Methodological Challenges in Nature-Culture and Environmental History Research

Methodological Challenges in Nature-Culture and Environmental History Research
Author: Jocelyn Thorpe
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 495
Release: 2016-11-10
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1317353560

This book examines the challenges and possibilities of conducting cultural environmental history research today. Disciplinary commitments certainly influence the questions scholars ask and the ways they seek out answers, but some methodological challenges go beyond the boundaries of any one discipline. The book examines: how to account for the fact that humans are not the only actors in history yet dominate archival records; how to attend to the non-visual senses when traditional sources offer only a two-dimensional, non-sensory version of the past; how to decolonize research in and beyond the archives; and how effectively to use sources and means of communication made available in the digital age. This book will be a valuable resource for those interested in environmental history and politics, sustainable development and historical geography.

Methodical Bible Study

Methodical Bible Study
Author: Robert A. Traina
Publisher: Zondervan
Total Pages: 292
Release: 2002
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9780310246022

This inductive study in a simple, practical textbook in hermeneutics compares related Bible texts in order to let the Bible interpret itself.

Fighting As Real As It Gets

Fighting As Real As It Gets
Author: Michael Staack
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 217
Release: 2019-07-25
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 3476049914

Michael Staack’s multi-year ethnography is the first and only comprehensive social-scientific analysis of the combat sport ‘Mixed Martial Arts’. Based on systematic training observations, the author meticulously analyses how Mixed Martial Arts practitioners conjointly create and immerse themselves into their own world of ultimate bodily combat. With his examination of concentrative technique demonstrations, cooperative technique train-ings, and chaotic sparring practices, Staack not only provides a sociological illumination of Mixed Martial Arts culture’s defining theme – the quest of ‘Fighting As Real As It Gets’. Rather further-more, he provides a compelling cultural-sociological case study on practical social constructions of ‘authenticity’.

Handbook of Methodological Approaches to Community-based Research

Handbook of Methodological Approaches to Community-based Research
Author: Leonard Jason
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 409
Release: 2016
Genre: Education
ISBN: 0190243651

The Handbook of Methodological Approaches to Community-Based Research is intended to aid the community-oriented researcher in learning about and applying cutting-edge quantitative, qualitative, and mixed methods approaches.

Exploring Human Nature

Exploring Human Nature
Author: Jana Lemke
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2018
Genre: Human beings
ISBN: 9789088905599

This work presents a reflexive mixed methods study of young adults' experiences of solo time in the wilderness and the impact on these individuals' attitudes and values in the face of global change.

Doing Q Methodological Research

Doing Q Methodological Research
Author: Simon Watts
Publisher: SAGE
Total Pages: 251
Release: 2012-04-04
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1849204152

This book introduces the theory and practice of Q methodology. The authors explain the origins of Q methodology in factor analysis and the R methodological procedures, and go on to explain the theory behind Q as set out by the method's early pioneers. They also look at how Q deals with issues such as subjectivity, abduction and constructivism. The book shows readers how to set up, run, and analyze an effective study using Q methodology. Illustrated with examples and case studies throughout, the book offers advice on highly practical issues such as the conduct of fieldwork, working with participants, and good data management.