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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"extended case method"”.
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International, National, and Local Notions of the Public Library: An extended case study in Namibia
… world. I used a sociological approach and the Extended Case Method (Burawoy, 1991; 1998). Two theories framed the research: World Society Theory (Meyer et al. 1997) and New Institutional Theory (Powell and DiMaggio, 1991). World Society Theory was developed from evidence of similarities in …
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Between Facebook and Boas: Kichwa Indigenous Identity in Alto Napo and Challenges to Multiculturalism in Ecuador
… concept of symbolic capital. Following an extended-case method, I analyze the articulation of <em>indigenousness</em> (as an idealized expression of tradition) vis-à-vis the power relationships of the actors involved in such process. A combination between participant observation, daily …
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Workers Out of Control: Recuperations, Reverberations and Communalism from Argentina to Greece
… interviews and observations with a slow ethnomethodology inspired by the principles of the Extended Case Method, yet with a ‘storyteller’ attitude. From this participatory investigation I could co-theorise the concepts the workers themselves prefigured through their praxes. Starting from an …
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Ecologies of digital mapping: Open source communities and grassroots maps
… actionable data archives. The project is a multi-method qualitative approach employing archaeological analysis, Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA), and participant observation to study three communities: Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT), OpenStreetMap (OSM), and Public Lab. While Habermas’ …
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The world is broken: Expanding frame-alignment theory with campus ministries
Employing an extended case method ethnography combined with in-depth interviews and content analysis, this project approaches two university-level chapters of campus ministries, Cru and InterVarsity Christian Fellowship, as social movement organizations (SMOs) representing the US evangelical …
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The right to work and rights in the workplace: securing the socio-economic rights of foreign migrant workers in the construction sector in Cape Town
… labour migration policy for Cosatu. The research methodology applied was principally the extended case method along with Orunmila epistemology to help make sense of the data. My research shows that while trade unions have an obligation to help migrants realise their rights to work and rights in …
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Utopian thinking in higher education and its relationship with social movements: Reshaping societal roles to build alternative worlds
… value of utopia as a pedagogical process and a method for exploring possibilities through an academic lens, marrying hope with education, as expounded by Bloch (1996) and advocated by Freire (2005). Methodologically, this research applies a critical realist approach, emphasising reflective …
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The Role of ICTs in Social Movements: The Case of the Honduran National Front Against the 2009 Coup
… sense-making processes. </p> <p>I explore the case of the Honduran National Front Against the Coup (NFAC), a relevant case due to its similarities with other movements, like the use of social media, the support from the international community and its geographically dispersed networks; but …
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The community informatics of an aging society: a comparative case study of senior centers and public libraries
… human lifecourse (Hutchison, 2014). Using the extended case method approach (Burawoy, 1998), these three theories are scrutinized in relation to the empirical reality I studied. Through this situated understanding (Suchman, 1987), this dissertation contributes to the development of these …
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Rivers of Resistance: Aid, Activism and Energy in Cambodia and Myanmar
… in both countries. This is illuminated through case studies examining opposition to dams and the contestation of hydropower hegemony, an analytical framing where dams are a microcosm for understanding competing visions for development in both countries. Through two main case studies in each …