Social research and statistics Books

Book SynopsisDrawing on evidence from across Europe, Asia and the USA, this accessible book covers how social workers can engage with research and draw on it in practice.Trade Review“A rich and highly practical resource which opens the door to research for social work practitioners, and both intending and experienced researchers.” Roger Smith, Durham University“Each gem of a chapter brings together deep wisdom that recognizes the particularities of time, space, and place in the shaping of multiple social work practices.” Professor Barbara Levy Simon, Columbia UniversityTable of ContentsWhat is social work research? Why do research in social work? Doing research application Mapping social work research Social work research over time Place and space Sociological social work: a case example Doing good social work research

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Book SynopsisExamining what makes something evidence-based and not merely evidence-informed, this book unifies the voices of police practitioners, academics, and pracademics. It provides real world examples of evidence-based police practices and how police research can be created and applied in the field.Trade Review"As evidence-based policing becomes more prominent in law enforcement policy and practice, this edited volume provides important examples and debates to the field." Cynthia Lum, George Mason University.Table of ContentsIntroduction; Section 1: Key Ideas; A Light Introduction to Evidence Based Policing~Renee J. Mitchell; Targeting, Testing and Tracking: The CAM System of Evidence Based Police Assignment~Lawrence W. Sherman; Problem Analysis to Support Decision Making in Evidence Based Policing~Anthony A. Braga and Riley Tucker; The Legal Framework for Evidence based Policing in the US~Seth Stoughton; Identifying Some Misconceptions about Evidence Based Policing: A Research Note~Laura Huey, Brittant Blaskovits, Craig Bennell, Hina Kalyal and Tom Walker; Section 2: Methodological Discussions in Evidence Based Policing; “Not All Evidence Is Created Equal”: On the Importance of Matching Research Questions with Research Methods in Evidence-Based Policing~Barak Ariel; Twitter a New Tardis for Policing?~Emma Williams and Ian Hesketh; Systematic Reviews: “Better Evidence for a Better World”~Peter Neyroud; The Case for Open Police Research~Craig Bennell and Brittany Blaskovits; Knowledge Wars: Professionalisation, Organisational Justice and Competing Knowledge Paradigms in British Policing~Emma Williams & Tom Cockroft; Section 3: Current and Emerging Research Areas; The Trials and Tribulations of Evidence based Procedural Justice~Sarah Bennett, Lorraine Mazerrolle, Emma Antrobus, Peter Martin and Lorelei Hine; Hot Spots Made Easy~Renee J. Mitchell; The Cost of Mental Health Related Calls on Police Service: Evidence from British Columbia~Adam Vaughan & Martin Andresen; Using Body-Worn Cameras to Create an Evidence-Based De-Escalation Training Program~Natalie Todak; Section 4: Experiences in EBP; Moving to the inevitability of Evidence Based Policing~Peter Martin; Why is evidence based policing growing and what challenges lie ahead?~ Alex Murray; A Practical Approach to Evidence based Policing~Gary Cordner.

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Book SynopsisExamining what makes something evidence-based and not merely evidence-informed, this book unifies the voices of police practitioners, academics, and pracademics. It provides real world examples of evidence-based police practices and how police research can be created and applied in the field.Trade Review"As evidence-based policing becomes more prominent in law enforcement policy and practice, this edited volume provides important examples and debates to the field." Cynthia Lum, George Mason University.Table of ContentsIntroduction; Section 1: Key Ideas; A Light Introduction to Evidence Based Policing~Renee J. Mitchell; Targeting, Testing and Tracking: The CAM System of Evidence Based Police Assignment~Lawrence W. Sherman; Problem Analysis to Support Decision Making in Evidence Based Policing~Anthony A. Braga and Riley Tucker; The Legal Framework for Evidence based Policing in the US~Seth Stoughton; Identifying Some Misconceptions about Evidence Based Policing: A Research Note~Laura Huey, Brittant Blaskovits, Craig Bennell, Hina Kalyal and Tom Walker; Section 2: Methodological Discussions in Evidence Based Policing; “Not All Evidence Is Created Equal”: On the Importance of Matching Research Questions with Research Methods in Evidence-Based Policing~Barak Ariel; Twitter a New Tardis for Policing?~Emma Williams and Ian Hesketh; Systematic Reviews: “Better Evidence for a Better World”~Peter Neyroud; The Case for Open Police Research~Craig Bennell and Brittany Blaskovits; Knowledge Wars: Professionalisation, Organisational Justice and Competing Knowledge Paradigms in British Policing~Emma Williams & Tom Cockroft; Section 3: Current and Emerging Research Areas; The Trials and Tribulations of Evidence based Procedural Justice~Sarah Bennett, Lorraine Mazerrolle, Emma Antrobus, Peter Martin and Lorelei Hine; Hot Spots Made Easy~Renee J. Mitchell; The Cost of Mental Health Related Calls on Police Service: Evidence from British Columbia~Adam Vaughan & Martin Andresen; Using Body-Worn Cameras to Create an Evidence-Based De-Escalation Training Program~Natalie Todak; Section 4: Experiences in EBP; Moving to the inevitability of Evidence Based Policing~Peter Martin; Why is evidence based policing growing and what challenges lie ahead?~ Alex Murray; A Practical Approach to Evidence based Policing~Gary Cordner.

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Book SynopsisThis book analyses societal trends and controversies related to developments in data ownership, access, construction, dissemination and interpretation, looking at the ways that society interacts with and uses statistical data.Table of ContentsBook Introduction ~ Humphrey Southall, Jeff Evans and Sally Ruane; 1: How Data are Changing; Introduction ~ Humphrey Southall and Jeff Evans; Statistical work: the changing occupational landscape ~ Kevin McConway; The creation and use of big administrative data ~ Harvey Goldstein and Ruth Gilbert Data Analytics ~ Ifan Shepherd and Gary Hearne; Social Media Data ~ Adrian Tear and Humphrey Southall; 2: Counting in a Globalised world; Introduction ~ Sally Ruane and Jeff Evans; Adult Skills Surveys and Transnational Organisations: Globalising Educational Policy ~ Jeff Evans; Poverty and health care surveys in the Global South: Towards making valid estimates ~ Roy Carr-Hill; Counting the Population in Need of International Protection Globally ~ Brad Blitz, Alessio D’Angelo and Eleonore Kofman; Tax justice and the challenges of measuring illicit financial flows ~ Richard Murphy; 3: The Changing Role of the State; Introduction ~ Sally Ruane and Humphrey Southall; The control and ‘fitness for purpose’ of UK official statistics ~ David Rhind; The Statistics of Devolution ~ David Byrne; Welfare reform: national policies with local impacts ~ Christina Beatty and Steve Fothergill; Social insecurity and the changing role of the (welfare) state: Public perceptions, social attitudes and political action ~ Christopher Deeming and Ron Johnston; Access to data and NHS privatisation: reducing public accountability ~ Sally Ruane; 4: Economic Life; Introduction ~ Humphrey Southall, Sally Ruane and Jeff Evans; The ‘distribution question’: the role of statistical analysis in measuring and evaluating trends in inequality ~ Stewart Lansley; Labour market statistics ~ Paul Bivand; The financial system ~ Rebecca Boden; The difficulty of building comprehensive tax avoidance data ~ Prem Sikka; Tax and spend decisions: did austerity improve financial numeracy and literacy? ~ David Walker; 5: Inequalities in Health and Well-being; Introduction ~ Sally Ruane and Humphrey Southall; Health Divides ~ Anonymous; Measuring Social Wellbeing ~ Roy Carr-Hill; Re-engineering health policy research to measure equity impacts ~ Tim Doran and Richard Cookson; The Generation Game: Ending the phony information war between young and old ~ Jay Ginn and Neil Duncan-Jordan; 6: Advancing social progress through critical statistical literacy; Introduction ~ Jeff Evans, Humphrey Southall and Sally Ruane; The Radical Statistics Group: Using Statistics for Progressive Social Change ~ Jeff Evans and Ludi Simpson; Lyme disease politics and evidence-based policy-making in the UK ~ Kate Bloor; Counting the uncounted: contestations over casualisation data in Australian universities ~ Nour Dados, James Goodman and Keiko Yasukawa; The quantitative crisis in UK Sociology ~ Malcolm Williams, Luke Sloan and Charlotte Brookfield; Critical Statistical Literacy and Interactive Data Visualisations ~ Jim Ridgway, James Nicholson, Sinclair Sutherland and Spencer Hedger; Full Fact ~ Amy Sippitt; What a difference a dataset makes? Data journalism and/as data activism ~ Jonathan Gray and Liliana Bounegru; Book Epilogue .

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Book SynopsisThis book assesses the challenges young people face in the contemporary labour markets of England and Germany in the context of mass migration, rising nationalism and accelerating technological change, and considers the resources and skills young people in Europe will need in the future.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Pathways to adulthood Social structure and inequality Identity and social media Youth and Europe Navigating the transition to adulthood Education, capability and skills Smart families and community Political participation, mobilisation and the internet Impact of COVID-19 on youth Conclusions: Youth policy challenges

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Book SynopsisThis book assesses the challenges young people face in the contemporary labour markets of England and Germany in the context of mass migration, rising nationalism and accelerating technological change, and considers the resources and skills young people in Europe will need in the future.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Pathways to adulthood Social structure and inequality Identity and social media Youth and Europe Navigating the transition to adulthood Education, capability and skills Smart families and community Political participation, mobilisation and the internet Impact of COVID-19 on youth Conclusions: Youth policy challenges

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Book SynopsisThis engaging book explores the porous borders of research with art, therapy and education, helping researchers reflect on their practice and consider more carefully the potential consequences and impacts of their work.Table of ContentsPart 1: Introduction to qualitative, creative, and embodied research Introduction to Part 1 Lesson 1: Reflection Lesson 2: Awareness Lesson 3: Relationship Part 2: Disciplinary borders Introduction to Part 2 Lessons from art Lessons from science Lessons from ethics Part 3: Case studies Introduction to Part 3 Case study 1: Working with children Case study 2: Working with artists and researchers Case study 3: Working with embodied academics Case study 4: Working with scientists Weaving in

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Book SynopsisThis book shows researchers how ethnography can be carried out within human service settings, providing an invaluable guide on how to apply ethnographic creativeness and offering a more humanistic and context-sensitive approach to generating valid knowledge about today's service work.Table of ContentsPart One: Capturing Professional Relevance Shadowing Care Workers When They’re “Doing Nothing” ~ Doris Lydahl Two Worlds of Professional Relevance in a Small Village ~ Christal Avendal Capturing the Organization of Emotions in Child Welfare Decision-Making ~ Tea Torbenfeldt Bengtsson Part Two: Grasping Empirical Complexity Sensitizing Concepts in Studies of Homelessness and Disability ~ Nanna Mik-Meyer Grasping the Social Life of Documents in Human Service Practice ~ Emilie Morwenna Whitaker Debating Dementia Care Logics ~ Cintia Engel, Janaina Aredes & Annette Leibing Part Three: Challenges Of Multi-Sitedness Social Worlds of Person-Centered, Multi-Sited Ethnography ~ Aleksandra Bartoszko “Facting” in a Case of Concealed Pregnancy ~ Lucy Sheehan Ethnographic Challenges of Fragmented Human Services ~ Tarja Pösö PART Four: Noticings From Ethnographic Distance Ethnographic Discovery after Fieldwork on Troubled Youth ~ Malin Ǻkerström & David Wästerfors Looking Beyond the Police-as-Control Narrative ~ David Sausdal Embracing Lessons from Ethnography in Non-Western Prison ~ Andrew M. Jefferson

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Book SynopsisInviting beginners and more experienced researchers to explore new ways of writing, this book introduces readers to creatively written research in a variety of formats including plays and poems, videos and comics. It not only gives social researchers permission, but also shows them how, to write creatively.Table of ContentsChapter One: Introduction Definitions Synergies: Between Creative Writing and Social Research What Follows Chapter Two: Doing Creative Writing Introduction Doing It Yourself: Getting Started Putting Yourself in the Picture Observation and Description Stories and Storying Writing about Ideas: Essays and Lists Doing It Yourself: Following Through Chapter Three: Doing Research, Generating Data, Working with Participants Introduction Getting Started: Participatory Creative Writing for Social Research Workshops and Groups Working with Individuals Data and findings: Process and Product Chapter Four: Exploring and Articulating Findings Introduction Data Analysis Dissemination Finding and Telling Stories: Storying Chapter 5: Searching and Queer(ing) Writing Searching Queer(ing) Writing

