Community-Based and Participatory Approaches in Institutional Ethnography

Nichols, Naomi; Griffith, Alison; McLarnon, Mitchell

doi:10.1108/s1042-319220170000015008

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“…Finally, such ethnographers are well positioned to map the relations between criminal justice and legal agencies that could be revealing to those working in those agencies, as well as those subject to their governing practices. IE could help criminal justice and socio-legal scholars to challenge dominant ruling discourses in the justice sector (Mykhalovskiy and McCoy 2002) and to extend community-based and participatory approaches to research (Nichols, Griffith and McLarnon 2018;Smith 1990) as well. The cited criminal justice and legal institutional ethnographies provide good examples of the multiple types of texts that are involved in criminal justice and legal processes, and how criminal justice and socio-legal studies can benefit from IE's insights.…”

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Institutional Ethnography as a Method of Inquiry for Criminal Justice and Socio-Legal Studies

Doll

Walby

2019

Int J for Crime, Justice & Social Democracy

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Institutional ethnography (IE) is a method of inquiry created by Canadian feminist sociologist Dorothy E. Smith to examine how sequences of texts coordinate forms of organisation. Here we explain how to use IE, and why scholars in criminal justice and socio-legal studies should use it in their research. We focus on IE’s analysis of texts and intertextual hierarchy, as well as Smith’s understanding of mapping as a methodological technique; the latter entails explaining how IE’s approach to mapping differs from other social science approaches. We also argue that IE’s terms and techniques can help examine the textual work undertaken in criminal justice and legal organisations, and reveal how people are governed and ruled by these organisational processes. In the discussion, we summarise how IE can productively contribute to criminal justice and socio-legal studies in the twenty-first century.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Institutional Ethnography as a Method of Inquiry for Criminal Justice and Socio-Legal Studies

Doll

Walby

2019

Int J for Crime, Justice & Social Democracy

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“…(See Malachowski, Skorobohacz, and Stasiulis 2017, for a comprehensive scoping.) IE has been put to work, not without controversy, in conjunction with a range of other conceptual frameworks, including governmentality (Teghtsoonian 2016), critical participatory action research (Nichols, Griffith, and McLarnon 2018), actor network theory (Tummons 2010), critical discourse theory (Peacock 2014), and new materialism (McCoy 2014). Explorations of new materialism in conjunction with IE represent a growing desire on the part of IE researchers to account for the influence of more than just texts, as non-human, “entangled” in the governing of human actions (Barad 2014).…”

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Institutional Ethnography and the Materiality of Affect: Affective Circuits as Indicators of Other Possibilities

Talbot

2020

Journal of Contemporary Ethnography

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Many studies have utilized institutional ethnography (IE) to reveal the social relations that govern how things are put together at the frontline of work, particularly in the public sector and education. The focus has generally been on restrictive practices associated with accountability regimes of new public management. Less analytic attention has been paid, however, to discovering ways in which workers are finding how it can be otherwise. Revisiting the data from a longitudinal study, originally conducted as an IE, provided an opportunity to trace the influence of affect in relation to teachers’ practices. Grounded in empirical data, this article makes a case for the methodological innovation of tracing the work done by affect, as part of an IE, in order to reveal possibilities for resistance.

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“…Ethnographers and academic researchers and their related university and funding body institutions generate knowledge about and with people that is structured to depict participants' day-to-day living. This knowledge is sometimes institutionally actionable in ways that people's knowledge of their own lives is not (Nichols et al, 2017). Nichols et al (2017), in their research about young people's experiences of housing insecurity in Ontario, discuss how public sector documents are often prioritised as fact over and above the young people's own life circumstances and accounts.…”

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Ethnography, ethics and ownership of data

Russell

Barley

2019

Ethnography

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Establishing trust and obtaining informed consent with participants is reliant upon on a process whereby unequally positioned agents constantly re-negotiate (mis)trust and consent during ethnographic encounters. All research has been increasingly subject to an intensification in ethical regulation, within a context whereby Eurocentric norms and ethical guidelines arguably diminish individual accountability under the guise of quasi-contractual relationships. This phenomenon has particular implications for ethnography and its management of ethics, given its intimate, longitudinal and receptive nature. Two expert ethnographers working with children and young people draw upon their work to reveal how issues of informed consent and data ownership can shift and be a source of tension and unequal power dynamics. The ethnographer requires autonomy while managing ethics soundly in situ to work within the messiness and unpredictability of participants’ everyday lives.

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Community-Based and Participatory Approaches in Institutional Ethnography

Cited by 17 publications

References 21 publications

Institutional Ethnography as a Method of Inquiry for Criminal Justice and Socio-Legal Studies

Institutional Ethnography as a Method of Inquiry for Criminal Justice and Socio-Legal Studies

Institutional Ethnography and the Materiality of Affect: Affective Circuits as Indicators of Other Possibilities

Ethnography, ethics and ownership of data

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