Case Study in Social Research

Mabry, Linda

doi:10.4135/9781446212165.n13

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“…It should be noted that due to their context-specific nature, case studies provide but a limited potential for directly generalizing their findings (Lieberson, 1991;Mabry, 2008, p. 223). Instead, concerning the specific object of study like water supply, cautious generalizations to the immediate surroundings can be made, such as from individuals to residential area, or from residential areas to the city (Mabry, 2008). 7.…”

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Water Privatization and Social Citizenship: The Case of Urban Water Sector in Ghana

Hirvi

2012

Journal of Civil Society

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The impact of globalization on citizenship has recently gathered considerable academic attention. In the literature it is assumed that globalization will alter citizenship, either by constraining or enabling it. The article explores this question through the relationship between water privatization and social citizenship. It asks to what extent privatization, as an aspect of globalization, alters people's social right to water. Drawing from interviews and documents collected in 2008 and 2009, and a review of secondary literature, the article argues that in Ghana's capital Accra, water privatization left people's social citizenship relatively unchanged. The study shows how social citizenship is rooted in its historical context of unequal access to water in a post-colonial society, and how the privatization policy was mediated by this context, bringing relatively little change. Instead, many flexible, self-enforced social citizenships are in place which challenge the universal notions of Western political theory and which continued to operate under the privatization arrangement. The article concludes that in some cases, globalization influences citizenship less than previous literature argues, and suggests that for making balanced arguments, debates about water privatization need to take the contextual dynamics of specific settings more carefully into account.

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Water Privatization and Social Citizenship: The Case of Urban Water Sector in Ghana

Hirvi

2012

Journal of Civil Society

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“…The aim is to adopt different theoretical concepts and methods, such as policy analysis as well as semistructured in-depth interviews. The key objective is to generate or to redefine theoretical concepts and discussions and not to test theoretical concepts and ideas (Mabry 2009). For this purpose, we analyse policy documents, laws and the literature of the four countries.…”

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Justice and flood risk management: reflecting on different approaches to distribute and allocate flood risk management in Europe

2016

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This paper compares the inherent notions of justice in four different approaches to flood risk management in Europe. As protection against flood risks becomes increasingly difficult, dilemmas of justice emerge: some benefits from flood protection measures whereas others loose. Decisions on whom to protect differentiate between upstream and downstream or left and right side of a river. This raises a central but barely discussed conflict: what (or rather who) should be protected against inundations? This question deals in essence with justice. Justice concerns questions over fairness in the allocation of resources, capital and wealth across different members of society. There are different and contradicting concepts of justice, which differ in interpretations of fair resource allocation and distributions. 'What's the right thing to protect' is thus a question of concepts of justice. This contribution is not an attempt to answer this fundamental question, but it offers a debate on how different concepts of justice provide different answers. These answers will then be related to flood risk management approaches in England, the Netherlands, Germany, and Austria.

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“…Since the time of primordial ooze, human beings have interacted with the environment, attempting to make sense of what they have experienced; 'this is as natural to humans as breathing' ( [39]: iii). It is held that human elements are 'distinguished on the basis of their sense-making proclivities' ( [46]: 215). Technological structures are portrayed as products of this 'sense-making' process, a process portrayed as a feature differentiating humans from other animals.…”

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The social shaping of educational technologies in Saudi Arabia: An examination of how the social fabric shapes the construction and use of technologies

Lily

2013

Technology in Society

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Case Study in Social Research

Cited by 96 publications

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Water Privatization and Social Citizenship: The Case of Urban Water Sector in Ghana

Water Privatization and Social Citizenship: The Case of Urban Water Sector in Ghana

Justice and flood risk management: reflecting on different approaches to distribute and allocate flood risk management in Europe

The social shaping of educational technologies in Saudi Arabia: An examination of how the social fabric shapes the construction and use of technologies

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