Timeplan 2023 Vår - lærer Zerihun Woldeselassie - Førstelektor
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Formulating research questions and choosing methods
Required Readings:
*T* Bryman, A. (2012) Social Research Methods. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780199588053
Chapter 1: “The Nature and Process of Social Research”, (pp.3-17)
Chapter 4: “Planning a Research Project and Formulating Research Questions” (82-93)
Chapter 6: “Ethics and politics in social research” (129-154).
Situating qualitative methods in the social sciences and Peace & Conflict Research
Required Readings:
*T* Bryman. A., (2012) “The nature of qualitative research” in Social Research Methods. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780199588053 Chapter 17 pp. 379 -414 (35pp) *T*
*E* Mottier, V. (2005) “The Interpretive Turn: History, Memory, and Storage in Qualitative Research” Forum: Qualitative Research, 6: 2 (7pp)
*E* Cooper, R., Finley, L. “Peace and Conflict Studies Research : A Qualitative Perspective” in Cooper, R., Finley, L. (ed) Peace and Conflict Studies Research: A Qualitative Perspective. Charlotte, NC: Information Age Publishing. Chapter 1 pp. 1-22.
*E* Njeri, S. (2020) “Race, Positionality and the Researcher” in Mac Ginty, R., Brett, R. and Vogel, B. (eds) The companion to peace and conflict fieldwork. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan.
*E* Hume, M. (2020) “Secrecy and Silence in Fieldwork: Reflections on Feminist Research on Violence in Latin America” in Mac Ginty, R., Brett, R. and Vogel, B. (eds) The companion to peace and conflict fieldwork. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan. Chapter 21
Ethnography, participant observation
Required Readings
*E* Avruch, K. (2001) “Notes Toward Ethnographies of Conflict and Violence”. In, Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, Vol. 30. No.5, Pp. 637-648.
*C* Bryman, A. (ed) (2001) “A Review of Ethnography.” In, Bryman, Alan. Ethnography: Vol. I- PP. IX-XXXIX, ISBN0-7619-7091-6. SAGE Publication Ltd.
*E* Madison, D. Soyini, (2012/2005) Chapter I: Introduction to Critical Ethnography: Theory and Method. In Critical Ethnography: Method, Ethics, and Performance. SAGE. PP. 1-18
*E* Millar, G. (2018). Engaging Ethnographic Peace Research: Exploring an Approach. International Peacekeeping, 25(5), 597-609.
*E* Woldeselassie, Zerihun (2019) "Researching ethnicity and ethnic politics using a single case study method": In SAGE Research Methods Cases. ISBN: 9781526473011