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Book SynopsisInviting beginners and more experienced researchers to explore new ways of writing, this book introduces readers to creatively written research in a variety of formats including plays and poems, videos and comics. It not only gives social researchers permission, but also shows them how, to write creatively.Table of ContentsChapter One: Introduction Definitions Synergies: Between Creative Writing and Social Research What Follows Chapter Two: Doing Creative Writing Introduction Doing It Yourself: Getting Started Putting Yourself in the Picture Observation and Description Stories and Storying Writing about Ideas: Essays and Lists Doing It Yourself: Following Through Chapter Three: Doing Research, Generating Data, Working with Participants Introduction Getting Started: Participatory Creative Writing for Social Research Workshops and Groups Working with Individuals Data and findings: Process and Product Chapter Four: Exploring and Articulating Findings Introduction Data Analysis Dissemination Finding and Telling Stories: Storying Chapter 5: Searching and Queer(ing) Writing Searching Queer(ing) Writing

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Book SynopsisWith case studies from around the world, this accessible book explores the methodological complexities of research into voluntary action, charitable behaviour and participation in voluntary organisations.Table of Contents1. Introduction - Eddy Hogg and Jon Dean 2. (Un)suitable methods and reflexive considerations: an interview and focus group study of youth volunteering - James Davies 3. Interpretive ethnography: a UK charity shop case study - Triona Fitton 4. Collaborative philanthropy and doing practically relevant, critical research - Angela Eikenberry and Xiaowei Song 5. Peer research: co- producing research within the context of voluntary and community action – Ellen Bennett 6. Charity advertising: visual methods, images and elicitation - Abhishek Bhati and Jon Dean 7. Using archives and objects in voluntary action research - Georgina Brewis 8. Using Mass Observation as a source of qualitative secondary data for interdisciplinary longitudinal research on voluntary action - Rose Lindsey 9. Investigating meanings and messages on volunteering through television media – Kimberly Wiley 10. Annual reporting in voluntary organisations: opportunities for content analysis research - Carolyn Cordery and Danielle McConville 11. Researching risk in the voluntary sector: the challenges and opportunities of regulatory data - Diarmuid McDonnell and Alasdair C. Rutherford 12. Exploring the benefi ts of volunteering: combining survey and administrative data in the Nordic ‘laboratory’ – Hans-Peter Y. Qvist 13. Spatial approaches to the voluntary sector – James Bowles 14. Restudies, surveys and what counts as volunteering - Jon Dean and Diarmuid Verrier 15. Conclusion - Jon Dean and Eddy Hogg

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Book SynopsisThis cross-Europe analysis explores crucial aspects of long term recovery from substance use. Leading experts set out the evolving needs of people who have sought to change their use of substances and the factors in their progress. The book concludes with clear recommendations for improving future research, policy and practice.Table of ContentsPart 1: Critical explorations of long-term recovery 1. Recovery as long term: an introduction ~ Alastair Roy, Sarah Galvani and Amanda Clayson 2. Is measuring long-term recovery desirable, necessary or even possible? ~ Wulf Livingston 3. Telling recovery stories: an exploration of the relationship between policy, practice and lived experience ~ Alastair Roy and Jennifer Christensen 4. Change processes in long-term recovery for individuals with present and former substance-use dependence ~ Thomas Solgaard Svendsen 5. Provider and user perspectives on long-term recovery in England: how do we know when we are done? ~ Maike Klein and John Hill Part 2: Intimate relationships, trauma and long-term recovery 6. Women’s and men’s stories about sex and intimate relationships in long-term recovery from problematic drug use ~ Anette Skårner and Bengt Svensson 7. Multiple recoveries: substance use and trauma ~ Sarah Fox and Karin Berg 8. Being a partner in long-term recovery: stories from female partners in Norway ~ Sari Lindeman and Lillian Bruland Selseng 9. Long-term recovery for the ‘adult children’ of parents who use alcohol in Iceland ~ Jóna Ólafsdóttir and Amanda Clayson Part 3: Diversity across the lifespan in long-term recovery 10. Social and structural issues in recovery among migrants and ethnic minorities: an exploration of cultural competence and individual recovery perspectives ~ Charlotte De Kock and Aline Pouille 11. Transitions in long-term recovery: mapping adolescent development theory to better understand identity change in recovery ~ Lucy Webb, Amanda Clayson and Nigel Cox 12. Care, continuity and change in long-term recovery: the experiences of older opioid users in long-term recovery in three German regions ~ Ines Arendt 13. When long-term recovery isn’t an option: people at the end of life ~ Sam Wright and Gemma Yarwood 14. Conclusion: Critical reflections, theories and key messages ~ Sarah Galvani, Alastair Roy and Amanda Clayson

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Book SynopsisBased on the results of a European Social Fund project, this book critically appraises the benefits and challenges of involving service users in social work research, practice and education.Trade Review“This is a rich and celebratory collection about the participation of service users in the training of social workers and in research about social work. It conveys confidence in the value of involving ‘experts by experience’ and is an excellent encouragement to those who are embarking on the early stages.” European Journal of Social Work“An impressive and inspiring multiannual research project forms the basis of this book, and one of its strengths is the enhanced comparison of the different experiences with the involvement of service users. It provides an interesting and inspiring insight in the state of the art in higher social work education in Europe.” Journal of Social Intervention: Theory and PracticeTable of Contents1. Introduction - Kristel Driessens and Vicky Lyssens-Danneboom Part 1: Collaborative models in social work education 2. The gap-mending concept: theory and practice - Cecilia Heule, Marcus Knutagård and Arne Kristiansen 3. Mending gaps in social work education in the UK - Helen Casey and Peter Beresford 4. Service users as tandem partners in social work education - Kristel Driessens, Vicky Lyssens- Danneboom, Wendy Peeters, Cindy Van Geldorp, Piet Vandenhende, Hilde Bloemen, Caro Bridts, Sascha Van Gijzel and Henrike Kowalk 5. Service users as supervisors in social work education: mending the gap of power relations - Mette Fløystad Kvammen and Tabitha Wright Nielsen 6. Involving students with mental health experience in social work education - Hubert Kaszyński and Olga Maciejewska 7. The living library in social work education - Robin Sen, Marianne Nylund, Ali Hayward, Rahul Pardasani, William Rivera and Michelle Kaila 8. Creating a platform together for the voice of the service user: inspiration for organising an event together with service users - Ruth Strudwick, Suzanna Pickering and Joep Holten 9. Reflections on inspiring conversations in social work education: the voices of Scottish experts by experience and Italian students - Susan Levy and Elena Cabiati with John Dow, Elinor Dowson, Keith Swankie and Gil Martin 10. Joint workshops with students and service users in social work education: experiences from Esslingen, Germany - Thomas Heidenreich and Marion Laging 11. Service users, students and staff: co-producing creative educational activities on a social work programme in the UK - Kieron Hatton, Kevin Holmes and Pete Shepherd Part 2: Collaborative models in research and policy 12. The co-researcher role in the tension between recognition, co-option and tokenism - Ole Petter Askheim 13. Community of development: a model for inclusive learning, research and innovation - Jean Pierre Wilken, Ellen Witteveen, Carla van Slagmaat, Sascha van Gijzel, Jeroen Knevel, Toinette Loeffen and Els Overkamp 14. Dialogue, skills and trust: some lessons learned from co-writing with service users - Sidsel Natland 15. Participatory pathways in social policymaking: between rhetoric and reality - Peter Beresford and Heidi Degerickx 16. Experiential knowledge as a driver of change - Har Tortike and Vicky Lyssens-Danneboom Part 3: Reflective chapters 17. Experiences matter equally - Henrike Kowalk and Jenny Wetterling 18. Ethical issues in the meaningful involvement of service users as co-researchers - Hugh McLaughlin 19. Involving service users in social work education and research: is this structural social work? Kristel Driessens and Vicky Lyssens- Danneboom

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Book SynopsisBased on the results of a European Social Fund project, this book critically appraises the benefits and challenges of involving service users in social work research, practice and education.Trade Review“This is a rich and celebratory collection about the participation of service users in the training of social workers and in research about social work. It conveys confidence in the value of involving ‘experts by experience’ and is an excellent encouragement to those who are embarking on the early stages.” European Journal of Social Work“An impressive and inspiring multiannual research project forms the basis of this book, and one of its strengths is the enhanced comparison of the different experiences with the involvement of service users. It provides an interesting and inspiring insight in the state of the art in higher social work education in Europe.” Journal of Social Intervention: Theory and PracticeTable of Contents1. Introduction - Kristel Driessens and Vicky Lyssens-Danneboom Part 1: Collaborative models in social work education 2. The gap-mending concept: theory and practice - Cecilia Heule, Marcus Knutagård and Arne Kristiansen 3. Mending gaps in social work education in the UK - Helen Casey and Peter Beresford 4. Service users as tandem partners in social work education - Kristel Driessens, Vicky Lyssens- Danneboom, Wendy Peeters, Cindy Van Geldorp, Piet Vandenhende, Hilde Bloemen, Caro Bridts, Sascha Van Gijzel and Henrike Kowalk 5. Service users as supervisors in social work education: mending the gap of power relations - Mette Fløystad Kvammen and Tabitha Wright Nielsen 6. Involving students with mental health experience in social work education - Hubert Kaszyński and Olga Maciejewska 7. The living library in social work education - Robin Sen, Marianne Nylund, Ali Hayward, Rahul Pardasani, William Rivera and Michelle Kaila 8. Creating a platform together for the voice of the service user: inspiration for organising an event together with service users - Ruth Strudwick, Suzanna Pickering and Joep Holten 9. Reflections on inspiring conversations in social work education: the voices of Scottish experts by experience and Italian students - Susan Levy and Elena Cabiati with John Dow, Elinor Dowson, Keith Swankie and Gil Martin 10. Joint workshops with students and service users in social work education: experiences from Esslingen, Germany - Thomas Heidenreich and Marion Laging 11. Service users, students and staff: co-producing creative educational activities on a social work programme in the UK - Kieron Hatton, Kevin Holmes and Pete Shepherd Part 2: Collaborative models in research and policy 12. The co-researcher role in the tension between recognition, co-option and tokenism - Ole Petter Askheim 13. Community of development: a model for inclusive learning, research and innovation - Jean Pierre Wilken, Ellen Witteveen, Carla van Slagmaat, Sascha van Gijzel, Jeroen Knevel, Toinette Loeffen and Els Overkamp 14. Dialogue, skills and trust: some lessons learned from co-writing with service users - Sidsel Natland 15. Participatory pathways in social policymaking: between rhetoric and reality - Peter Beresford and Heidi Degerickx 16. Experiential knowledge as a driver of change - Har Tortike and Vicky Lyssens-Danneboom Part 3: Reflective chapters 17. Experiences matter equally - Henrike Kowalk and Jenny Wetterling 18. Ethical issues in the meaningful involvement of service users as co-researchers - Hugh McLaughlin 19. Involving service users in social work education and research: is this structural social work? Kristel Driessens and Vicky Lyssens- Danneboom

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Book SynopsisThis book demonstrates how an ethics of care can help researchers work through challenges and solve complex issues. Keeping social justice at the heart of research, the book shows how an ethics of care can provide a systematic approach supporting good judgements about research practices from inception to impact.Table of ContentsForeword by Joan C Tronto PART I Chapter 1. Research and Ethics of Care Chapter 2. Caring, Knowing and Making a Difference Chapter 3. Relational Research Chapter 4. Stages of Research, Phases of Care PART II Chapter 5. Research as Praxis, Interweaving a Complex Web Chapter 6. Doing Research Together: Interdependencies to Maintain, Sustain and Renew Our Worlds Chapter 7. Analysis, Legacy and Care Chapter 8. Reflections on Researching with Care References

