1. Transformative Learning -- Part I. Heuristics -- 2. Mining for Outliers in Qualitative Research to Develop Interviewing Strategies -- 3. Researching the Market Violence of Counterfeit Medicines: Insights from Qualitative Camp -- 4. Studying Processes in Organizations Lessons Learned from...

Part I. Problem identification -- 1. Overall research question -- 2. Transdisciplinary framework -- 3. Research architecture -- Part II. Problem analysis -- 4. Approach one: context perspective -- 5. Approach two: product perspective -- 6. Approach three: process perspective -- 7. Integration of...

Recently, political scientists have marshaled an impressive methodological discussion of political ethnography. However, this discussion has yielded little debate about the potential for an activist turn in political ethnography. In order to promote such a turn, this paper takes on four tasks....

Prison ethnographers have tended to downplay the epistemological and methodological dilemmas relating to identity and positionality, which have been more commonly rehearsed in anthropological and sociological ethnographies. This paper explores these issues through a reflexive interrogation of a...

The ethnographic research presented in this article was focused on a local solidarity institution, called OUSAM, founded in the 1980s in the ambit of a community development project promoted by a multidisciplinary team from the local Health Centre in a small rural municipality, Paredes de Coura,...

This article attempts to look at the role of various aspects of the issue - such as the distinction between invention and discovery, the question of patents over genes, and the non-recognition of indigenous knowledge about the use of medicinal plants that has led to pillaging of bio-resources...

The global sex panic around sex work and trafficking has fostered prostitution law reform worldwide. While the normative status of sex work remains deeply contested, abolitionists and sex work advocates alike display an unwavering faith in the power of criminal law; for abolitionists, strictly...