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Amadiume, Ifi. (1993): The mouth theat spoke falsehood will later speak the truth: going
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Barahona, Carlos & Levy, Sarha (2005): The Best of Both Worlds: Producing National
Statistics using Participatory methods. Q-Squared Working paper No.11 October 2005
Bat-Ami Bar On (1993): “Marginality and Epistemic Privilege”
Feminist Epistemologies, Eds. Linda Alcoff and Elisabeth Potter, Routledge (p. 83-100)
Bergen, Raquel Kennedy: 1993. Interviewing survivors of marital rape. Doing feminist
research on sensitive topics. In Renzetti, Claire and Lee, Raymond. Researching sensitive
topics. London:Sage,197-211
Caplan, Pat (1993): learning gender: fieldwork in a Tanzanian coastal village 1965-85.
In Bell, D. Caplan, P and Karim, W.J. Gendered fields. Women, men and ethnography.
p. 168-181 London: Routledge (p. 168-181)
Chalmers, A.F. (1999): What is this thing called science? Buckingham: Open University
Press (3rd ed). Selected chapters
Davies, Charlotte Aull (1999): Reflexive Ethnography: A Guide to Researching Selves
and Others. London and New York: Routledge. (Chapter 3: Ethics and Politics, p. 45-64)
Durkheim, Emile (1994): Social Facts, Readings in the Philosophy of Social Science
(eds. Martin and Macintyre), MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass. and London (p. 433-440)
Geertz, Clifford (1973): The Interpretations of culture.
(Chapter 1: Thick description: Toward an Interpretive theory of Culture, p. 3-31)
Giddens, Anthony (1982): Profiles and Critiques in Social theory. London: Macmillian
Press, (Chapter 1: Hermeneutics and Social theory, p. 1-18)
Hammersley, Martyn (1995): The Politics of Social Research. London: Sage/OUP.
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Haraway, Donna J. (1991): Simian, Cyborgs, and Women. The Reinvention of Nature.
Free Association Books, London (Chapter 9: Situated Knowledges: The Science
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Hentschel, Jesko (2005): Intergrating the qual and the quan: When and why? In Kanbur,
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Howe, Gerard (2005): Combining Qualitative and Quantitative methods in Assessing
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Kanbur, Ravi (2005): Q-Squared – Qualitative and Quantitative Poverty Appraisal: The
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Lal, Jayati (1996): Situating Locations: The politics of Self, Identity and “other” in
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Lee, Raymond and Renzetti, Claire (1993 The problem of researching sensitive topics.
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Lukes, Steven (1994): Methodological Individualism Revisited, Readings in the
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Punch, Maurice (1986): The Politics and Ethics of Fieldwork. Qualitative Research
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Rager, Kathleen B. (2005): Compassion Stress and the Qualitative Researcher,
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Silverman, David. 2000: Doing Qualitative Research. A practical Handbook. Sage
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Stacey, Judith (1993): Can there be a feminist ethnography? In Mc.Dowell, Linda and
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Yearley, Steven (2005) “Knowledge and Social interests” (p. 41-54) and “ActorNetworks in Science” (p. 55-68). In Making Sense of Science: Understanding the Social
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Wax, Murray L. (1980): Paradoxes of ‘Consent’ to the Practice of Fieldwork,
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