options for Essential Services in the Global South

   Edited by David A. McDonald, Greg Ruiters

   Series: Routledge Studies in Development and Society

   There is a vast literature for and against privatizing public services. Those who are against privatization are often confronted with the objection that they present no alternative. This book takes up that challenge by establishing theoretical models for what does (and does not) constitute an...

   Published February 26th 2012 by Routledge
6. Ethnographic Methods

   2nd Edition

   By Karen O'Reilly

   This new edition of Karen O’Reilly’s popular Ethnographic Methods provides a comprehensive and accessible introduction to the technical, practical and philosophical issues that arise when employing traditional and innovative research methods in relation to human agents. Using a wide range of...

   Published November 17th 2011 by Routledge
7. Towards Sustainable Rural Regions in Europe

   Exploring Inter-Relationships Between Rural Policies, Farming, Environment, Demographics, Regional Economies and Quality of Life Using System Dynamics

   Edited by John M. Bryden, Sophia Efstratoglou, Tibor Ferenczi, Karlheinz Knickel, Tom Johnson, Karen Refsgaard, Kenneth J. Thomson

   Series: Routledge Studies in Development and Society

   This book presents the methodology and results of a three-year, eleven-country science-to-policy research project – Toward a Policy Model of Multifunctional Agriculture and Rural Development – undertaken between 2005 and 2008 and financed under the European Union's Sixth Framework program...

   Published February 13th 2011 by Routledge
8. Participatory Research and Gender Analysis

   New Approaches

   Edited by Nina Lilja, John Dixon, Deborah Eade

   Series: Development in Practice Books

   Agricultural development research aims to generate new knowledge or to retrieve and apply existing forms of knowledge in ways that can be used to improve the welfare of people who are living in poverty or are otherwise excluded, for instance by gender-based discrimination. Its effective application...

   Published August 10th 2010 by Routledge
9. Anti-Poverty Land Reform Issues Never Die

   Collected essays on development economics in practice

   By M. Riad El-Ghonemy

   Series: Routledge Studies in Development Economics

   What can we do to unlock the unrealised potential of the hundreds of millions of rural poor and landless workers? The ever-topical central theme in this collection of essays is the mixed role of government and the institutionally regulated market in tackling rural poverty and land distribution...

   Published July 2nd 2009 by Routledge
10. Ethnographies Revisited

    Constructing Theory in the Field

    Edited by Antony J. Puddephatt, William Shaffir, Steven W. Kleinknecht

    Ethnographies Revisited provides first-hand accounts of how leading qualitative researchers crafted key theoretical concepts found in their major book-length ethnographies. Great ethnographic research lies not in the rigid execution of prescribed methodological procedures, but on the unrelenting...

    Published June 29th 2009 by Routledge