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Book SynopsisWith cross-cultural perspectives from eight European countries, this book provides much-needed research on migration and social work. Focusing on the experiences and integration of refugees and asylum seekers, the text considers the impact of EU policies on borders and integration, and the rise of racism across European societies.Trade Review"This work represents an original overview of the holistic, transnational and cross-cultural perspectives of migration and asylum in Europe. An excellent book showing the reality of social work.” Alberto Ares Mateos, Instituto Universitario de Estudios sobre Migraciones“A must for every library” The British Journal of Social WorkTable of ContentsIntroduction - Emilio José Gómez Ciriano, Elena Cabiati and Sofia Dedotsi 1. The Contribution of Social Work Research to Promote Migration and Asylum Policies in Europe - Emilio José Gómez Ciriano 2. Participatory Art in Social Work: From Humanitarianism to Humanization of People on the Move - Darja Zaviršek 3. Grasping at Straws: Social Work in Reception and Identification Centres (RIC) in Greece - Marina Rota, Océane Uzureau, Malte Behrendt, Sarah Adeyinka, Ine Lietaert and Ilse Derluyn 4. Migrant Girls' Experiences of Integration and Social Care in Sweden - Elin Ekstron 5. “Come to my House!” – Homing Practices of Children in Swiss Asylum Camps - Clara Bombach 6. Transnational Dynamics of Family Reunification: Reassembling Social Work with Refugees in Belgium - Pascal Debruyne, Kaat Van Acker, Dirk Geldof and Mieke Schrooten 7. Open or Closed Doors? Accessibility of Italian Social Work Organisations Towards Ethnic Minorities People - Elena Cabiati 8. Refugee Children and Families in the Republic of Ireland: The Response of Social Work - Muireann Ní Raghallaigh 9. Sense of Place, Migrant Integration and Social Work - Susan Levy and Maura Daly 10. ‘If Not Now, When?’ – Reclaiming Activism into Social Work Education: The Case of an Intercultural Student-Academic Project with Refugees in UK and Greece - Sofia Dedotsi and Ruth Hamilton 11. EU Border Migration Policy and Unaccompanied Refugee Minors in Greece: The Example of Lesvos and Samos Hotspots - Marina Rota, Ine Lietaert and Ilse Derluyn Epilogue: Time to Listen. Time to Learn, Time to Challenge…Because There is Hope - Emilio José Gómez Ciriano, Elena Cabiati and Sofia Dedotsi

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Book SynopsisIncluding contributions on qualitative and digital research from Europe, Asia, Africa, Australasia and the Americas, this volume explores the creative and thoughtful ways in which researchers have adapted methods and rethought relationships in response to challenges arising from crises such as the COVID-19 pandemic, disasters or violent conflict.Table of ContentsIntroduction - Su-ming Khoo and Helen Kara Part 1: Reflexivity and ethics 1. Just because you can, doesn’t mean you should - Ali FitzGibbon 2. Ethnography in crisis: methodology in the cracks - Zania Koppe 3. Phenomenology of lived experience: multilayered approach and positionality - Bibek Dahal Part 2: Arts-based approaches 4. The arts of making-sense in uncertain times: arts-based research and autoethnography - Deborah Green, Amanda Levey, Bettina Evans, Wendy Lawson, and Kathrin Marks 5. Practice-based research in times of crisis: weaving community together during lockdown - Gretchen Stolte and Lisa Oliver 6. Communicating crisis research with comics: representation, process, and pedagogy - Gemma Sou and Sarah Marie Hall Part 3: Digital methods 7. Developing a Collaborative AutoNetnographic approach to researching doctoral students’ online experiences - Richard McGrath, Holly Bowen-Salter, Emma Milanese, and Phoebe Pearce 8. The ethical implications of using digital traces: studying explainability and trust during a pandemic - Natasha Dwyer, Hector Miller-Bakewell, Tessa Darbyshire, Anirban Basu, and Steve Marsh 9. The use of objects to enhance online social research interviews - Maged Zakher and Hoda Wassif 10. Qualitative data re-use and secondary analysis: researching in and about a crisis - Anna Tarrant and Kahryn Hughes 11. Researching older Vietnam- born migrants at a distance: the role of digital kinning - Hien Thi Nguyen, Loretta Baldassar, Raelene Wilding, and Lukasz Krzyzowski Part 4: Recurring and longer-term crises 12. A timed crisis: Australian education, migrant Asian teachers, and critical autoethnography - Aaron Teo 13. Building relationships and praxis despite persistent obstacles - Maria Grazia Imperiale 14. Managing ethical tensions when conducting research in fragile and conflict-affected contexts - Gbenga Akinlolu Shadare 15. Beyond extraction: co-creating a decolonial and feminist research practice in post-conflict Guatemala - Aisling Walsh Conclusion - Helen Kara and Su-ming Khoo

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Book SynopsisIncluding contributions on qualitative and digital research from Europe, Asia, Africa, Australasia and the Americas, this volume explores the creative and thoughtful ways in which researchers have adapted methods and rethought relationships in response to challenges arising from crises such as the COVID-19 pandemic, disasters or violent conflict.Table of ContentsIntroduction - Su-ming Khoo and Helen Kara Part 1: Reflexivity and ethics 1. Just because you can, doesn’t mean you should - Ali FitzGibbon 2. Ethnography in crisis: methodology in the cracks - Zania Koppe 3. Phenomenology of lived experience: multilayered approach and positionality - Bibek Dahal Part 2: Arts-based approaches 4. The arts of making-sense in uncertain times: arts-based research and autoethnography - Deborah Green, Amanda Levey, Bettina Evans, Wendy Lawson, and Kathrin Marks 5. Practice-based research in times of crisis: weaving community together during lockdown - Gretchen Stolte and Lisa Oliver 6. Communicating crisis research with comics: representation, process, and pedagogy - Gemma Sou and Sarah Marie Hall Part 3: Digital methods 7. Developing a Collaborative AutoNetnographic approach to researching doctoral students’ online experiences - Richard McGrath, Holly Bowen-Salter, Emma Milanese, and Phoebe Pearce 8. The ethical implications of using digital traces: studying explainability and trust during a pandemic - Natasha Dwyer, Hector Miller-Bakewell, Tessa Darbyshire, Anirban Basu, and Steve Marsh 9. The use of objects to enhance online social research interviews - Maged Zakher and Hoda Wassif 10. Qualitative data re-use and secondary analysis: researching in and about a crisis - Anna Tarrant and Kahryn Hughes 11. Researching older Vietnam- born migrants at a distance: the role of digital kinning - Hien Thi Nguyen, Loretta Baldassar, Raelene Wilding, and Lukasz Krzyzowski Part 4: Recurring and longer-term crises 12. A timed crisis: Australian education, migrant Asian teachers, and critical autoethnography - Aaron Teo 13. Building relationships and praxis despite persistent obstacles - Maria Grazia Imperiale 14. Managing ethical tensions when conducting research in fragile and conflict-affected contexts - Gbenga Akinlolu Shadare 15. Beyond extraction: co-creating a decolonial and feminist research practice in post-conflict Guatemala - Aisling Walsh Conclusion - Helen Kara and Su-ming Khoo

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Book SynopsisWhat does mothering mean in different cultures and societies? This book extensively applies biographical and narrative research methods to mothering from international perspectives. Considering self-care, rapport, trust and self-reflection, the collection advances methodological practice in the study of mothers, carers and childless women's lives.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Biographical Approaches to Mothering- Identities and Lived Realities – Lyudmila Nurse, Lisa Moran and Kateřina Sidiropulu-Janků 1. Becoming and Being a Polish Mother: Narratives on the Motherhood Experience - Katarzyna Gajek, Poland 2. “A Good Mother is a Good Mother and a Good Wife”: Gender Politics, and Mothering Practice Among Older Iranian Muslim Women - Elham Amini, UK 3. The Emergence of a Pandemic, Biographical Disruption and the Exploration of Mothering and Shifting Identities - Fibian Lukalo, Kenya 4. Biographies of Roma Mothering in Contemporary Czechia. Exploring Tapestries of Multi-ethnic Gendered Identity in a Marginalised Social Position - Kateřina Sidiropulu Janků, Austria & Jana Obrovská, Czech Republic 5. Identities and Life Choices of Mothers in a Disadvantaged Neighbourhood in England - Lyudmila Nurse, UK 6. Giving Voice to Irish Mothers Experiencing Separation and Divorce - Rosemary Crosse and Michelle Millar, Ireland 7. Ideal, Good Enough, and Failed Motherhood: How Disabled Canadian Mothers Manage in Hostile Circumstances - Claudia Malacrida, Canada 8. Confronting Meanings of Motherhood in Neoliberal Australia: Six Crystallized Case Studies - Laetitia Coles, Emma Cooke & Jasneek Chawla, Australia 9. Unplanned Breakdown of Foster Mothering. Biographical Perspectives on Identity Challenges of Foster Mothers - Daniela Reimer, Switzerland 10. Non-Mothers: Identities, Ambiguity, Biography Making and Life Choices - Joan Cronin, Ireland Conclusion: Exploring Mothering in Future Biographical Research- Inter-disciplinarity, Trans-disciplinarity and New Research Agendas - Lisa Moran, Lyudmila Nurse and Kateřina Sidiropulu-Janků

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Book SynopsisBrilliantly attuned to the demands placed on researchers, this book considers how students, academics and professionals alike can save time and stress without compromising the quality of their research or its outcomes.Table of Contents1. Introduction Chapter summary Introduction Being a researcher Why do practitioners do research? Insider and outsider research Doing research or evaluation Managing and commissioning research or evaluation Terminology Structure of this book Case studies Exercise Discussion questions Debate topic 2. Overview of research Chapter summary Introduction Quantitative or qualitative? Solo or collaborative? Highly time-consuming methods Conclusion Case studies Exercises Discussion questions Debate topic 3. Research and evaluation ethics Chapter summary Introduction Research ethics management Ethics through the research process Researcher wellbeing Conclusion Case studies Exercises Discussion questions Debate topic 4. Methodologies, approaches and theories Chapter summary Introduction Methodologies, methods and approaches Positivist methodology Realist methodologies Constructionist methodologies Interpretivist methodologies Transformative methodologies Ontology and epistemology Action research Evaluation research Mixed methods research Arts-based research Digitally mediated research The role of theory in research and evaluation Theory, research, practice Conclusion Case studies Exercises Discussion questions Debate topic 5. Topics and proposals Chapter summary Introduction Choosing a research or evaluation topic Refining your topic From question to data How much data? Qualitative or quantitative methods? Sampling techniques Probability samples Non-probability sampling What is evidence? Writing a proposal Research funders Conclusion Case studies Exercises Discussion questions Debate topic 6. Managing your research or evaluation project Chapter summary Introduction Planning Organisation Time management Support from employers Creative time management Reward yourself Look after yourself Conclusion Case studies Exercises Discussion questions Debate topic 7. Background research Chapter summary Introduction Document review or literature review? Record-keeping Critical and strategic reading Finding academic journal articles How to conduct a document review How to conduct a literature review Using libraries Making notes Knowing when to stop Conclusion Case studies Exercises Discussion questions Debate topic 8. Secondary data Chapter summary Introduction Online secondary data sources Open data Application programming interfaces Large-scale surveys Working with secondary data Conclusion Case studies Exercises Discussion questions Debate topic 9. Primary data collection: conventional methods Chapter summary Introduction Collecting quantitative data Collecting qualitative data Conclusion Case studies Exercises Discussion questions Debate topic 10. Primary data collection: creative methods Chapter summary Introduction Collecting data online Smartphones Enhanced interviews and focus groups Diaries, field notes, journals and logs Visual data Mapping Mobile methods Case studies Collaborative methods Conclusion Case studies Exercises Discussion questions Debate topic 11. Quantitative data analysis Chapter summary Introduction Preparing quantitative data Coding quantitative data Quantitative data analysis Descriptive statistics Inferential statistics Conclusion Case studies Exercises Discussion questions Debate topic 12. Qualitative data analysis Chapter summary Introduction Preparing qualitative data Coding qualitative data Qualitative data analysis A real-life example of qualitative data analysis Data synthesis Conclusion Case studies Exercises Discussion questions Debate topic 13. Writing for research and evaluation Chapter summary Introduction Myths about writing The writing process Structure Plagiarism Citation Findings versus recommendations Editing Polishing your writing Conclusion Case studies Exercises Discussion questions Debate topic 14. Disseminating research and evaluation Chapter summary Introduction Summarising research or evaluation Barriers to disseminating research and evaluation Presenting findings in person Sharing findings online Data visualisation Dissemination methods Disseminating workplace research Disseminating academic research Dissemination ethics Conclusion Case studies Exercises Discussion questions Debate topic 15. How can research create positive change? Chapter summary Introduction Research impact Research into policy Implementation Knowledge exchange A holistic approach Conclusion Case studies Exercises Discussion questions Debate topic 16. Conclusion

