Methodology in Global Studies

Please note that the reading list consists of two versions, designed for English and Swedish course tracks separately. See readings for the Swedish course further down. 

Reading list designed for the course track with English as language of Instruction

Books

Boréus, Kristina, Anders Björkvall & Per-Anders Svärd (eds.). 2024. Analyzing Text and Discourse: Nine Approaches for the Social Sciences. Second edition. London: Sage. 263 p.

Rigterink, Anouk & Mareike Schomerus. 2026: Research Design in Politics and International Relations. First edition. London: Sage. 440 p.

Book chapters

Clark, Tom, Liam Foster, Luke Sloan, Charlotte Brookfield, & Alan Bryman. 2026: Bryman’s Social Research Methods. Seventh edition. Oxford University Press. Selected chapters.

David Marsh, Selen A Ercan & Paul Furlong. 2018. ‘A Skin Not a Sweater: Ontology and Epistemology in Political Science.’ In Vivien Lowndes, David Marsh & Gerry Stoker (eds.): Theory and methods in political science. Fourth edition. Basingstoke: Macmillan. pp. 177-198.

Jackson, Patrick Thaddeus. 2016. The conduct of inquiry in international relations : philosophy of science and its implications for the study of world politics. Second edition. London: Routledge. Chapter 2.

Articles

Bucerius, Sandra Meike (2013) ‘Becoming a “Trusted Outsider”: Gender, Ethnicity, and Inequality in Ethnographic Research’, Journal of Contemporary Ethnography 42(6), 690-721. (c. 31p)

Knott, Eleanor, Aliya Hamid Rao, Kate Summers & Chana Teeger. 2022:  ‘Interviews in the social sciences.’ Nature Reviews Methods Primers 2, 73. https://doi.org/10.1038/s43586-022-00150-6

Skjott Linneberg, Mai, and Steffen Korsgaard. 2019. “Coding Qualitative Data: A Synthesis Guiding the Novice.” Qualitative Research Journal 19 (3): 259–70. https://doi.org/10.1108/QRJ-12-2018-0012

Wackenhut, Arne F. (2018) ‘Ethical Considerations and Dilemmas Before, during and after Fieldwork in Less-Democratic Contexts: some Reflections from Post-Uprising Egypt’, The American Sociologist 49(2), 242-257. (c.15p)

Recommended readings

Brinkmann, Svend & Kvale, Steinar (2015). InterViews: learning the craft of qualitative research interviewing. 3., [updated] ed. Los Angeles: Sage Publications, ISBN: 9781452275727

Swedish Research Council, n.d. Ethics. At: https://www.vr.se/english/mandates/ethics.html

Swedish Research Council, 2024: Good Research Practice. At: https://www.vr.se/english/analysis/reports/our-reports/2025-07-03-good-research-practice-2024.html

Winther Jørgensen, Marianne & Phillips, Louise (2002). Discourse analysis as theory and method. London: Sage, ISBN: 0761971114.

Reading list designed for the course track with Swedish as language of Instruction

Böcker

Boréus, K., & Bergström, G. (2018). Textens mening och makt: Metodbok i samhällsvetenskaplig text- och diskursanalys. Lund: Studentlitteratur. (ca 440 sidor)

Bryman, Alan (2018). Samhällsvetenskapliga metoder. Stockholm: Liber. (ca 880 sidor)

Godfrey-Smith, Peter. (2021). Theory and reality: An introduction to the philosophy of science. Second edition. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Kapitel ur bok 

Buch-Hansen, Hubert and Peter Nielsen (2020) Critical realism: Basics and beyond. Bloomsbury. (Chapters 3-4).

Creswell, John H. & Creswell David J.(2022). Research design: Qualitative, quantitative and mixed methods approaches. Sixth edition. Sage. (Chapters 5-9).

Diez, Ddavid, Mine Cetinkaya-Rundel and Christopher Barr (2019) OpenIntro Statistics, Fourth edition. LeanPub. https://www.openintro.org/book/os/ (Chapters 1-4, 8).

Eliasson, Annika (2018). Kvantitativ metod från början. Kapitel 3: Samla in kvantitativa data (s. 33-64). Lund: Studentlitteratur. (ca. 31 sidor).

Kvale, Steinar & Brinkmann, Svend (2014). Den kvalitativa forskningsintervjun. Kapitel 4 Etiska frågor kring intervjuande (s. 97-114). Lund: Studentlitteratur. (ca. 17 sidor)

Smith, Linda T. (2021) Decolonizing methodologies: Research and Indigenous peoples. Third edition. Bloomsbury. (Chapter 1).

Sousa, Filipe J. (2010) Metatheories in research: Positivism, postmodernism, and critical realism. In Organization culture: Business-to-business relationships, and interfirm networks, edited by Arch G. Woodside. Emerald Group Publishing.

Artiklar

Haraway, Donna (1988) Situated knowledges: The science question in feminism and the privilege of partial perspective. Feminist studies 14(3): 575-599.

Shah, Alpa (2018) Ethnography? Participant observation, a potentially revolutionary praxis. Journal of Ethnographic Theory 7(1): 45-59.

Wall, Georgia (2018) Looking not for Truth, but Meaning: An introduction to ethnography with Professor Marion Demossier and Dr. Margaret Hill de Zárate. Exchanges: The Interdisciplinary Research Journal 5(2): 15-25.