The Palgrave Handbook of Institutional Ethnography

by Paul C. Luken (Editor), Suzanne Vaughan (Editor)

Overview

A comprehensive guide to the alternative sociology originating in the work of Dorothy E. Smith, this Handbook not only explores the basic, founding principles of institutional ethnography (IE), but also captures current developments, approaches, and debates. Now widely known as a “sociology for people,” IE offers the tools to uncover the social relations shaping the everyday world in which we live and is utilized by scholars and social activists in sociology and beyond, including such fields as education, nursing, social work, linguistics, health and medical care, environmental studies, and other social-service related fields. Covering the theoretical and methodological underpinnings of IE, recent developments, and current areas of research and application that have yet to appear in the literature, The Palgrave Handbook of Institutional Ethnography is suitable for both experienced practitioners of institutional ethnography and those who are exploring this approach for the first time.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783030542245
Publisher:	Springer International Publishing
Publication date:	12/16/2020
Edition description:	1st ed. 2021
Pages:	561
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.25(h) x (d)

About the Author

Paul C. Luken is Associate Professor Emeritus of Sociology at the University of West Georgia, USA, where he taught graduate-level courses on IE. He has helped to draw together IE scholars in multiple contexts, from special issues of journals such as The Journal of Sociology and Social Welfare, to the co-founding of the Institutional Ethnography Division of the Society for Study of Social Problems and the ISA Working Group on Institutional Ethnography of the International Sociological Association.

Suzanne Vaughan is Associate Professor Emeritus of Sociology in the School of Social and Behavioral Sciences at Arizona State University, USA, where she taught undergraduate and graduate classes in institutional ethnography. She is a co-founder and Secretary-Treasurer of the Working Group on Institutional Ethnography of the ISA. She has co-authored numerous journal articles on the institutional ethnography of housing, including in the journals Social Problemsand Social Forces, and has co-edited a special issue of The Journal of Sociology and Social Welfare.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Introduction / Institutional Ethnography: Sociology for Today, Paul C. Luken .- Part 1: Exploring Historical and Ontological Foundations.- Chapter 2: Elements of an Expansive Institutional Ethnography: A Conceptual History of its North American Origins, Marjorie L. Devault.- Chapter 3: Materialist Matters: A Case for Revisiting the Social Ontology of Institutional Ethnography, Liza McCoy.- Chapter 4: Teaching Institutional Ethnography as an Alternative Sociology, Eric Mykhalovsky, Colin Hastings, Leigha Comer, Julia Gruson-Wood, and Mathew Strang.- Chapter 5: Exploring Institutional Words as People's Practices, Dorothy E. Smith.- Part 2: Developing Strategies and Exploring Challenges.- Chapter 6: Mapping Ruling Relations: Advancing the Use of Visual Methods in Institutional Ethnography, Nikole K. Dalmer.- Chapter 7: Discovering the Social Organization of Perinatal Care for Women Living with HIV: Reflections from a Novice Institutional Ethnographer, Allyson Ion.- Chapter 8: IE and Visual Research Methods: An Open-ended Discussion, Morena Tartari.- Chapter 9: And Then There Was Copyright, Suzanne Vaughan.- Chapter 10: Invoking Work Knowledge: Exploring the Social Organization of Producing Gender Studies, Rebecca W.B. Lund.- Chapter 11: Teaching Institutional Ethnography to Undergraduate Students, Kathryn Church.- Part 3: Explicating Global/Transnational Ruling Relations.- Chapter 12: Using Institutional Ethnography to Investigate Intergovernmental Environmental Policy Making, Lauren E. Eastwood.- Chapter 13: Regulating the Duty to Consult: Exploring the Textually-Mediated Nature of Indigenous Dispossession in Chile, Magdalena Ugarte.- Chapter 14: Transnational Power Relations in Education: How it Works Down South, Nerida Spina and Barbara Comber.- Chapter 15: The Struggle for ‘Survival’ in Contemporary Higher Education: The Lived Experiences of Junior Academics, Li-Fang and Yu-Hsuan Lin.- Part 4: Making Change within Communities.- Chapter 16: Building Change On and Off Reserve: Six Nations of the Grand River Territory, Susan Marie Turner and Julia Bomberry.- Chapter 17: Mapping Institutional Relations for Local Policy Change: The Case of Lead Poisoning in Syracuse, New York, Frank Ridzi.- Chapter 18: The Institutional Analysis: Matching What Institutions Do with What Works for People, Ellen Pence.- Part 5: Critiquing Public Sector Management Regimes.- Chapter 19: Professional Talk: Unpacking Professional Language, Ann Christin E. Nilsen.- Chapter 20: The Frontline Interpretive Work of Activating the Americans with Disabilities Act, Eric Rodtiguez.- Chapter 21: Contested Forms of Knowledge in the Criminal-Legal System: Evidence-Based Practice and Other Ways of Knowing among Frontline Workers, Nicole Kaufman and Megan Welsh.- Chapter 22: Public Protection as a Ruling Concept in the Management of Nurses’ Substance Use, Charlotte A. Ross.- Chapter 23: Producing Functional Equivalency in Video Relay Service, Jeremy L. Brunson.- Part 6: Bringing Together Different Approaches and Perspectives.- Chapter 24: Using Composites to Craft Institutional Ethnographic Accounts, Michael Corman.- Chapter 25: Attending to Messy Troubles of the Anthropocene with Institutional Ethnography and Material Semiotics: The Case for Vital Institutional Ethnography, Karly Burch.- Chapter 26: Institutional Ethnography for Social Work, Gerald de Montigny.- Chapter 27: Institutional Ethnography and Youth Participatory Action Research: A Praxis Approach, Naomi Nichols and Jessica Ruglis.