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Book SynopsisBrilliantly attuned to the demands placed on researchers, this book considers how students, academics and professionals alike can save time and stress without compromising the quality of their research or its outcomes.Table of Contents1. Introduction Chapter summary Introduction Being a researcher Why do practitioners do research? Insider and outsider research Doing research or evaluation Managing and commissioning research or evaluation Terminology Structure of this book Case studies Exercise Discussion questions Debate topic 2. Overview of research Chapter summary Introduction Quantitative or qualitative? Solo or collaborative? Highly time-consuming methods Conclusion Case studies Exercises Discussion questions Debate topic 3. Research and evaluation ethics Chapter summary Introduction Research ethics management Ethics through the research process Researcher wellbeing Conclusion Case studies Exercises Discussion questions Debate topic 4. Methodologies, approaches and theories Chapter summary Introduction Methodologies, methods and approaches Positivist methodology Realist methodologies Constructionist methodologies Interpretivist methodologies Transformative methodologies Ontology and epistemology Action research Evaluation research Mixed methods research Arts-based research Digitally mediated research The role of theory in research and evaluation Theory, research, practice Conclusion Case studies Exercises Discussion questions Debate topic 5. Topics and proposals Chapter summary Introduction Choosing a research or evaluation topic Refining your topic From question to data How much data? Qualitative or quantitative methods? Sampling techniques Probability samples Non-probability sampling What is evidence? Writing a proposal Research funders Conclusion Case studies Exercises Discussion questions Debate topic 6. Managing your research or evaluation project Chapter summary Introduction Planning Organisation Time management Support from employers Creative time management Reward yourself Look after yourself Conclusion Case studies Exercises Discussion questions Debate topic 7. Background research Chapter summary Introduction Document review or literature review? Record-keeping Critical and strategic reading Finding academic journal articles How to conduct a document review How to conduct a literature review Using libraries Making notes Knowing when to stop Conclusion Case studies Exercises Discussion questions Debate topic 8. Secondary data Chapter summary Introduction Online secondary data sources Open data Application programming interfaces Large-scale surveys Working with secondary data Conclusion Case studies Exercises Discussion questions Debate topic 9. Primary data collection: conventional methods Chapter summary Introduction Collecting quantitative data Collecting qualitative data Conclusion Case studies Exercises Discussion questions Debate topic 10. Primary data collection: creative methods Chapter summary Introduction Collecting data online Smartphones Enhanced interviews and focus groups Diaries, field notes, journals and logs Visual data Mapping Mobile methods Case studies Collaborative methods Conclusion Case studies Exercises Discussion questions Debate topic 11. Quantitative data analysis Chapter summary Introduction Preparing quantitative data Coding quantitative data Quantitative data analysis Descriptive statistics Inferential statistics Conclusion Case studies Exercises Discussion questions Debate topic 12. Qualitative data analysis Chapter summary Introduction Preparing qualitative data Coding qualitative data Qualitative data analysis A real-life example of qualitative data analysis Data synthesis Conclusion Case studies Exercises Discussion questions Debate topic 13. Writing for research and evaluation Chapter summary Introduction Myths about writing The writing process Structure Plagiarism Citation Findings versus recommendations Editing Polishing your writing Conclusion Case studies Exercises Discussion questions Debate topic 14. Disseminating research and evaluation Chapter summary Introduction Summarising research or evaluation Barriers to disseminating research and evaluation Presenting findings in person Sharing findings online Data visualisation Dissemination methods Disseminating workplace research Disseminating academic research Dissemination ethics Conclusion Case studies Exercises Discussion questions Debate topic 15. How can research create positive change? Chapter summary Introduction Research impact Research into policy Implementation Knowledge exchange A holistic approach Conclusion Case studies Exercises Discussion questions Debate topic 16. Conclusion

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Book SynopsisThis edited collection explores and illustrates the nature of research for social justice. Drawing on a diverse range of social research projects, it sets out what a rights-based approach to research looks like, why this framework matters and how we can translate them into operational research.Table of Contents1. Researching for social justice: an introduction - Kathryn McGarry, Ciara Bradley and Gloria Kirwan PART I: Contextualising and theorising research for social justice 2. Epistemic privilege as a social justice issue: knowing injustice and justice for knowers - Kathryn McGarry 3. Epistemology, research design and social justice - Ciara Bradley and Lynsey Kavanagh 4. Using a social justice lens in research engagements for community work and youth work practice - Sinead McMahon, Ciara Bradley and Hilary Tierney PART II: Designing and operationalising methodologies for social justice 5. Using Poststructural Policy Analysis for social justice - Sinead McMahon 6. Research with deaf and hard-of-hearing women: reimagining social justice as flourishing - Grainne Meehan 7. Sanctuary: trespassing the enclosure of rights - David Donovan 8. Using peer engagement to support the participation of people who use drugs in research - Brian Melaugh and Andy O’Hara PART III: Exploring case studies in research for social justice 9. Beyond research extractivism in environmental justice research - Jamie Gorman 10. When objects speak louder than words: material ethnography in social justice research - Gloria Kirwan and Calvin Swords 11. An expanded conceptualisation and definition of engaged research - Rory Hearne 12. Social justice as tool and process in research: progressing insight into children’s right to participation through Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis - Breda O’Driscoll and Gloria Kirwan 13. The potential for Q-Methodology in promoting human rights and social justice: a case of social workers in practice research - Johanna O’Shea 14. Reflecting as a pracademic in policy land: using research and practice to advance social justice in the hate crime policy domain - Seamus Taylor 15. Concluding thoughts - Kathryn McGarry, Ciara Bradley and Gloria Kirwan

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Book SynopsisThe World Bank's Service Delivery Indicators (SDI) surveys aim to measure the quality of services when the service meets the citizens: in schools and health facilities.

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Book SynopsisProviding a history of experimental methods and frameworks in anthropology from the 1920s to the present, Michael M. J. Fischer draws on his real world, multi-causal, multi-scale, and multi-locale research to rebuild theory for the twenty-first century.Trade Review"Anthropology in the Meantime is a rich collection of essays in tune with the central debates in contemporary cultural anthropology. . . . It serves as a survey of the present state of the field, identifying the tensions and re-inscribing them in the long tradition of anthropological scholarship. . . . Recommended. Advanced undergraduates and above." -- A. Ponce de Leon * Choice *" [This book] maintains a productive line that brings one back to the spirit, above all, of ethnographic exploration as idea and method mining. ... I believe it arrives at a perfect moment. [Fischer] contributes to various contemporary discussions within anthropology on religion, film, politics, postcolonialism, and gender/sexuality." -- Joseph Russo * Anthropological Quarterly *“This wonderful and well-researched collection of essays on third ethnographic spaces offers a pragmatic vision for anthropology in the Kantian spirit of the formation of a world society. A must read indeed in times of rapid change.” -- Michelangelo Paganopoulos * Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute *Table of ContentsPrologue: Changing Modes of Ethnographic Authority 1 Part I. Ethnography in the Meantime 1. Experimental Ethnography in Ink, Light, Sound, and Performance 39 2. Ontology and Metaphysics Are False Leads 49 3. Pure Logic and Typologizing Are False Leads 79 Part II. Ground-Truthing 4. Violence and Deep Play 99 5. Amazonian Ethnography and the Politics of Renewal 114 6. Ethnic Violence, Galactic Polities, and the Great Transformation 130 Part III. Tone and Tuning 7. Health Care in India 161 8. Hospitality 186 9. Anthropology and Philosophy 198 Part IV. Temporalities and Recursivities 10. Changing Media of Ethnographic Writing 233 11. Recalling Writing Culture 258 12. Anthropological Modes of Concern 276 Epilogue: Third Spaces and Ethnography in the Anthropocene 298 Acknowledgments 345 Notes 349 Bibliography 391 Index 429

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Book SynopsisIn the 1950s the colonial British government in Northern and Southern Rhodesia (present-day Zambia and Zimbabwe) began construction on a large hydroelectric dam that created Lake Kariba and dislocated nearly 60,000 indigenous residents. Three decades later, Pamela Reynolds began fieldwork with the Tonga people to study the lasting effects of the dispossession of their land on their lives. In The Uncaring, Intricate WorldReynolds shares her field diary, in which she records her efforts to study children and their labor and, by doing so, exposes the character of everyday life. More than a memoir, her diary captures the range of pleasures, difficulties, frustrations, contradictions, and grappling with ethical questions that all anthropologists experience in the field. The Uncaring, Intricate World concludes with afterwords by Jane I. Guyer and Julie Livingston, who critically reflect on its context, its meaning for today, and relevance to conducting anthropological work.Trade Review“Pamela Reynolds's ethnography-diary The Uncaring, Intricate World elegantly captures the vicissitudes of life in a setting of breathtaking sunsets, stunning moon rises, brutal gusts of night wind, and the ceaselessly annoying high pitch of the mosquito's whine. In the pages of this wonderful book she presents a complex cast of memorable characters whose life challenges underscore both the fragility and resilience of the human condition as well as the small pleasures of sipping brandy after a long day of being-in-the-world.” -- Paul Stoller, author of * Adventures in Blogging: Public Anthropology and Popular Media *“The dated entries in The Uncaring, Intricate World bring into view not what is hidden and occult but what is before our eyes. Pamela Reynolds's writings are renowned for showing us that children haunt anthropological texts even as they go unacknowledged—yet this book adds an entirely new dimension to Reynolds's work by revealing the child who hides in the anthropologist.” -- Veena Das, Krieger-Eisenhower Professor of Anthropology, Johns Hopkins University"Reynolds engages with familiar fieldwork dilemmas – ethical, practical, methodological, social – with thoughtful candour." -- Hayley Macgregor * Times Literary Supplement *"Uncaring, Intricate World is well-structured, easy to read and intellectually stimulating. . . . It presents us with a different ethnographic form from the monograph, a deeply immersive, descriptive, everyday sense of what anthropologists do and what anthropology is and can be." -- Joshua Matanzima * Journal of Southern African Studies *"As we read, we cannot help but conclude that the book’s title is very appropriate. We come to know the culture and relationships of the Tonga people as extremely intricate. . . . Reynolds helps us see these intricacies, and we finish reading caring about these people." -- David W. Restrick * African Studies Quarterly *"A wonderful book to read. . . . While this diary documents happenings from nearly forty years ago, many of the observations are still relevant today. This is a vital source of insight for current students and researchers. It is beautifully written and edited and provides glimpses into a world many of us who study and write on Zimbabwe are familiar with." -- Rory Pilossof * African Studies Review *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Foreword. The Unsubstantial Territory / Todd Meyers xi Introduction 1 A Field Diary 31 Afterword. Noticing Life, Matters Arising / Jane I. Guyer 173 Afterword. Sitting Quietly, Traveling in Time / Julie Livingston 175 Glossary 179 Bibliography 185 Index 189

