Introduction: Gendering the Everyday in the UK House of Commons—Beneath the Spectacle

Miller, Cherry

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“…Political ethnography contains subfields, such as policy ethnography (Shore et al, 2011), parliamentary ethnography (Crewe, 2021) and political party ethnography (Aronoff, 1977;Crewe, 2020;Faucher, 2020). Notably, it can be approached from different ontological and epistemological positions that influence the methods chosen (Schatz, 2009), and the practice of parliamentary ethnographies may change with the type of parliament (Miller, 2021;Adiputri, 2019). Ethnography can be used as part of a standalone approach.…”

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European Parliament’s Political Groups in Turbulent Times

Silva¹

2023

Journal of Contemporary European Studies

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European Parliament’s Political Groups in Turbulent Times

Silva¹

2023

Journal of Contemporary European Studies

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“…This affected the research practices, which will be explained later in the chapter. Notably, while these three research practices are elucidated, the epistemological impulse towards ethnography as a sensibility (Miller, 2021;Wedeen, 2009) meant that each practice required different degrees of participation.…”

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‘Ethno, Ethno, What?’: Using Ethnography to Explore the European Parliament’s Political Groups in Turbulent Times

Miller

2022

Palgrave Studies in European Union Politics

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Ethnography is still relatively unknown, not just to parliamentary interlocutors, but also to some political scientists. In this chapter, I ask: what does ethnography add to existing qualitative research on the political groups of the European Parliament, more specifically on the substantive themes of the book: democracy, party politics and turbulent times? Secondly, drawing on the chapter’s title, I offer a practical illustration of how ethnography might be conducted of the political groups and elucidate the practices and challenges that this entails. The chapter is based upon my ethnographic research conducted in the 8th and 9th European Parliaments. I introduce shadowing, meeting ethnography and ‘hanging out’ as three ethnographic practices and assess their helpfulness for studying different political group activities. Overall, I present parliamentary ethnography as not only affording practical benefits to researchers, but also how it provides unparalleled knowledge about entanglements and relationships between political group actors and institutions.

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“…So let us consider these critiques. Palonen is right that ethnographers share an interest in the everyday (Apter, 1987;Ab el es, 1991;Busby, 2013;Crewe, 2015Crewe, , 2021Abram, 2017;Rai and Spray, 2019;Ahmed, 2019;Geddes, 2020;Miller, 2021). For example, Rai's and Spray's subsequent in-depth study of women MPs, based on interviewing, observation and being embedded, is highly ethnographic with its methods and commitment to multi-disciplinarity but above all in their attention to the everyday (2019).…”

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“…The extent to which people self-identify as ethnographers is influenced in part by the disciplinary processes within their discipline. Until recently, despite the occasional and popular ethnographies undertaken political scientists, notably the breathtakingly innovative Home Style by Fenno (1978) and ethnographically informed studies by Puwar (2004), Leston-Bandeira (2016), Rai and Spray (2019) and Prior (2019), as well as self-identified ethnographies by Geddes (2020) and Miller (2021) in the UK alone, political science was dismissive of ethnographic research, or what were assumed to be "microstudies", for their lack of capacity for finding causal links, for inadequate generalising and for their occasional narcissism (see next section for details). Conversely, anthropologists have shown signs of being proprietorial about "ethnography," with reviewers of grant applications complaining that proposed ethnographic studies were insufficiently reflexive or weakened by the absence of an anthropologist [2].…”

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An ethnography of parliamentary ethnographers: riffs, rhythms and rituals in their research

Crewe

2021

JOE

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Social science has witnessed a growing respect towards ethnography albeit in an uneven way across regions and disciplines [1]. The tolerance for ethnography in parliamentary studies seems to be far higher in the United Kingdom (UK) than in the USA, but perhaps less fulsome than it is in France (Rozenburg, 2018). This is hardly surprising as the first ethnographic study of a parliament in Europe was carried out by Marc Ab el es on the French Assembly and the relationship between the local and the centre in French politics (1991, 2000). Assessing attitudes among scholars towards ethnography requires an ethnography in itself, and this is a complex task because it demands more than a survey of outputs. Just as parliaments should not only be judged by the laws, policies and other texts they produce but by its embodied performances, so too the history of any branch of scholarship requires more than a study of publications. The community of ethnographic enquirers in parliaments is not only writers but also students, networkers, speakers, activists and teachers, with allies and critics in the academy but also in civil society as well as organisations of the state, contending with a web of academic hierarchies and national or disciplinary regimes and norms. Furthermore, what and how they study is not only shaped by their location and discipline but their own varying sources of inspiration, habitus and identity. In this essay, I will merely offer some preliminary insights into the thought collective of ethnographers of parliament.

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Introduction: Gendering the Everyday in the UK House of Commons—Beneath the Spectacle

Cited by 10 publications

References 37 publications

European Parliament’s Political Groups in Turbulent Times

European Parliament’s Political Groups in Turbulent Times

‘Ethno, Ethno, What?’: Using Ethnography to Explore the European Parliament’s Political Groups in Turbulent Times

An ethnography of parliamentary ethnographers: riffs, rhythms and rituals in their research

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