Brainstorming, Modified Logframes and the Conversion of Research Hypotheses into Field Questions

Reflections from Team‐based Fieldwork in Eastern India

Bibliographic Data

ID20153430
AuthorsStuart Corbridge (University of Miami), Glyn Williams (0000-0003-0293-5574, University of London), M Srivastava (0000-0002-1035-8220, London School of Economics and Political Science), R Véron (0000-0001-6829-5712, University of Guelph)
Year2003
Volume24
Issue2
Pages242-257
Publication date2003-07-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueSingapore Journal of Tropical Geography (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0129-7619 • E-ISSN: 1467-9493
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/1467-9493.00155
OpenAlexW1571616697
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited10

This paper considers some practical problems associated with organising large‐scale comparative field research in eastern India. The focus of the paper is on the use of brainstorming and “modified logframes” as two means by which hypotheses about the working of the local state from the point of view of the rural poor could be turned into concrete field questions. The paper is less concerned with ethical and positional issues relating to team‐based research in “the tropics” (on this, see Williams et al., 2003a) than with the equally important if apparently more prosaic issues relating to the flawed but necessary search for objectivity and rigour in comparative field studies

Brainstorming · Epistemology · Field (mathematics) · Field research · Objectivity (philosophy) · Rigour · Social science · Sociology · Artificial Intelligence · Cambodian History and Society · Computer Science · Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management · Mathematics · Philosophy · Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies

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