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Whether you are an urban geographer, an urban sociologist or an urban political scientist, and whether you take a qualitative, quantitative or mixed methods approach, the challenge that confronts researchers of our increasingly “globalized” urban studies remains fundamentally the same–how to make sense of urban complexity. This book confronts this challenge by exploring the various methodological approaches for doing global urban research, including Comparative Urbanism, Social Network Analysis, and Data Visualization. With contributions from leading scholars across the world, Doing Global Urban Research offers a key forum to discuss how the practice of research can deepen our knowledge of globalized urbanization.
Comparative Ethnographic Urban Research
Comparative Ethnographic Urban Research
Why do comparative ethnographic urban research?
As recently as only a decade ago readers of a volume such as this would likely have been surprised to see ethnographic approaches proffered as means of doing urban research that is either global or comparative. Ethnography has conventionally connoted in-depth, human-centred study of cultural groups, communities and institutions in more-or-less bounded localities. As such, while ethnographic work has long been recognized as yielding richly textured accounts of people-in-places, it has equally been criticized for failing to generate findings that can be compared meaningfully with other studies (Jackson, 1985). The foundational urban ethnographies of the Chicago School of sociology were determinedly microscale, ahistorical and atheoretical – and those three traits arguably ...
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