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2015 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
Livelihood Pathways
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In Chapters 1 and 2, I explored various theoretical approaches to understand the self-in-process within a shifting institutional landscape.2 In a sense, the aim of such frameworks is to disrupt the simplification of social realities, to ‘render complex’ what might otherwise be reduced to an ‘object of information’ (Strathern 2006a). On the other hand, contributing to knowledge for development demands that this complexity be rendered legible, communicable in the language and cognitive frames of the research project. In this chapter, I outline my attempts to achieve these conflicting ambitions, to bring complexity into interpretations of the empirical material, while producing a narrative that is persuasive for my colleagues. This required a complementarity with the cognitive frames of the project, including a certain ‘logic’ to the collection and analysis of empirical material. I present the steps through which I did so in the hope that it may prove useful for other researchers of development.