Evaluate in writing the ethical reflections in Bedi 2016.
• Bedi, Tarini, 2016: The dashing ladies of Shiv Sena. Political matronage in urbanizing India. SUNY Press.
Review in writing the research ethics of Tarini Bedi’s “Dashing Ladies” (2016) using the criteria of the readings attached. You do not have to read the book first page to last; selecting what to read in detail and what to skim is a key skill here.
Briefly summarize the methodology used by Bedi and make the criteria explicit at the outset, followed by a discussions of the strengths and weaknesses of Bedi implementation of case study methodology and concluding with a summary judgment.
APPLY THE FOLLOWING CORE READING:
• Desai, Vandana and Potter, Robert B, 2006: Doing development research.
AND AT LEAST TWO OF THE FOLLOWING READINGS:
• Almond, Gabriel A and Genco, Stephen J, 1977: Clouds, clocks, and the study of politics. World Politics 29(4).
• Trainor, Audrey A and Graue, Elizabeth (eds), 2013: Reviewing qualitative research in the social sciences. Routledge.
• Becker, Howard, 1998: Tricks of the trade. Chicago University Press. (chapters 1-2; not essential if you cannot get hold of it)
• Law, John, 2003: Making a mess with method. On-Line Papers Series, Centre for Science Studies, Lancaster University.
• Hammersley, Martyn and Atkinson, Paul, 2007: Ethnography. Routledge.
• Small, Mario Luis, 2009: On science and the logic of case selection in field-based research. Ethnography 10(1)
It needs to be briefly summarize the methodology used by Bedi and make the criteria explicit at the outset, followed by a discussions of the strengths and weaknesses of Evan’s implementation of case study methodology and concluding with a summary judgment.
It is recommended to read the introduction and especially methodology section, and then a little bit in the middle to see how the promised methodology is actually implemented – and that should then give enough of an idea to form a judgment on Evan’s use of case studies.
It needs to be evaluated/analized/critized also Bedi’s research method.
How did she justified the decisions she made for case selections.
It is a peer review, that’s why it needs to be use the material attached related to methodology/case studies. (Hammersley, Law, Small, etc.).
