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This chapter introduces the handbook both as a design guide and as a way to integrate research’s personal and collective possibilities. It defines “project design” as the process of assembling project concepts and intentions within a congruent framework of inquiry. This approach allows researchers to play with different and unusual combinations of researchable concepts—people, places, processes, things, and ideas—until they land on the one that best reflects their scholarly, social, and political aims.

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