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Published by CODESRIA from 2019.

Méthod(e)s: African Review of Social Sciences Methodology is a bilingual, international multidisciplinary journal publishing articles on social sciences research methodology in English and French. The journal also welcomes during the first stage of its selection process paper proposals in Arabic, Spanish, Portuguese and Mandarin Chinese.

The journal provides a forum to discuss various aspects of social science research and epistemology as they apply to historical contexts and engages in current debates on social sciences methodology. Méthod(e)s: African Review of Social Sciences Methodology examines the theoretical foundations and methodological problems encountered in the practical exercise of the social sciences in Africa as part of the global South (both in general and in individual countries) and serves as an international medium for the publication of social research methodology across a wide range of social sciences disciplines, historical contexts and terrains. The journal publishes on-going and emerging methodological debates spanning a variety of approaches - both qualitative and quantitative - including mixed and comparative methods, as they relate to philosophical, theoretical, ethical, political, historical and practical issues. With an editorial board that encompasses scholars from different disciplines based at African and international universities alike, the journal, as an African initiative, aims to bring the new research perspectives arising from the social and historical specificities of non-Western societies to the global conversation on methodology and epistemology.

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Volume 2, Issue 1-2, 2017

Epistemological Fractures in a Globalized World: Normalizations, Debates and Alternatives in the Social Sciences

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Volume 1, Issue 1-2, 2015

Weak Theory, Bad Data? Heuristic Roles and Practical Limits in Fieldwork/Faible théorie, faibles données ? Rôles heuristiques et limites pratiques des concepts dans le travail de terrain