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This chapter outlines how the project undertakes this challenge, detailing the study’s research design and methodological choices. To this end, the chapter begins by recalling the conceptual framework which was adopted, providing theoretic justification for the multi-sited approach. It then proceeds to present a description of the key activities which comprised the data-gathering portion of the study, and the research principles which guided analysis.
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MacFarlane, J.M. (2020). Methods and Methodology. In: Transhumanism as a New Social Movement. Palgrave Studies in the Future of Humanity and its Successors. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-40090-3_3
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