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Cheese in Chijnaya: Communal Entrepreneurship in Rural Peru
Get PDFIndividual entrepreneurship and social entrepreneurship may be more common both in daily life and in the research literature, but community- based entrepreneurship also plays an important role in economic development. We present a case study of community entrepreneurship in a rural area of the Andes, where the community of Chijnaya operates a successful cheese production business. Buying milk from its farmer members in the community, the business produces cheeses that are sold in regional urban markets and beyond. This account draws on decades of ethnographic research and collaboration with the community. Here, we discuss the history of the community in general and of the cheese enterprise in particular. The organizational structure of the business is outlined along with a description of the production processes. We end with an analysis of problems faced by the community in moving the enterprise forward toward a more profitable future and a discussion of the relevance of this case to entrepreneurship studies
Til forsvar for kvalitative intervju
Get PDFTo kritikker fra prominente sosiologer har de siste årene dratt i tvil nytten av kvalitative intervjudata for å si noe pålitelig om sosiale praksiser utenfor intervjusituasjonen. Den ene tar utgangspunkt i at folk ikke alltid handler slik de sier at de gjør, den andre kritikken i at folk ikke har diskursiv tilgang til sin praktiske kunnskap. Kritikkene impliserer at alt av intervjudata må behandles som fordreide av informantenes holdninger eller misoppfatninger. Kritikkene innebærer også en antakelse om at intervjudata ikke blir analysert med noen distanse til informantenes holdninger. Jeg mener at både implikasjonen og antakelsen er urimelige, og vil svare på dem med å dra fram tre teknikker som forskere som benytter seg av intervju ofte bruker: sammenligning, leting etter flere indikatorer og vurderinger av sammenheng med tidligere forskning. Ved blant annet å bruke disse teknikkene i analysen av intervjudata kan forskere dra valide konklusjoner også om forhold utenfor intervjusituasjonen.
ENGELSK ABSTRACT Eivind Grip Fjær: In defense of qualitative interviews In recent years several prominent sociologists have argued that qualitative interviews are inadequate for making valid claims about social practices outside of the interview situation. One critique is based on the distinction between what people do and what they say they do, another on theories arguing that people do not have discursive access to their practical knowledge. These critiques imply that researchers should treat all interview data as distorted by informants’ attitudes and misunderstandings. They also rest on the assumption that interview data analysis lacks distance to informants’ attitudes. I argue that both the implication and the assumption are unreasonable, and will reply to them by pointing to three techniques commonly applied by researchers who use interview data: comparison, search for multiple indicators, and evaluation of consistency with previous research. In part by using these techniques in their analysis of interview data, researchers are able to make valid claims about practices outside of the interview situation. Keywords: Interview, qualitative method, action, attitude
Towards a Global Partnership Network: Implications, Evolution and Prospects of China's Partnership Diplomacy
Get PDFIn the past 25 years, partnership diplomacy has gradually become an indispensable component in China's grand diplomacy strategy. Between 1993 and the end of 2017, China established more than 100 partnerships with the outside world. To better understand the evolution of China's strategy for diplomacy we need to know how these partnerships are formed and what motivates China to foster its partnership network. Although the importance of this strategy has been identified, the current literature does not yet include significant study of China's partnership network. This article attempts to fill this gap by assessing existing literature on partnership and government documents, interpreting the diversified labels and grades of partnerships, and analysing the network's evolution. It also attempts to estimate possible challenges facing China in the future expansion of its global partnership network. It argues that, although China intends to further extend its global influence and explore potential benefits through its partnerships, because of the challenges ahead its partnership network is still an aspiration rather than a realistic blueprint
The Wire and the Disenchantment of the Outsider
Get PDFThis article is a contextualist reading of the television serial The Wire (2002-2008). Drawing on Grace Hale’s A Nation of Outsiders (2011), this article examines the tension between how the paratexts of The Wire embrace an outsider rhetoric while the serial itself tries to dero-manticize the trope of the outsider. The article argues that the producers of the serial embrace an outsider rhetoric in an effort to gain legitimacy for themselves which is at odds with how the serial debunks the charisma of the outsider. This deromanticization of the outsider is an important part of the serial’s politics as this is a part of The Wire’s “sociological gaze.” The Wire is shown not to accept the notion of a free space beyond the restrictions of contemporary society that the romance of the outsider depends on
