Prospects and challenges of an indigenous development sociology : reflections on researching the Palestinian frontier / Imad Sayrafi.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ṣayrafī, ʻImād, author.

Series:

SAGE Research methods: diversifying and decolonizing research.

SAGE Research methods: diversifying and decolonizing research

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Actor-network theory--Palestine.

Actor-network theory.

Research--Methodology.

Research.

Applied sociology--Palestine.

Applied sociology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

London : SAGE Publications Ltd, 2024.

Summary:

This case study focuses on the challenges and prospects of an Indigenized actor-oriented approach to development sociology through reflecting on a research project carried out in the Palestinian village of Ni'lin. The case study describes the methodologic approach developed, how it was operationalized, and how it played out in the real research setting with a pedagogic focus. The case study offers insights into the challenges and special considerations of carrying out research in volatile political settings and in settings of ongoing colonial encounters. It offers depictions of the central dimensions of navigating fieldwork in such a setting, in addition to the importance of anticolonial foundations of methodologic approaches and how they trickle down to the various components of research. This entails critical engagement with the politics and ethics of research and knowledge as ways in which knowledge is enriched toward the diversity of human experience.

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ISBN:

1-5296-9128-1

9781529691283

OCLC:

1428170080