Fieldwork in Transforming Societies: Understanding Methodology from Experience

✍ Scribed by Ed Clark, Snejina Michailova (eds.)

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Year: 2004
Tongue: English
Leaves: 207
Category: Library

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✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-x
Doing Research in Transforming Contexts: Themes and Challenges....Pages 1-18
Identities, Roles and Qualitative Research in Central and Eastern Europe....Pages 19-38
Who is Observing Whom? Fieldwork Roles and Ambiguities in Organisational Case Study Research....Pages 39-56
Uncovering the Communist and Capitalist Shadow: Developing Relational Forms of Inquiry and Writing....Pages 57-77
Constructing Enterprise Level Knowledge: Exploratory Methods and Transforming Contexts....Pages 78-96
Researching Organisations in Hungary: Practical Experience and Methodological Reflections....Pages 97-113
Transformation Research in East Germany: Institutions, Knowledge and Power....Pages 114-135
Behind the Bamboo Curtain: Problems and Pitfalls in Researching Australian Expatriates in China....Pages 136-156
Fieldwork in a Low-Trust (Post-)Communist Society....Pages 157-176
Back Matter....Pages 177-196

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