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http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dsp01v118rh35t| Title: | Readings in Methodology : African Perspectives |
| Contributors: | Ouédraogo, Jean-Bernard Cardoso, Carlos |
| Keywords: | Africa Methodology Ethnography Sociology Fieldwork Morocco |
| Issue Date: | 2011 |
| Publisher: | CODESRIA (Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa) |
| Place of Publication: | Dakar, Senegal |
| Series/Report no.: | CODESRIA book series |
| Description: | The texts included in this volume have the sole objective of enabling readers to consider with critical distance scientific commitment which suffers from a sterile utilitarianism often corrupting the creativity of researchers in the African context. It would seem that we should now suggest a break with the dominant doxa which, supported in this undertaking by developmentalists, refused to allow African researchers free rein in abstraction and requires them to occupy the thankless place of data purveyors in a global division of intellectual work where the spot favorable to the accumulation of symbolic benefits of recognition is forbidden to them. How can we construct a science, monitor its practices and formulate theories on which it should thrive without mastering the epistemological prerequisites and thereby daring to offer a measured contextualization of its results? This volume is an incentive for a critical look back on social science as it is practiced in contemporary Africa. The intention of the authors of this volume will have been diverted if after the reading of these texts it does not clearly appear that “methodology is not the private tutor or guardian of the scholar, but always his student.” |
| URI: | http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dsp01v118rh35t |
| ISSN: | 978-2-86978-483-3 |
| Related resource: | http://www.codesria.org |
| Appears in Collections: | Serials and series reports (Publicly Accessible) - CODESRIA |
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| 0-Prelim_Readings_in_Methodology.pdf | 221.89 kB | Adobe PDF | View/Download | |
| 1-Nkolo_Foe_Readings_in_Methodology.pdf | 134.75 kB | Adobe PDF | View/Download | |
| 2-Ouedraogo_Bouda_Readings_in_Methodology.pdf | 155.42 kB | Adobe PDF | View/Download | |
| 3-Gueye_Readings_in_Methodology.pdf | 217.36 kB | Adobe PDF | View/Download | |
| 4-Bouda_Readings_in_Methodology.pdf | 123.49 kB | Adobe PDF | View/Download | |
| 5-Akissi_Readings_in_Methodology.pdf | 130.7 kB | Adobe PDF | View/Download | |
| 6-Mbah_Readings_in_Methodology.pdf | 168.57 kB | Adobe PDF | View/Download | |
| 7-El-Maliki_Readings_in_Methodology.pdf | 126.27 kB | Adobe PDF | View/Download | |
| 8-Achieng_Readings_in_Methodology.pdf | 110.15 kB | Adobe PDF | View/Download | |
| 9-El_Harras_Readings_in_Methodology.pdf | 135.2 kB | Adobe PDF | View/Download | |
| 10-Carvalho_Readings_in_Methodology.pdf | 118.75 kB | Adobe PDF | View/Download | |
| 11-Attane_Readings_in_Methodology.pdf | 3.44 MB | Adobe PDF | View/Download | |
| 12-Vigour_Readings_in_Methodology.pdf | 212.46 kB | Adobe PDF | View/Download | |
| 13-Bidet_Readings_in_Methodology-2.pdf | 182.51 kB | Adobe PDF | View/Download |
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