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

“In the past half-century, institutional ethnography has been arguably the most significant initiative in remaking sociology, and an important tool in remaking our troubled world. With illuminating contributions from seasoned practitioners and from innovative emerging scholars, this handbook will be an indispensable resource for critical sociologists, social-justice protagonists and progressive policy communities.”

—William K. Carroll, Professor of Sociology, University of Victoria, Canada, editor of Critical Strategies for Social Research (2004), and author of The Making of a Transnational Capitalist Class (2010)

“Knowledge that makes a difference. Here finally is a comprehensive guide to institutional ethnography (IE), the approach that can help us discover the ruling relations within the very relations of our everyday world. And it covers it all: from theoretical foundations to current research areas, research application and political action. Studies that connect local and global relations of ruling relations but also combine IE with other approaches, concepts and methods. And all of it richly illustrated empirically, illuminating the very knowledge production in practice. Here’s something for everybody—researcher, teacher or student. A gift to us all!”

—Karin Widerberg, Professor of Sociology and Human Geography, University of Oslo, Norway

“This is a wonderful book—lively, readable and instructive! Readers are drawn into institutional ethnographic efforts to understand today’s ordinarily opaque ruling regimes. Some contributors introduce readers to research settings where IE’s core concepts, e.g., ‘standpoint’ and ‘ruling relations’— recognized as operative in particular people’s lives—become more than theory. Knowing how things actually work provides new ideas for responding. The handbook displays IE’s remarkable scope of topics, geographic diffusion, and developing analytic maturity.”

—Marie L. Campbell, Professor Emerita of Human and Social Development, University of Victoria, Canada, and co-author of Mapping Social Relations (2002) and Managing to Nurse (2006)
“Attractive, refreshing, readable and challenging. The handbook offers the reader an unparalleled opportunity to discover the width and depth of institutional ethnography that is not evident in any other books. This book is for those whoseek ways of doing sociology to make changes.”

—Frank T.Y. Wang, Professor of Social Work, National Chengchi University, Taiwan

“The publication of this powerful collection signifies the culmination of decades of exciting interdisciplinary research that draws on the brilliant insights of Canadian scholar Dorothy E. Smith. Chapters include one by Smith and many contributions by the innovative scholars she mentored who, years ago, formed an activist-scholar collective dedicated to bringing this form of social inquiry into fields of sociology, health, education, comparative research,social policy, social activism and beyond. As this extensive volume demonstrates, the influence of institutional ethnography has expanded from a challenge to ontological and epistemological assumptions of theory and methods in social science to a broader effect on transnational and applied approaches to social change and social justice. The authors represent several generations of researchers and scholar activists whose collective contributions in this book now form the basis of a resource for generations to come.”

—Nancy Naples, Distinguished Board of Trustees Professor of Sociology and Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies, University of Connecticut, USA, author of Feminism and Method (2003) and co-editor of Border Politics: Social Movements, Collective Identities, and Globalization (2014)

“The inclusion of theory and methodological concerns within a single text is welcome and will aid novice researchers seeking to understand and utilize IE. I think it is particularly important that the handbook includes contributions from students and neophytes as well as established researchers. Indeed, I believe this to be a strength of the book.”

—James Reid, Senior Lecturer of Education and Community Studies, University of Huddersfield, UK