Leo’s International Fieldwork

Welcome to my International Fieldwork blog.

Here you will find, week by week, the progress of the module. I will post about the course’s topics, the work around them and some personal reflections.

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Blog #10 – Methods Application

Methods Application Interviews The method utilised has been one-to-one interviews. The interviews have been semi-structured to let the subject talk and grasp as much information as possible. This, coherently with the methodological assumptions, aimed to understand the pattern of narratives behind people and places rather than giving precise and unequivocal answers. As also presented by…

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Blog #9 – Methodology and Methods

Methodology & Methods This section will present the theoretical layouts that I followed throughout the research development. Methodology Being this project grounded on the basis of qualitative inquiry, the methodology has been developed in regard to the understanding of meanings, rather than of generalisable results. (Njie & Asimiran, 2014). Epistemology and Ontology have thus been…

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Blog #8 – Literature Review

Housing Crisis The housing crisis in Amsterdam is not a new phenomenon, although it has worsened exponentially in the last few years. As outlined in the introduction, prices of both buying and renting are skyrocketing, in turn, impacting the subsidized housing market (Wenders, 2020). The investment and commercial bank UBS (2021) has granted the city…

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Blog #7

This week I interviewed more people; for the first time, I had to deal with persons with different backgrounds, starting to trace some initial links. The Housing Crisis in Amsterdam (and more widely in all of the Netherlands) is not only widely recognised, but it occupies a large share of residents’ concerns. In other words,…

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