Qualitative Comparative Analysis

Finding the status of development of an area is an important way to assess the changes in society and development. For this, a multivariate approach was employed using parameters on education, health and transportation. Assimilating these variables after normalization the Maziotta Pareto Index has been used to find the ranking of blocks of the Indian Sundarban with respect to these indicators of development for 2003 and 2013. Maziotta Pareto Index is an adequate measure of development and starts from a linear aggregation and introduces penalties for the geographical areas with 'unbalanced' values of the indicators. Physiographically, the region is a deltaic plain, having an intricate network of creeks and is annually ravaged by the natural hazards, e.g., Bay Depressions. The inhabitants of Sundarban are primarily involved in agriculture (monocropping due to increased salinity), aquaculture and collection of non timber forest products and thus do not have adequate income to support their families. The current article employs this technique along with questionnaire surveys in selected sites of the study area to assess the changes in socioeconomic development of the Indian Sundarban.

This journal was the first of its kind at Vidyasagar University when I joined in the first week of December 1985. We thought of a social science journal and pledged to fight against overspecialisation. Dr.Tarun Kumar Banerjee(Political Science) was the main thinker and worker towards its publication. Dr.Ambarish Mukherjee(Political Science), Dr.Samkar Bhowmick(Economics) and I from Anthropology formed the nucleus of this effort. Our other aim was to focus on the district of erstwhile Medinipur, its society, economy and politics. Interestingly, all the three of us were not the 'son of the soil' but were dedicated to the ideals of Vidyasagar University as championed by the founder of our university Professor Anil Kumar Gayen, a Cambridge Ph.D and of course a true 'son of the soil' about whom we came to know much later and unknowingly we propagated the cause of the founder's mission.https://www.academia.edu/2581992/A_forgotten_founder_of_a_university_._Frontier_Vol._45_No._9_2012_pp._11-13 This journal did not continue and interdisciplinary research at Vidyasagar University in the social sciences did not flourish except in some individual remarkable research.

ADRRI JOURNAL OF ARTS AND SOCIAL SCIENCES, 2022

Violent conflicts, besides their immediate effects, have long-term negative effects on food crop production in conflict-ripped communities. However, in Ghana, this is poorly understood and have not received the needed attention in both academic and policy circles. This paper discusses the legacy of the 1994/95 Kokomba-Nanumba conflict on food crop production in Nakpayili. A combined 52 respondents were selected in a mixed study design using purposive and quota sampling techniques. Interviews were used as the main primary data collection method. The study revealed that food crop production is low (27.6%) as compared to the periods before the conflict (68.1%). This situation is attributed to intermittent clashes and burning of farms (42.6%), migration (25.5%), erratic rainfall (25.5%), high cost of farm inputs (12.8%), bushfires (10.6%) and high cost of labour (14.9%). The paper recommends that the government and other development agencies should provide the people of Nakpayili with dams, agriculture inputs and other forms of technical assistance to help improve the level of food crop production. Besides, allinclusive negotiating groups should be established in the various communities to help facilitate constant dialogue and peaceful resolution of conflicts.

Land Grabbing in Cameroon: Implications to the Economic and Socio-Cultural Rights of the Local Communities, 2021

ABSTRACT Land, its appurtenant resources and rights thereto attached are high stake issues for the enjoyment of economic and socio-cultural rights (ESCR) in any given society. The objective of this article is to demonstrate that the Cameroonian land tenure system incentivizes land grabs and ensuing disputes, constituting impediments to the ESCR of local communities. The paper argues that “land grabs” and ensuing disputes which are incentivized by the Cameroonian land tenure system, directly affect the ESCR of local communities. Using the genealogical, doctrinal and the analytical methodological approaches in the treatment of primary and secondary data, the article assesses the Cameroonian land tenure system and associated land grabs and resulting disputes with a view to identifying the impediments to the ESCR of local communities. The paper ends with a set of recommendations on how the flawed Cameroonian land tenure system can be strengthened to avert land grabs and the ensuing disputes so as to enhance the ESCR of local communities. KEY WORDS: Cameroonian, communities, disputes, economic, enjoyment, ensuing, grabs, impediments, implications, incentivize, land, local, rights, socio-cultural, system, tenure. RESUME La terre, ses ressources annexes et les droits qui s‟y rattachent sont des enjeux majeurs pour la jouissance des droits économiques et socio-culturels (DESC) dans toute société. L‟objectif de cet article est de démontrer que le système foncier camerounais incite l‟accaparement des terres et les différends qui en découlentet, de ce fait, constitue une entrave aux DESC des communautés locales. Il a été établi que les entraves susmentionnées affectent directement les DESC de ces communautés. A partir des approches méthodologiques généalogique, doctrinale et analytique dans le traitement des données primaires et secondaires, cet article évalue le système foncier camerounais et les accaparements de terres ainsi que les conflits qui en résultent en vue d‟identifier les obstacles aux DESC des communautés locales. Les analyses s‟achèvent par la formulation.

2014

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Qualitative and Multi-Method Research, 2020

Qualitative and Multi-Method Research | iii Qualitative & Multi-Method Research Finally, our last set of essays remembers the inimitable Kendra Koivu, who passed away in early fall 2019. Kendra was a serious methodologist who had made her mark on the study of qualitative and mixed methods as a junior scholar. Our tribute to her examines the impact she had on her colleagues, her students, her friends, and the discipline as a whole. A bit of a spoiler: Her impact was great. Indeed, Kendra was well on her way to pushing the study of methods forward in her own right. See, for example, her help in coining the term, SUIN, a now common type of condition utilized in Qualitative Comparative Analysis.

2016

The study was undertaken in the Namasudra Community residing in the Bharatinagar village in Habra-I block of Barasat sub-division of North 24 Parganas district in West Bengal state. The focus of the present paper was: to study the people their place of education that is the context of educational spheres, to study the concept of educational system, levels of education of the study area. To study the organizational structure and role of institutions and their changing aspects, to understand the issues and impacts of development projects on the people in the spheres of education in the area under study. The study possesses two major components In-depth school studies and Investigation ethnography. The data as per requirement of the aims and objectives collected from different sources, like, household’s members, teachers, school, students, parents and other welfare as well as administrative units. The primary as well as contextual data have been collected through: 1. Case studies 2.Int...

2011

Development induced displacement is a risks associated with development intervention which many countries in the word, including Ethiopia, face. Strong and sustainable economic growth is what every country aspires to achieve their respective ‘development’ goals. However, there is no single method that can be applied to achieve the stated development goals. Moreover, there are always associated risks with development. One of the associated risks of development is displacement of people which give rise to social, economic, political and environmental risks. This is mainly because of lack of appropriate policy emplaced that can be used to properly guide the development process for successful mitigation of the associated risks. This research therefore explored risks associated with development intervention, specifically, implementation of a manufacturing project. In order to explore the associated risks qualitative method of research, in which case study design was followed, was conduct...