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Book SynopsisIn the 1950s the colonial British government in Northern and Southern Rhodesia (present-day Zambia and Zimbabwe) began construction on a large hydroelectric dam that created Lake Kariba and dislocated nearly 60,000 indigenous residents. Three decades later, Pamela Reynolds began fieldwork with the Tonga people to study the lasting effects of the dispossession of their land on their lives. In The Uncaring, Intricate WorldReynolds shares her field diary, in which she records her efforts to study children and their labor and, by doing so, exposes the character of everyday life. More than a memoir, her diary captures the range of pleasures, difficulties, frustrations, contradictions, and grappling with ethical questions that all anthropologists experience in the field. The Uncaring, Intricate World concludes with afterwords by Jane I. Guyer and Julie Livingston, who critically reflect on its context, its meaning for today, and relevance to conducting anthropological work.Trade Review“Pamela Reynolds's ethnography-diary The Uncaring, Intricate World elegantly captures the vicissitudes of life in a setting of breathtaking sunsets, stunning moon rises, brutal gusts of night wind, and the ceaselessly annoying high pitch of the mosquito's whine. In the pages of this wonderful book she presents a complex cast of memorable characters whose life challenges underscore both the fragility and resilience of the human condition as well as the small pleasures of sipping brandy after a long day of being-in-the-world.” -- Paul Stoller, author of * Adventures in Blogging: Public Anthropology and Popular Media *“The dated entries in The Uncaring, Intricate World bring into view not what is hidden and occult but what is before our eyes. Pamela Reynolds's writings are renowned for showing us that children haunt anthropological texts even as they go unacknowledged—yet this book adds an entirely new dimension to Reynolds's work by revealing the child who hides in the anthropologist.” -- Veena Das, Krieger-Eisenhower Professor of Anthropology, Johns Hopkins University"Reynolds engages with familiar fieldwork dilemmas – ethical, practical, methodological, social – with thoughtful candour." -- Hayley Macgregor * Times Literary Supplement *"Uncaring, Intricate World is well-structured, easy to read and intellectually stimulating. . . . It presents us with a different ethnographic form from the monograph, a deeply immersive, descriptive, everyday sense of what anthropologists do and what anthropology is and can be." -- Joshua Matanzima * Journal of Southern African Studies *"As we read, we cannot help but conclude that the book’s title is very appropriate. We come to know the culture and relationships of the Tonga people as extremely intricate. . . . Reynolds helps us see these intricacies, and we finish reading caring about these people." -- David W. Restrick * African Studies Quarterly *"A wonderful book to read. . . . While this diary documents happenings from nearly forty years ago, many of the observations are still relevant today. This is a vital source of insight for current students and researchers. It is beautifully written and edited and provides glimpses into a world many of us who study and write on Zimbabwe are familiar with." -- Rory Pilossof * African Studies Review *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Foreword. The Unsubstantial Territory / Todd Meyers xi Introduction 1 A Field Diary 31 Afterword. Noticing Life, Matters Arising / Jane I. Guyer 173 Afterword. Sitting Quietly, Traveling in Time / Julie Livingston 175 Glossary 179 Bibliography 185 Index 189

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Book Synopsis2024 Daniel E. Griffiths Research Award WinnerAn expansive volume presenting crip approaches to writing, research, and publishing. Crip Authorship: Disability as Method is an expansive volume presenting the multidisciplinary methods brought into being by disability studies and activism. Mara Mills and Rebecca Sanchez have convened leading scholars, artists, and activists to explore the ways disability shapes authorship, transforming cultural production, aesthetics, and media.Starting from the premise that disability is plural and authorship spans composition, affect, and publishing, this collection of thirty-five compact essays asks how knowledge about disability is produced and shared in disability studies. Disability alters, generates, and dismantles method. Crip authorship takes place within and beyond the commodity version of authorship, in books, on social media, and in creative works that will never be published. The Trade ReviewCrip Authorship moves directly into the most urgent debates in critical disability studies, focusing on questions of methodology, race, queerness, cross-disability solidarity, and what it means to make or publish crip work. An extraordinary array of authors, both emerging and well-known, contribute original pieces and provoke thrilling new conversations. This remarkable volume will be of interest to readers across many fields and methodological orientations. Crip Authorship argues for, and also demonstrates, the powerful interdisciplinarity of crip scholarship and its potential to work toward greater justice. * Margaret Price, author of Crip Spacetime *This is a fantastic, urgent, singular, and kaleidoscopic book. Crip Authorship uses disability to explode the very idea of method: this is a book about research, but also about writing, thinking, publishing, and inhabiting. Crip Authorship is essential reading for any scholar who does anything with disability in their work; it is even more essential reading for those who don’t. This is a field-changing collection. * Jonathan Sterne, author of Diminished Faculties: A Political Phenomenology of Impairment *This field-changing collection is theoretically sophisticated and politically charged! This book crucially shows how disability is not only an identity formation, but also a method to revise how we write, critique, and enact change. The collection most importantly engages disability as it relates to race, the non-West, colonialism, sexuality, gender identity, and class, offering an exciting and much needed model for our field. This text redefines how we theorize, imagine, and produce disability. * Hentyle Yapp, University of California, San Diego *This illuminating collection of essays focuses on the variety and value of crip creation, methodology, writing and research. With contributions from Mel Y Chen, Jaipreet Virdi, Emily Lim Rogers, Ellen Samuels and many more, it is urgent and original. -- Karla Strand * Ms. Magazine *

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Book SynopsisReimagines the field of queer studies by asking How do we do queer theory? Imagining Queer Methods showcases the methodological renaissance unfolding in queer scholarship. This volume brings together emerging and esteemed researchers from all corners of the academy who are defining new directions for the field. From critical race studies, history, journalism, lesbian feminist studies, literature, media studies, and performance studies to anthropology, education, psychology, sociology, and urban planning, this impressive interdisciplinary collection covers topics such as humanistic approaches to reading, theorizing, and interpreting, as well as scientific appeals to measurement, modeling, sampling, and statistics. By bringing together these diverse voices into an unprecedented single volume, Amin Ghaziani and Matt Brim inspire us with innovative ways of thinking about methods and methodologies in queer studies.Trade Review"For those working in the areas of queer theory or queer studies, we know that the question of something called ‘queer methods’ or ‘queer methodologies’ is a long-standing and vexing one. It is a mixing of two ideas that on first blush appear incompatible—that is, ‘queerness’ and ‘method.’ The latter calls to mind the possibility of unified disciples, fixed approaches, and data sets, while the former defies any such easy categorical coherence. Imagining Queer Methods is nothing less than a manifesto on the future of how these two seemingly orthogonal terms can together be productively engaged in knowledge production. Amin Ghaziani and Matt Brim, two leading voices among their generation of queer theorists, have carefully curated an impressive array of transdisciplinary voices who do precisely that in the essays contained in this volume." -- Dwight A. McBride, author of Why I Hate Abercrombie & Fitch: Essays On Race and Sexuality"Imagining Queer Methods jumpstarts a much-needed conversation among sociologists, historians, and literary theorists about what exactly it means to ‘do’ queer work. Original and path-breaking, Imagining Queer Methods will change the way we think about and practice our scholarship." -- Arlene Stein, author of Unbound: Transgender Men and the Transformation of Identity"The scholars and activists of Imagining Queer Methods dare to ask not only ‘why’ but ‘how.’ Through oral history, community study, social mapping, and manifesto they break through the artificial divide between academic and activist methods in order to name and support the political and procedural protocols that might—with struggle and care—give birth to dynamic practices of queer liberation." -- Robert F. Reid-Pharr, author of Archives of Flesh: Spain, African America, and Post-Humanist Critique"Smart, scrappy, and exciting, Imagining Queer Methods brings together top scholars from across disciplines for a provocative tour of how queerness can challenge and invigorate research enterprises" -- Joshua Gamson, author of Modern Families: Stories of Extraordinary Journeys to Kinship"Is 'queer methods' an oxymoron? Not according to this volume, which takes aim at the longstanding assumption that the political force of queer studies arises from its anti-disciplinary commitments. Provocative, timely, and fierce, Imagining Queer Methods is both a case study and manifesto for why methods matter." -- Robyn Wiegman,author of Object Lessons"This volume is highly recommended for graduate students and scholars who seek to understand queer methods and apply them in their own work." * CHOICE *

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Book SynopsisReimagines the field of queer studies by asking How do we do queer theory? Imagining Queer Methods showcases the methodological renaissance unfolding in queer scholarship. This volume brings together emerging and esteemed researchers from all corners of the academy who are defining new directions for the field. From critical race studies, history, journalism, lesbian feminist studies, literature, media studies, and performance studies to anthropology, education, psychology, sociology, and urban planning, this impressive interdisciplinary collection covers topics such as humanistic approaches to reading, theorizing, and interpreting, as well as scientific appeals to measurement, modeling, sampling, and statistics. By bringing together these diverse voices into an unprecedented single volume, Amin Ghaziani and Matt Brim inspire us with innovative ways of thinking about methods and methodologies in queer studies.Trade Review"For those working in the areas of queer theory or queer studies, we know that the question of something called ‘queer methods’ or ‘queer methodologies’ is a long-standing and vexing one. It is a mixing of two ideas that on first blush appear incompatible—that is, ‘queerness’ and ‘method.’ The latter calls to mind the possibility of unified disciples, fixed approaches, and data sets, while the former defies any such easy categorical coherence. Imagining Queer Methods is nothing less than a manifesto on the future of how these two seemingly orthogonal terms can together be productively engaged in knowledge production. Amin Ghaziani and Matt Brim, two leading voices among their generation of queer theorists, have carefully curated an impressive array of transdisciplinary voices who do precisely that in the essays contained in this volume." -- Dwight A. McBride, author of Why I Hate Abercrombie & Fitch: Essays On Race and Sexuality"Imagining Queer Methods jumpstarts a much-needed conversation among sociologists, historians, and literary theorists about what exactly it means to ‘do’ queer work. Original and path-breaking, Imagining Queer Methods will change the way we think about and practice our scholarship." -- Arlene Stein, author of Unbound: Transgender Men and the Transformation of Identity"The scholars and activists of Imagining Queer Methods dare to ask not only ‘why’ but ‘how.’ Through oral history, community study, social mapping, and manifesto they break through the artificial divide between academic and activist methods in order to name and support the political and procedural protocols that might—with struggle and care—give birth to dynamic practices of queer liberation." -- Robert F. Reid-Pharr, author of Archives of Flesh: Spain, African America, and Post-Humanist Critique"Smart, scrappy, and exciting, Imagining Queer Methods brings together top scholars from across disciplines for a provocative tour of how queerness can challenge and invigorate research enterprises" -- Joshua Gamson, author of Modern Families: Stories of Extraordinary Journeys to Kinship"Is 'queer methods' an oxymoron? Not according to this volume, which takes aim at the longstanding assumption that the political force of queer studies arises from its anti-disciplinary commitments. Provocative, timely, and fierce, Imagining Queer Methods is both a case study and manifesto for why methods matter." -- Robyn Wiegman,author of Object Lessons"This volume is highly recommended for graduate students and scholars who seek to understand queer methods and apply them in their own work." * CHOICE *

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Book SynopsisThis volume presents a unified and up-to-date account of the theory and methods of applying one of the most useful and widely applicable techniques of data analysis, ‘dual scaling.’ It addresses issues of interest to a wide variety of researchers concerned with data that are categorical in nature or by design: in the life sciences, the social sciences, and statistics.The eight chapters introduce the nature of categorical data and concept of dual scaling and present the applications of dual scaling to different forms of categorical data: the contingency table, the response-frequency table, the response-pattern table for multiple-choice data, ranking and paired comparison data, multidimensional tables, partially ordered and successively ordered categories, and incomplete data. The book also includes appendices outlining a minimum package of matrix calculus and a small FORTRAN program.Clear, concise, and comprehensive, Analysis of Categorical Data will be a

