Table 11: To Show the Two Empirical Phases of the Research Phase NGOs Material Analysis Two case studies of Text of vision and mission Text-mining application First publicly accessible statements extracted from was used to analyse NGOs: websites. corpora comprising vision NGOs’ and mission statements 100 based in West from each case study. Bengal Analysis methodology was based on 100 London based. Second Two case studies 30 transcripts of interviews Coded transcripts using a each drawn from a with activists. 2 emailed qualitative data analysis subset of NGOs responses and interview computer software from the first phase. transcripts with interview and package. The analysis a further two emailed methodology was based responses only. on grounded theory. This section has provided a summary of the research question and the next section of this chapter will flesh out these themes in more detail by situating them in terms of key tensions in four current scholarly conversations. The Research Question in Relation to Key Theoretical and Substantive Literature This project is a sociological study which explores how activists in two NGO case studies represented their ability to engage with human rights and human women’s rights frameworks. This thesis is situated in the intersection between the sociology of human rights and discourses on gender inequalities. It contributes to the understanding of and agency within this intersection. It does activists’ beneficiaries’ so from a sociological perspective. The thesis therefore engages with substantive issues related to a theoretical understanding of what Dflam and Chicoine suggest is the of the sociology of human The “newly emerging speciality rights” (2011: 102). thesis provides evidence of how the human rights and human rights women’s framework are operationalised on the ground by NGOs. The empirical work was initially inspired by and then drew upon conversations within the scholarly literature
Table 11: To Show the Two Empirical Phases of the Research Phase NGOs Material Analysis First Two case studies of publicly accessible NGOs: 100 based in West Bengal 100 London based. Text of vision and mission statements extracted from NGOs’ websites. Text-mining application was used to analyse corpora comprising vision and mission statements from each case study. Analysis methodology was based on Second Two case studies each drawn from a subset of NGOs from the first phase. 30 transcripts of interviews with activists. 2 emailed responses and interview transcripts with interview and a further two emailed responses only. Coded transcripts using a qualitative data analysis computer software package. The analysis methodology was based on grounded theory. This section has provided a summary of the research question and the next section of this chapter will flesh out these themes in more detail by situating them in terms of key tensions in four current scholarly conversations. The Research Question in Relation to Key Theoretical and Substantive Literature This project is a sociological study which explores how activists in two NGO case studies represented their ability to engage with human rights and women’s human rights frameworks. This thesis is situated in the intersection between the sociology of human rights and discourses on gender inequalities. It contributes to the understanding of activists’ and beneficiaries’ agency within this intersection. It does so from a sociological perspective. The thesis therefore engages with substantive issues related to a theoretical understanding of what Dflam and Chicoine suggest is the “newly emerging speciality of the sociology of human rights” (2011: 102). The thesis provides evidence of how the human rights and women’s human rights framework are operationalised on the ground by NGOs. The empirical work was initially inspired by and then drew upon conversations within the scholarly literature
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