This energetic and thought-provoking book encourages a reflexive, non-nationalistic approach to doing world research and sets out how to understand, plan, do and use this research.
Williams introduces a range of frameworks, from desk-based studies and traditional ethnography to the use of internet, satellites, robots, drones and ‘big data’, and provides exciting, interdisciplinary examples. This book is presented in a clear international style and uses creative approaches to researching peoples, places and world systems.
It explains:
desk-based research using international data including documentaries, museum objects, archives, data-sets and working with groups such as refugees, tourists and migrants
distance research using online videos, surveys and remote methods such as video conferencing and crowdsourcing
fieldwork abroad, including ethnography, street observation and mapping.
The book is also accompanied by a website, with the following features:
For Students
Weblinks for each chapter
Examples/summaries/templates related to text marked with
Additional thinking zones
An overview of data capture technologies
For Lecturers
Copies of all the figures and thinking zones for use in teaching material
PowerPoint slides for each chapter
Built upon the foundations of the author’s 30 years of research experience, and including original case studies from international students, this is an essential guide for anyone in the social sciences using or doing international and global research.