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Book SynopsisThe nonprofit sector has changed in fundamental ways in recent decades. As the sector has grown in scope and size, both domestically and internationally, the boundaries between for-profit, governmental, and charitable organizations have become intertwined. Nonprofits are increasingly challenged on their roles in mitigating or exacerbating inequality. And debates flare over the role of voluntary organizations in democratic and autocratic societies alike. The Nonprofit Sector takes up these concerns and offers a cutting-edge empirical and theoretical assessment of the state of the field. This book, now in its third edition, brings together leading researchers—economists, historians, philosophers, political scientists, and sociologists along with scholars from communication, education, law, management, and policy schools—to investigate the impact of associational life. Chapters consider the history of the nonprofit sector and of philanthropy; the politics of the public sphere; governance, mission, and engagement; access and inclusion; and global perspectives on nonprofit organizations. Across this comprehensive range of topics, The Nonprofit Sector makes an essential contribution to the study of civil society.Trade Review"The nonprofit form has spread around the world as a unique alternative to markets and governments. This third edition of The Nonprofit Sector provides great insight into this phenomenon, and is as exciting and informative as the previous two. With fresh faces and insights, it is a real joy to read."—Joseph Galaskiewicz, University of Arizona"Now in its third edition, The Nonprofit Sector continues to build the field of nonprofit studies by exploring the full range of organizations, associations, actions, and interactions that constitute the voluntary sector in the US and globally. Featuring a broad and multidisciplinary range of scholars, this work provokes us to reexamine the history and envision the future of nonprofit scholarship and practice. The Nonprofit Sector generates a rich research agenda that will stimulate novel and innovative scholarship for years to come."—Mary Kay Gugerty, University of Washington"Walter Powell, Patricia Bromley, and Stanford University Press are to be congratulated for assembling this timely, unique, and definitive volume which not only chronicles the history of the nonprofit sector but also provides a broad but critical analysis of its current state. This third edition of The Nonprofit Sector presents a wide range of carefully chosen scholarship which will ensure that this book remains an invaluable resource to the growing number of scholars and practitioners in the sector around the world. It is an essential handbook for the leadership of nonprofit and philanthropic institutions, their governing boards, as well as public officials and journalists."—Vartan Gregorian, President, Carnegie Corporation of New YorkTable of Contents1. What Is the Nonprofit Sector? —Walter W. Powell 2. A History of Associational Life and the Nonprofit Sector in the United States —Benjamin Soskis 3. Seeing Like a Philanthropist: From the Business of Benevolence to the Benevolence of Business —Aaron Horvath and Walter W. Powell 4. The Organizational Transformation of Civil Society —Patricia Bromley 5. Tangled Up in Tax: The Nonprofit Sector and the Federal Tax System —Daniel J. Hemel 6. Political Theory and the Nonprofit Sector —Ted Lechterman and Rob Reich 7. Nonprofits as Boundary Markers: The Politics of Choice, Mobilization, and Arbitrage —Elisabeth S. Clemens 8. Politics, Philanthropy, and Inequality —Sarah Reckhow 9. Toward a Governance Framework for Government–Nonprofit Relations —Nicole P. Marwell and Maoz Brown 10. Social Service Nonprofits: Navigating Conflicting Demands —Jennifer E. Mosley 11. Nonprofits as Urban Infrastructure —Christof Brandtner and Claire Dunning 12. Immigrant Organizations: Civic (In)equality and Civic (In)visibility —Irene Bloemraad, Shannon Gleeson, and Els de Graauw 13. Economic Theories of the Social Sector: From Nonprofits to Social Enterprise —Maitreesh Ghatak 14. Social Entrepreneurship: Research as Disciplined Exploration —Johanna Mair 15. Nonprofits and the Environment: Using Market Forces for Social Good —Magali A. Delmas, Thomas P. Lyon, and Sean Jackson 16. The Outcomes Movement in Philanthropy and the Nonprofit Sector —Paul Brest 17. Charitable Nonprofits and the Business of Health Care —Jill R. Horwitz 18. Education and the Nonprofit Sector: Schools and Organizational Intermediaries —Richard Arum and Jacob L. Kepins 19. Nonprofit Arts Organizations: Sustainability and Rationales for Support —Francie Ostrower 20. Advocacy, Civic Engagement, and Social Change —David Suárez 21. The Changing Face of Nonprofit Advocacy: Democratizing Potentials and Risks in an Unequal Context —Edward T. Walker and Yotala Oszkay Febres-Cordero 22. Advocating for What? The Nonprofit Press and Models of the Public —Mike Ananny 23. What Influences Charitable Giving? —Pamela Paxton 24. The Altruism Budget: Measuring and Encouraging Charitable Giving —Laura K. Gee and Jonathan Meer 25. What Do Volunteers Do? —Nina Eliasoph 26. Religious Organizations: Crosscutting the Nonprofit Sector —Brad R. Fulton 27. The Global Rise of Nongovernmental Organizations —Evan Schofer and Wesley Longhofer 28. Global Backlash Against Foreign Funding to Domestic Nongovernmental Organizations —Kendra Dupuy and Aseem Prakash 29. Social Movements in a Global Context: History, Content, and Form —Breno Bringel and Elizabeth McKenna 30. Comparative Nonprofit Sector Research: A Critical Assessment —Helmut K. Anheier, Markus Lang, and Stefan Toepler

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Book SynopsisUnlike other athletes, the rock climber tends to disregard established norms of style and technique, doing whatever she needs to do to get to the next foothold. This figure provides an apt analogy for the scholar at the center of this unique book. In Rocking Qualitative Social Science, Ashley Rubin provides an entertaining treatise, corrective vision, and rigorously informative guidebook for qualitative research methods that have long been dismissed in deference to traditional scientific methods. Recognizing the steep challenges facing many, especially junior, social science scholars who struggle to adapt their research models to narrowly defined notions of "right," Rubin argues that properly nourished qualitative research can generate important, creative, and even paradigm-shifting insights. This book is designed to help people conduct good qualitative research, talk about their research, and evaluate other scholars' work. Drawing on her own experiences in research and life, Rubin provides tools for qualitative scholars, synthesizes the best advice, and addresses the ubiquitous problem of anxiety in academia. Ultimately, this book argues that rigorous research can be anything but rigid.Trade Review"In this utterly refreshing account, Rubin makes the research process fun again. By deconstructing the limits we place upon ourselves as qualitative researchers, this book opens up new pathways for rigorous, empirical research that is grounded in thoughtful and reflective processes. Those new to the field and those seeking to build confidence or rethink their strategies will benefit from this readable and inspiring guide." -- Sarah Lageson * author of Give Methods a Chance *"Rocking Qualitative Social Science is Ashley Rubin's love letter to her fellow dirtbaggers—we DIY-minded scholars who ask unconventional questions, find and forge new ways to untangle complex social problems, and obsessively track down leads and explore unusual spaces. Packed with useful advice for every stage of the research process, Rubin's methodological mixtape celebrates the robust community of gritty, dedicated investigators and storytellers pushing social science forward." -- Joshua Page, Associate Professor of Sociology and Law * University of Minnesota *Table of ContentsContents and Abstracts1Introduction to Dirtbagging chapter abstractThis chapter introduces the Dirtbagging approach to qualitative social science research. The chapter lays out the main themes and arguments of the book, contrasting the Dirtbagging approach to the traditional approaches, and argues that there is no One Right Way of doing research. It also introduces rock climbing as the major motif for the book and what we can learn from rock climbers. 2Topo: What Exactly Are Qualitative Methods? chapter abstractThis chapter tries to define qualitative methods, while discussing some of the difficulties with the most common ways to define them. We begin with a rundown of the typical methods of qualitative data collection but note that qualitative data can also be quantitatively analyzed. We then review a lot of the traditional ideas or even stereotypes about qualitative methods, pointing out that they have been repeatedly challenged lately. Consequently, the easy markers of qualitative methods recited in various texts no longer hold up very well. Finally, we discuss when qualitative methods are appropriate and what type of research they let you do. 3Picking Your Proj: Identifying Your Research Question chapter abstractThis chapter seeks to do four things. First, it describes the role of research questions in the larger research process. Second, and building on that first discussion, this chapter dispels some misconceptions about research questions, especially what counts as a research question and why people disagree about this. Third, the chapter discusses strategies for coming up with a research question. Finally, it identifies some of the secrets about research questions relating to challenges and opportunities that can arise, particularly when you are Dirtbagging about in the field. 4On Belay: Connecting Your Work to an Anchor chapter abstractThis chapter discusses how to anchor your work to the academic literature. Importantly, even though there is a lot of advice out there on how to do this, much of it is unhelpful. So this chapter discusses some of the key ways in which people tend to evaluate research—not so much in its nitty gritty details of research design and analysis, but in terms of whether your entire project is worthwhile. I maintain that you can pretty much make any project valuable, but you have to be able to do certain things to convince people of your project's worth. If you can't do those things, then maybe it's not actually a good project. 5Mapping out the Route: How and When Research Design Matters chapter abstractThis chapter is the first of three chapters on research design. Research design is how you explain or justify your decisions about how to collect and analyze your data. Your explanation may not actually be what guided your decisions (the conventional idea of research design is that it takes place before you collect and analyze your data). But your ability to defend your choices is key to how we evaluate research. This chapter addresses general things about planning and executing your research, such as whether you want to map everything out carefully ahead of time or play it by ear. Keeping these things in mind—not necessarily acting on them immediately but letting them inform your decisions—will lead to a better project. 6Starting on the Right Foot: Making and Justifying Your Case Selection chapter abstractThis chapter reviews the various considerations that go into case selection, which everyone has to do (whether you think you do or not). We start with some strategies for figuring out how to select a case if you are in the design phase and don't know which case(s) to choose. Then we turn the various types of cases we use in social science; each type of case comes with its own justifications for why you might choose this case and not that case. Thinking about these justifications can also remind you about the limits of the type of case you have selected and thus what you can (and can't) claim with your study. The type of case you choose will substantially impact what you can do with your project and what type of relationship your study will have with existing theories. 7Flaking out the Rope: How to Check Your Sample chapter abstractThis chapter examines the issues you need to think about carefully when it comes to your data collection. For starters, we discuss how you decide what data to actually collect. Next, we return to one of the banes of a qualitative scholar's existence: the question of how much data are enough; but rather than worrying about what other people think is the answer to this question, we will answer it on our own terms. Finally, we talk about what you can do to really think through the limitations of your data and how to make your project stronger. Skipping these steps can (justifiably) open you up to criticism. Doing them carefully will protect you against some bad falls. 8Bivvy Time: The Fieldwork Model of Data Collection chapter abstractThis chapter discusses the process of collecting data in "the field," which I define broadly to include any place you collect your data. I have adopted this ethnographic language because it provides a broadly useful model, even for those of us doing online or archival research. In this chapter, I review the specific strategies fieldworkers use that I have found useful in my work. Some readers, who have never conducted ethnographies, will recognize these strategies, because the strategies are not unique to ethnographers. Most of the non-ethnographic methods texts I have come across have not said much about the mundane realities of data collection, while this is something at which ethnographers excel. 9The Crux: Content Analysis, Analytic Memos, and Other Tricks chapter abstractThis chapter discusses the central tools you will need as a qualitative social scientist to analyze your data. While there are certainly more advanced analysis tools, content analysis (open and focused coding) and analytic memos (notes to yourself with varying degrees of analysis) will get you through most projects. Designed and perfected by ethnographers, these tools are once again broadly applicable, whether you are conducting formal interviews, using archival data, or reviewing websites and online documents. They allow you to systematically review your data and keep track of the many insights your mind will be swimming with as you do so. 10Placing Pro: Making Causal Claims with Qualitative Data chapter abstractThis chapter discusses the tricks and tools you can use to establish causal claims and, ultimately, to give yourself—and your audience—confidence that you aren't just making shit up. The more of these tricks you use, the more confidence you will have. I think of it like climbers laying down pro—the more nuts and cams you embed on the wall, the less likely it is that you will plummet to the ground if you miss a handhold and fall. One piece of pro might pop out if it's poorly placed or there's some loose rock, but if you have several pieces placed, you're still safe. Likewise, the more of these extra steps you take, the more confidence you can have—and if you are wrong, the more you can be forgiven for believing you had it right. 11Living on the Sharp End: Dealing with Skeptics of Qualitative Research chapter abstractQualitative scholars frequently face skepticism about their ability to produce high-quality research—and in sufficient amounts. There are many implicit critiques of qualitative methods vis-á-vis quantitative methods when it comes to things like defining qualitative methods (Chapter 2) or making causal inference (Chapter 10). Underlying these critiques are basic misconceptions—on the part of not only critics but also over-eager qualitative researchers—about qualitative methods' inherent limitations. (Bad qualitative research is, sadly, one contributor to these misconceptions.) So part of learning about qualitative methods requires understanding common critiques of qualitative methods, both so you can be prepared to defend your choice of methods and so you can defend against rote critiques. 12The Sweeper chapter abstractThis chapter summarizes the Dirtbagging approach to qualitative social science and revisits why having a flexible, inclusive approach to qualitative research is beneficial for everyone.

