Case study at the nexus of the global and the local

Adriana Nunez-Picado and Kirsten Martinus

Chapter 17 in Handbook of Case Study Research in the Social Sciences, 2024, pp 310-329 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: Social science research engages with an increasingly globally integrated and complex world, where human behaviour and settlements shape and are shaped by an individual’s immediate local environment and more distant environments of global influence. The nexus of the global and the local offers a way of thinking about complex social phenomena where individual interactions in local places are related to multiple, and often distant, real-life locations and global contexts. Purposefully selected case studies are particularly useful in investigating such phenomena. This chapter examines the difficulties in case study research where there are both local and global components. We outline three main approaches used in the social sciences to capture the complexity of such social phenomena: spatial, relational and practice/process-based. We unpack each in a case study of Australian junior miner operations in Latin America. We conclude by focusing on the advantages of combining approaches, before giving considerations and limitations.

Keywords: Asian Studies; Business and Management; Development Studies; Economics and Finance; Education; Environment; Geography; Innovations and Technology; Law - Academic; Politics and Public Policy Research Methods; Sociology and Social Policy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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