Syllabus

Books

• Booth, Wayne C., Gregory G Colomb, and Joseph Williams (2008) The Craft of Research. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press.
• Gee, James Paul (1999). An Introduction to Discourse Analysis. Theory and method. Second edt 2005, Oxon: Routledge. Available in the Arne Næss library 
• 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
• 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. (These readings belongs to Karens first lecture in August)
• 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

You must be logged on via the University of Oslo server in order to access the following articles.

• 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.
• 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.
• 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. (For Karens lecture in August)
• Overton, John and van Diermen, Peter.(2003) "Quantitative Techniques", Chapter 3 in Development Fieldwork, a Practical Guide (eds: Scheyvens, Regina and Donovan Storey), SAGE. (Available in Fronter)
• 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.