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Book SynopsisPerpetrators of mass violence are commonly regarded as evil. Their violent nature is believed to make them commit heinous crimes as members of state agencies, insurgencies, terrorist organizations, or racist and supremacist groups. Upon close examination, however, perpetrators are contradictory human beings who often lead unsettlingly ordinary and uneventful lives. Drawing on decades of on-the-ground research with perpetrators of genocide, mass violence, and enforced disappearances in Cambodia and Argentina, Antonius Robben and Alex Hinton explore how researchers go about not just interviewing and writing about perpetrators, but also processing their own emotions and considering how the personal and interpersonal impact of this sort of research informs the texts that emerge from them. Through interlinked ethnographic essays, methodological and theoretical reflections, and dialogues between the two authors, this thought-provoking book conveys practical wisdom for the benefit of other researchers who face ruthless perpetrators and experience turbulent emotions when listening to perpetrators and their victims. Perpetrators rarely regard themselves as such, and fieldwork with perpetrators makes for situations freighted with emotion. Research with perpetrators is a difficult but important part of understanding the causes of and creating solutions to mass violence, and Robben and Hinton use their expertise to provide insightful lessons on the epistemological, ethical, and emotional challenges of ethnographic fieldwork in the wake of atrocity.Trade Review"In Robben and Hinton's 'encounter with humanity's dark side' the perpetrator researcher and the evildoer become inextricably intertwined. Researchers' intimate fieldwork contact with perpetrators of mass atrocity sullies them, they feel dirty. And, yet, it reveals complex and contradictory human beings that unsettle facile assumptions about their monstrosity. How do researchers incorporate cognitive and affective empathy to understand the 'priming' that make atrocities possible, while condemning those acts? Perpetrators establishes the craft for doing so."—Leigh Payne, Oxford University"Written as a sustained conversation between two foundational figures in the field of perpetrator studies, this book offers a rich exploration of the individuals who operate the machinery of mass murder. The authors combine profound insights into universal phenomena, while demonstrating the importance of understanding local specificities and moral economies. This unsettling book charts a future research agenda for those who seek to understand the disturbing, unholy mixture of humanity among those who engage in lethal violence."—Kimberly Theidon, Tufts University"Perpetrators[:] Encountering Humanity's Dark Side provides a therapeutic and rewarding read for anthropologists and social scientists who have come into contact with agents of violence through their research, as well as for those who expect to do so."—Sergen Bahceci, Anthropology Book Forum"The book offers a curative reading: healing and, at the same time, crafting together pieces to be displayed in search of meaning. A necessary and exceptional book not only for anthropologists researching genocide and mass violence but also for a broader audience interested on how to approach and write about violence."—Corina Tulbure, Conflict and Society"Robben and Hinton set out to at once impart insights they acquired through decades of ethnographical research into genocide and mass violence, which they call phronesis following the ancient Greeks, and to do so in experimental and thought-provoking ways. Perpetrators is more of a guide than a 'how-to' manual, and yet it manages to provide the reader with practical and suggestive ideas for conducting ethnographic research and writing in a way that avoids the rigidity imposed by academia."—Stevan Bozanich, H-Genocide"In writing this book, Robben and Hinton provide a comprehensive and original contribution to the scholarly research on perpetrators of mass violence.... This is a must-read book. Highly recommended."—A. Kolin, CHOICETable of ContentsIntroduction: Approaching Perpetrator Research 1. Spectacular Perpetrators 2. Seductive Perpetrators Interlude: The Perpetrator and the Witness Interlude: "They Were No More. None of Them. They Had Become Disappeared." 3. The Night Stalkers 4. Ruin Interlude: For the Sake of the Fatherland Interlude: Interrogation: Comrade Duch's Abecedarian 5. Nearing the Paradox 6. Curation Conclusion: Six Guideposts for Perpetrator Research

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Book SynopsisDesigning Social Research is a uniquely comprehensive and student-friendly guide to the core knowledge and types of skills required for planning social research. The authors organize the book around four major steps in social research – focusing, framing, selecting and distilling – placing particular emphasis on the formulation of research questions and the choice of appropriate 'logics of inquiry' to answer them. The requirements for research designs and proposals are laid out at the beginning of the book, followed by a discussion of key design issues and research ethics. Four sample research designs on environmental issues illustrate the role of research questions and the application of the four logics of inquiry, and this third edition includes new material dedicated to social research in a digital, networked age. Fully revised and updated, Designing Social Research continues to be an invaluable resource to demystify the research process for advanced undergraduate and graduate students. Together with the authors' Social Research: Paradigms in Action and Blaikie's Approaches to Social Enquiry, it offers social scientists an informative guide to designing social research.Trade Review‘A masterclass in the logic of anticipation when designing social research. Blaikie and Priest explain the choices to be made – and, oh so important, why those decisions need thoughtful planning in advance. I can’t recommend it enough.’Rosalind Edwards, University of Southampton, Co-director of the ESRC National Centre for Research Methods ‘This book reviews the key principles of research design and strategy in ways that blend theoretical sophistication with practical strategic advice: a winning formula. If you produce your research design using this book, and if you really engage with the key issues that Blaikie and Priest write so authoritatively about, you can’t go wrong.’Jennifer Mason, University of ManchesterTable of ContentsIntroduction 1 About the book 2 Preparing Research Designs 3 Four Research Design Tasks 4 Research Ethics Part 1: Focussing 5 Research Questions and Purposes Part 2: Framing 6 Logics for Answering Research Questions Part 3: Selecting 7 Concepts, Theories, Hypotheses and Models 8 Types, Forms, Sources and Selection of Data Part 4: Distilling 9 Methods for Answering Research Questions: Data Gathering, Generation, Reduction and Analysis Researching Networked Worlds 10 Design Considerations 11 Ethics Considerations Illustrations 12 Sample Research Designs Postscript

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Book SynopsisIn the past, happiness studies has been dominated by the work of philosophers, economists and psychologists, but more recently there has been a growing interest from social scientist into the natures of happiness and wellbeing. This original collection draws on the latest empirical research to explore the practical challenges facing happiness researchers today, such as how to conduct happiness research in different cultural contexts, how to theorise wellbeing or how to operationalise definitions of happiness in qualitative and biographical research. By uniquely combining the critical approach of sociology with techniques from other disciplines, the contributors illuminate new approaches to the study of happiness and well-being.Table of ContentsChapter 1. Introduction: Developing Qualitative Research into Happiness and Wellbeing - Mark Cieslik, Northumbria University Qualitative Research into Happiness/Wellbeing: Theories, Debates and Issues Chapter 2. Living Well Together: On Happiness, Social Goods and Genuinely Progressive Sociology - Neil Thin Chapter 3. Happiness as an Affective Practice: Self, Suffering and Biography - Nicholas Hill Chapter 4. Personal Happiness, Social Unhappiness: Understanding the Tomplexity of Individual Happiness Accounts - David Tross Qualitative Research into Happiness/Wellbeing: Communities, Biographies and Identities Chapter 5. Developing a Biographical Approach to Happiness and Wellbeing - Mark Cieslik Chapter 6. Considering the Body in Happiness Research - Richard Gibbons Chapter 7. How can Cultural Heritage Contribute to Community Development and Wellbeing - Claire Wallace and David Beel Chapter 8. On Post-Traumatic Growth and ‘Choosing’ to be Happy: Stories of Positive Change from African Refugees and Asylum Seekers -Brianne Wenning Chapter 9. Using Social Wellbeing to Inform Regeneration Strategies in a Former Colliery Town in Northern England - Kelly Johnson and Sarah Coulthard Qualitative Research into Happiness/Wellbeing: Methodological Innovations Chapter 10. A Board Game Approach to Studying the Multi-dimensionality of Life Satisfaction - Barbara Holthus and Wolfram Manzenreiter Chapter 11. Show Me What Makes you Happy at Work’? Visualising Happiness in the Workplace - Ilona Suojanen

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Book SynopsisUsing rich insights from those with first-hand experience of conducting research in areas of international intervention, this much-needed book provides essential practical guidance and key reflections for researchers and students embarking on fieldwork in violent, repressive and closed contexts. Contributors provide explicit discussion of their mistakes and hard-learned lessons, raising important questions that intervention researchers need to consider before, during and after their research.Table of ContentsPART 1: CONTROL AND CONFUSION; The interview as a cultural performance and the value of surrendering control ~ Markus Göransson; Interpretivist methods and military intervention research: using interview research to de-centre the ‘intervener’ ~ Casey McNeill; Shifting identities, policy networks, and the ethical and practical challenges of gaining access to the field in interventions ~ Roland Kosti?; Being watched and being handled ~ Jesse Driscoll; Unequal research relationships in highly insecure places: of fear, funds and friendship ~ Morten Bøås; PART 2: SECURITY AND RISK; The politics of safe research in violent and illiberal contexts ~ Francesco Strazzari and Alessandra Russo; Challenges of research in an active conflict environment ~ Boukary Sangaré and Jamie Bleck; The politics and ethics of fieldwork in post-conflict environments: the dilemmas of a vocational approach ~ John Heathershaw and Parviz Mullojonov; On assessing risk assessments and situating security advice: the unsettling quest for ‘security expertise’ ~ Judith Verweijen; PART 3: DISTANCE AND CLOSENESS; Positioning in an insecure field: reflections on negotiating identity ~ Maria-Louise Clausen; A different form of intervention? Revisiting the role of researchers in post-war contexts ~ Daniela Lai; The road to Darfur: Ethical and practical challenges of embedded research in areas of open conflict ~ Mateja Peter; Interpretation by proxy? Interpretive fieldwork with local associates in areas of restricted research access ~ Katarina Kuši?; PART 4: SEX AND SENSITIVITY; Sex workers and sugar babies: empathetic engagement with vulnerable sources ~ Kathleen Jennings; Lifting the burden? The ethical implications of studying exemplary, not pathological, wartime sexual conduct ~ Angela Muvumba Sellström; Unexpected grey areas, innuendo and webs of complicity: experiences of researching sexual exploitation in UN peacekeeping missions ~ Henri Myrtinnen; Sexual exploitation, rape and abuse as a narrative and a strategy ~ Ingunn Bjørkhaug; CONCLUSIONS; Lessons for intervention fieldwork in violent and closed contacts ~ Berit Bliesemann de Guevara and Morten Bøås.

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Book SynopsisUsing rich insights from those with first-hand experience of conducting research in areas of international intervention, this much-needed book provides essential practical guidance and key reflections for researchers and students embarking on fieldwork in violent, repressive and closed contexts. Contributors provide explicit discussion of their mistakes and hard-learned lessons, raising important questions that intervention researchers need to consider before, during and after their research.Table of ContentsPART 1: CONTROL AND CONFUSION; The interview as a cultural performance and the value of surrendering control ~ Markus Göransson; Interpretivist methods and military intervention research: using interview research to de-centre the ‘intervener’ ~ Casey McNeill; Shifting identities, policy networks, and the ethical and practical challenges of gaining access to the field in interventions ~ Roland Kosti?; Being watched and being handled ~ Jesse Driscoll; Unequal research relationships in highly insecure places: of fear, funds and friendship ~ Morten Bøås; PART 2: SECURITY AND RISK; The politics of safe research in violent and illiberal contexts ~ Francesco Strazzari and Alessandra Russo; Challenges of research in an active conflict environment ~ Boukary Sangaré and Jamie Bleck; The politics and ethics of fieldwork in post-conflict environments: the dilemmas of a vocational approach ~ John Heathershaw and Parviz Mullojonov; On assessing risk assessments and situating security advice: the unsettling quest for ‘security expertise’ ~ Judith Verweijen; PART 3: DISTANCE AND CLOSENESS; Positioning in an insecure field: reflections on negotiating identity ~ Maria-Louise Clausen; A different form of intervention? Revisiting the role of researchers in post-war contexts ~ Daniela Lai; The road to Darfur: Ethical and practical challenges of embedded research in areas of open conflict ~ Mateja Peter; Interpretation by proxy? Interpretive fieldwork with local associates in areas of restricted research access ~ Katarina Kuši?; PART 4: SEX AND SENSITIVITY; Sex workers and sugar babies: empathetic engagement with vulnerable sources ~ Kathleen Jennings; Lifting the burden? The ethical implications of studying exemplary, not pathological, wartime sexual conduct ~ Angela Muvumba Sellström; Unexpected grey areas, innuendo and webs of complicity: experiences of researching sexual exploitation in UN peacekeeping missions ~ Henri Myrtinnen; Sexual exploitation, rape and abuse as a narrative and a strategy ~ Ingunn Bjørkhaug; CONCLUSIONS; Lessons for intervention fieldwork in violent and closed contacts ~ Berit Bliesemann de Guevara and Morten Bøås.

