Syllabus

Books

• Booth, Wayne C., Gregory G Colomb, and Joseph Williams (2008) The Craft of Research. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press.

• McCloskey, Deirdre N. (1999) Economical Writing. Second edt. (2008). Illinois: Waveland Press, Inc.

• Moses, Jonathon W. and Torbjørn L. Knutsen  (2007) Ways of Knowing: Competing Methodologies in Social and Political Research. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan
• Stuart, Alex (1998) The Ethnographer's Method. London: Sage.

Compendium

The following articles are available in a compendium that you can buy in the Kopiutsalg at Akademika bookshop, Blindern. Bring Student ID Card.

• Bertaux, Daniel (1981) “From the Life-History Approach to the Transformation of Sociological Practice”, in Biography and Society: The Life History Approach in the Social Sciences. London: Sage, pp. 29-45.
• Bruner, Jeremy  1990 “Acts of Meaning”, Cambridge: Harvard University Press, pp. 1-32
• Fludernik, Monika (2009) An Introduction to Narratology. Routledge: London and New York, pp. 1-20
• Foss, Sonja K. (1996), “Rhetorical Criticism: Exploration and Practice”, Long Grove: Waveland Press, pp. 3-33, 63-7, 121-32, 165-74, 225-37, 291-299, 357-67, 399-408, 455-63 and 483-88.
• Geertz, Clifford (1973), Ch. 1 “Thick Description: Toward an Interpretive Theory of Culture”and Ch. 15 “Deep Play: Notes on the Balinese Cockfight, ” in The Interpretation of Cultures. New York: Basic Books, pp. 3-32 + 412-453. Chapter 1 is available in Fronter and 15 is available online for those who are not able to buy the compendium before the first lecture.
• Lothe, Jacob. 2005. Narrative in Fiction and Film: An Introduction. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 11-48.
• Lotman, Yuri (1990) “Semiotic Space” + “The Notion of Boundary,” in Universe of the Mind: A Semiotic Theory of Culture. New York: I.B.Tauris & Co., pp. 123-142.
• Witoszek, Nina (2012) “Enemies of Sustainability? The Empire of Vogue” in Bjørkdahl, K and K. Nielsen (eds.) Development and Environment: Practices, Theories, Policies (2012) Oslo: Unipub (NB! Available in the SUM4200 Compendium)

Online articles

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• Aberbach, Joel D. and Bert A. Rockman (2002) “Conducting and Coding Elite Interviews,” in PS: Political Science and Politics, 35(4), pp. 673-676.
• Aguilar-Støen, M.  et al. (2009) "Home Gardens Sustain Crop Diversity and Improve Farm Resilience in Candelaria Loxicha, Oaxaca, Mexico",  in Human Ecology, Vol. 37, No. 1 (February 2009) , pp. 55-77
• Alex, Lena and Anne Hammarström (2008) "Shift in Power during an interview situation: methodological reflections inspired by Foucault and Bordieu" in Nursing Inquiry 15(2), pp. 169 - 176.
• Berry, Jeffrey (2002) “Validity and Reliability Issues in Elite Research,” PS: Political Science and Politics, 35(4), pp. 679-682.
• Chakrabarty, Dipesh (2009), "The Climate of History: Four Theses”, Critical Inquiry 35, The University of Chicago.
• Dexter, Lewis Anthony (2006) “New introduction” + “Chapter 1, Introduction,” in Elites and Specialized Interviewing. Colchester: ECPR Press/Northwestern University, pp. 1-31.
• Fukuda-Parr, S., Alicia Ely Yamin and Joshua Greenstein (2013). "The Power of Numbers: A Critical Review of MDG Targets for Human Development and Human Rights", Working Paper Series
• Hale, Charles R. (2001) "What is Activist Research?" Social Science Research Council Vol. 2, No. 1-2, pp.13-15.
• Hale, Charles R (ed). (2008) "Introduction"  in Engaging Contradictions. Theory, Politics and Methods of Activist Scholarship, pp. 1-27. Berkeley: University of California Press.
• Kezar, Adrianna (2003) “Transformational Elite Interviews: Principles and Problems,” Qualitative Inquiry, 9, pp. 395-415.
• Löfgren, Orvar (1990) “The Danger of Knowing What You Are Looking For,” in Ethnologia Scandinavica, 20, pp. 3-15.
• Marcus, George E. (1995) “Ethnography in/of the World System: The Emergence of Multi-Sited Ethnography”, in Annual Review of Anthropology, 24, pp. 95-117.
• McNeill, Desmond  (2000) "Statistics—the Development Researcher's Guilty Secret", Forum for Development Studies, 27:1, 145-150
• Ortner, Sherry (1973) “On Key Symbols,”in American Anthropologist, 75(5), pp. 1338-1346.
• Peluso, Nancy Lee (1995) "Whose Woods Are These? Counter-mapping Forest Territories in Kalimantan, Indonesia", Antipode 27:4, 1995, pp. 383-406.
• Richard, David O. (1996) “Elite Interviewing: Approaches and Pitfalls,” Politics, 16(3), pp. 199-204.
• Rorty, Richard (1991) “Texts and Lumps,”in New Literary History, 39(1), pp. 53-68.
• Schmook, Birgit and Radel, Claudia (2008) “International Labor Migration from a Tropical Development Frontier: Globalizing Households and an Incipient Forest Transition Hum Ecol  36:891–908
• Smith, Derek A. (2003) "Participatory Mapping of Community Lands and Hunting Yields among the Bugle of Western Panama", Human Organization; Winter 2003; 62, 4; ProQuest Psychology Journals, pp. 332
• Syse, Karen (2001) “Ethics in the Woods,” in Ethics, Place & Environment: A Journal of Philosophy & Geography, 4(3), pp. 226-234.
• Syse, Karen (2013) “Otters as Symbols in the British Environmental Discourse” in Landscape Research, 38:4, 540-552
• United Nations Economic Commission For Europe (2009) “Making Data Meaningful. Part 2: A guide to presenting statistics”, ECE/CES/STAT/NONE/2009/3, pp. 7-29
• The University of Reading Statistical Services Centre Resources/curriculum (2000) Informative Presentation of Tables, Graphs and Statistics
• Wilhite, H., H. Nakagami, T. Masuda, Y. Yamaga and H. Haneda. (1996) “A Cross-Cultural Analysis of Household Energy Use Behaviour in Japan and Norway,” in Energy Policy, 24(9), pp. 795-803.