Integrating reflexivity into livelihoods research

Martin Prowse
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Martin Prowse: Institute of Development Policy and Management (IOB), University of Antwerp, Antwerpen, Belgium

Progress in Development Studies, 2010, vol. 10, issue 3, 211-231

Abstract: Much development research is not explicit about its methodology or philosophical foundations. Based on the extended case method of Burawoy and the philosophy of critical realism, this article discusses a methodological approach for reflexive livelihoods research that overcomes the unproductive social science dualism of positivism and social constructivism. The approach is linked to a livelihoods framework, and a sequence of research methods that can be iterated in light of research questions.

Keywords: methodology; epistemology; ontology; livelihoods; research methods (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010
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DOI: 10.1177/146499340901000302

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