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Book SynopsisFrom the vantage point of forty years in social research and the study of families, Julia Brannen offers an invaluable account of how research is conducted and ‘matters’ at particular times. This fascinating work covers key developments in the field that remain of vital concern to society and demonstrates how social research is an art as well as a science – a process that involves craft and creativity.Trade Review''Well-known for the path-breaking methods and analytical sophistication of her work, Julia Brannen offers insightful reflections on a remarkable career in sociological research on families that are instructive and engaging.'' Graham Crow, University of Edinburgh"Brannen combines personal experience with a finely-tuned sensitivity to institutional dynamics to explain how social research is stimulated – and, just as often, constrained – by the broader political economy. A masterful reflection on the politics of knowledge creation." Rosanna Hertz, Wellesley College''This clearly written book charts, through the biographical account of a respected scholar of family life, the changing social, historical and political context of social science research in postwar UK.'' Julie Seymour, Hull York Medical SchoolTable of ContentsBeginnings and biography The research environment Mothers and the labour market Inside the household A generational lens on families and fathers Children and young people in families Families through the lens of food Life stories: Biographical and narrative analysis In conclusion

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Book SynopsisIntroduction chapter is available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. This groundbreaking reader is designed to lower the barriers to interdisciplinarity and transdisciplinarity in research. Edited by experienced researchers from a range of different fields, it paves the way for future scholarship and effective research collaborations across disciplines. Chapters offer extracts from key academic texts on topics such as the design, funding, evaluation and communication of research, providing those new to the field with a thorough grounding. They highlight examples of interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary triumphs – and challenges. Concluding each chapter is a commentary provided by practitioners from diverse backgrounds, many of whom are themselves developing new approaches to inter- and transdisciplinarity. The book is: • the first ever comprehensive reader for interdisciplinarity and transdisciplinarity; • essential reading for those seeking to become effective collaborative researchers; • complete with concise introductions, extracts, commentary and further reading in each chapter. This is a much-needed primer that improves our understanding of the characteristics of interdisciplinarity and transdisciplinarity, unlocking their exciting potential in research and teaching within and beyond academia.Table of ContentsForeword: Why Should We Care about Interdisciplinarity and Transdisciplinarity? - Jane Ohlmeyer Introductory Essay: Shaping Interdisciplinary and Transdisciplinary Research - Bianca Vienni-Baptista, Isabel Fletcher and Catherine Lyall 1. Understanding Interdisciplinary and Transdisciplinary Research 2. Developing Collaborative Conditions 3. Co-Creating a Research Project 4. Funding Collaborative Research 5. Evaluating Interdisciplinary and Transdisciplinary Research 6. Communicating Interdisciplinary and Transdisciplinary Research Findings 7. Improving Research Skills 8. Supporting Collaborative Researchers 9. Developing a Career in Interdisciplinary and Transdisciplinary Research Epilogue - Bianca Vienni-Baptista, Catherine Lyall and Isabel Fletcher

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Book SynopsisHow is UK drugs policy made, and why does it so often seem irrational when considering what works in reducing drug-related harms? This book explains how the concept of drug policy constellations – the loosely concerted policy actors with shared moral commitments that influenced policy outcomes – explains why there is no such thing as 'evidence-based' drug policy. Drawing on his participation in high-level policy discussions, and a novel approach to policy analysis, Stevens presents three recent cases involving key issues in UK illicit drug policy – medical cannabis, drug-related deaths and the government’s 10-year drug strategy.Table of Contents1. An Introduction to Drug Policy Constellations Part I: Contexts, Concepts and Methods for Studying Drug Policy Constellations 2. Facts and Narratives of the UK Drug Policy Context 3. Power and Morality in Policy Making 4. Policy Constellation: A Critical Realist Approach 5. Studying Policy Constellations in the Real World Part II: Morality and Power in UK Drug Policy Constellations 6. Moralities in Action: The Ethico-Political Bases of UK Drug Policy 7. Mapping UK Drug Policy Constellations 8. Power in UK Drug Policy Constellations Part III: Cases in Drug Policy Making in the UK 9. The Legalisation of Medical Cannabis 10. Responses to the Drug Deaths Crisis: Explaining Differences at UK and Scottish Levels 11. The UK’s Ten-Year Drug Strategy 12. A Retroductive Conclusion

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Book SynopsisThis book seeks to reflect the growing level of concern worldwide regarding the importance of ethical issues within the conduct of behavioral sciences research. Each chapter includes worldwide case studies of ethically controversial investigations which encourage students to more in-depth study.Trade Review"Kimmel provides a helpful overview of the historical and social contexts in which attention to human service ethics has long preceded attention to research ethics ... Appropriate for undergraduate and graduate students as well as faculty and professionals in social science programs." Choice "It is scholarly, fascinating, and very much up-to-date. I will certainly be using it in my teaching and in my research." Professor Robert Rosenthal, Harvard University "Faced with a daunting array of human subjects regulations and the expanding role of review boards, new investigators will find Kimmel's book an invaluable guide. Interspersed with a broad range of case studies, this book is both instructive and highly informative - a thoroughly captivating introduction to the ethics of research with human subjects in the 1990s and beyond." Professor Ralph L. Rosnow, Temple UniversityTable of ContentsList of Boxes. List of Tables. Foreword. Preface. Acknowledgments. 1. Introduction: Why Research Ethics?. 2. Ethical Principles in Behavioral Research: Professional and Governmental Guidelines. 3. Ethical Issues in the Conduct of Human Subject Research I: Laboratory Research. 4. Methodological Issues in the Use of Deception. 5. Ethical Issues in the Conduct of Human Subject Research II: Field Research. 6. Ethical Issues in the Conduct of Human Subject Research III: Applied Research. 7. Ethical Issues in the Recruitment and Selection of Research Subjects. 8. Ethical Issues in Research With Animals. 9. Ethical Review and the Communication of Results. Appendices. References. Indices.

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Book SynopsisThe chapters in this volume illustrate the ways in which U.S. sociologists of education continue to plumb the depths of fundamental questions about how schools are organized and consequences of school organization for students and teachers. These studies present new ideas and/or findings in an engaging way, and they attempt to enlarge the audience for sociological research on education. Perhaps even more importantly, however, they generate a host of questions that warrant sustained inquiry by our community. If these authors lead us to think in new ways or to ask new questions, their efforts will have been well-rewarded.Table of ContentsWhen the state innovates - interests and institutions create the preschool sector, Bruce Fuller and Susan D. Holloway; the university and political authority - historical trends and contemporary possibilities, Phyllis Riddle; world polity and gender parity - women's share of higher education, 1965-1985, Karen Bradley and Francisco O. Ramirez; carving a niche in the high school social structure - formal and informal constraints on participation in the extra curriculum, Pamela Anne Quiroz et al; race, gender and inequity in track assignments, Warren N. Kubitschek and Maureen T. Hallinan; evaluation processes and student disengagement from high school, Gary Natriello; academic press and sense of community - conflict and congruence in American high schools, Roger C. Shouse; the evolution of research on educational attainment and social status in Japan, Gerald LeTendre; exploring the persistence of academic achievement gaps - social differentials in family resource returns in Israel, Yechezkel Dar and Nura Resh; racial and ethnic variations in academic performance, Grace Kao et al; adolescent expectations and adult outcomes - insights from the study of migration, Margaret Mooney Marini.

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Book SynopsisVolume 1 of Research in Community Sociology focuses on "Community of the Streets".

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Book SynopsisThis annual publication is devoted to the advancement of ethics research and education in the profession and practice of accounting. It aims to advance innovative and applied ethics research in all accounting-related disciplines on a global basis and to improve ethics education in the field.Table of ContentsThe concept of trust and institutional development in auditing, Steven E. Kaplan and Robert G. Ruland; the relation between audit structure and public responsibility - audit firms propensity to qualify bankruptcy-related opinions, Joseph V. Carcello et al; commentary on auditors public responsibility, Jack C. Robertson; the relation between audit structure and public responsibility - audit firms propensity to quality bankruptcy-related opinions - a comment, J. Edward Ketz; toward an understanding of the philosophical foundations for ethical development of audit expert systems, Steve G. Sutton et al; comments on "Toward an understanding of the philosophical foundations for ethical development of audit expert systems", Jagdish S. Gangolly; further "Toward an understanding of the philosophical foundations for ethical development of audit expert systems", Jesse F. Dillard; on ethical behaviour in social, political, and legal environments, Steve G. Sutton et al; an international comparison of moral constructs underlying auditors ethical judgments, Jeffrey Cohen et al; an analysis of "An international comparison of moral constructs underlying auditors ethical judgments", Joseph J. Schultz, Jr.; comments on "An international comparison of moral constructs underlying auditors ethical judgments", W. Maorley Lemon; do expected audit procedures prompt more ethical behaviour? evidence on tax compliance rates, Wanda A. Wallace and Christopher Wolfe; discussion comments on "Do expected audit procedures prompt more ethical behaviour? evidence on tax compliance rates", Mary S. Doucet; commentary on the ethics of compliance with tax law and regulations, Andrew Baily; application of virtue ethics theory - management-employee whistle blowing, Don W. Finn; an exploratory study of accounting students professional attitudes - implications for accounting education, Patricia Casey et al; perceptions of senior auditors - ethical issues and factors affecting actions, Elizabeth M. Dreike and Cindy Moeckel. (Part contents)

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Book SynopsisThis is the first volume of an interdisciplinary publication, drawing on contemporary scholarship in such fields as speech communication, education, anthropology, sociology, history and English. Manuscripts focus on the intersection of interpretive critical theory, qualitative inquiry, culture, media, history, biography and social structure.Table of ContentsForeword - opening up cultural studies, Norman K. Denzin. Part 1 Sociology and cultural studies: relativizing sociology - the challenge of cultural studies, Steven Seidman; postmodernism, cultural studies and contemporary social inquiry, David R. Dickens; postponing the postmodern, Ben Agger. Part 2 Feminist discourse: anorexia nervosa - rereading the stories that became me, Paula Saukko; my story of anorexia nervosa - new discourses for change and recovery, Mary Walstrom; it's just a female thing, Lisa M. Sammiguel; what's wrong with this picture? comparing lived experience and textual representations of endometriosis, Lisa M. Sammiguel. Part 3 Race, popular culture and the media: race, suburban resentment and the representation of the inner city in contemporary film and television, Cameron McCarthy et al; look - it's the NBAs showtime - visions of race and popular imagery, Cheryl L. Cole and David L. Andrews; where have you gone, Joe DiMaggio? discourses of nation, family and masculinity in Dyersville, IA, Charles Fruehling Springwood; Oliver Stone's Vietnam trilogy - pseudo-realist narratives and male hegemony, Andrea Fontana and Claudia Collins; the new childhood - home alone as a way of life, Joe Kincheloe; the emergence of contemporary sport forms - paintball, Robert Rinehart. Part 4 Critical pedagogy and interventionist texts: mobilizing meaning, demobilizing critique? dilemmas in the deconstruction of educational discourse, Maggie Maclure and Ian Stronach; from a privileged position - teachers, research and popular culture, Chris Richards; death (an assemblage), Steven Wiley.

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Book SynopsisDemonstrates that the origins of capitalism & modernity can be found in the Middle AgesTrade Review"This small book, on a very big topic, makes a substantial contribution to the debates on which elements of European society were crucial to its later economic and military might.... One of the major assets of this book is that despite its brief length, it fully engages in comparisons of European history with developments in North Africa, China and south Asia.... Mielants has given us a deeply informed and important new twist on old arguments about the role of merchants and cities in the origins of capitalism. It is an argument that deserves attention and should provoke fruitful debates." —The British Journal of SociologyTable of Contents1: Perspectives on the Origins of Merchant Capitalism in Europe; 2: The Political Economies of China and Europe Compared; 3: The Political Economies of South Asia and Europe Compared (c. 1200-1500 AD); 4: The Political Economies of Western Europe and Northern Africa Compared; 5: Conclusion Was the Western-European City-State in the Middle Ages a European Miracle?

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