Abstract

Given the long tradition of regional studies, local case studies and avoidance of transfer of eurocentric concepts in development research, fundamental methodological reconsidering seems in order within a process of globalizing social science. An interactive approach based on sociology of knowledge, ‘grounded theory’ and ‘global ethnography’ focuses on negotiation of global development visions at interfaces of global, regional, translocal and local institutions. Such mid-range conceptualizations include meanings or translation of visions and concepts in translocal social spaces, leaving behind agency/structure as well as micro/macro distinctions and thereby overcoming boundaries of knowledge production. Whereas methodologies can still be built on disciplinary and regional ground, such as global ethnography and certain forms of theory building based on regional traditions, classical distinctions of development, regional or world-system studies can be overcome through new forms of interdisciplinarity such as transnationalization and globalization studies.

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