Using ethnography in comparative policy analysis: premises, promises and perils

Pacheco-Vega, Raúl

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“…The approach presented here, developed alongside and informed by other comparative multi-sited ethnographic works (e.g., Benton et al 2017;Beresford 2021;Ember 2009;Garth and Hardin 2019;Jordan 1992;Mendenhall 2019;Pacheco-Vega 2020), enables us to identify overarching metathemes and inter-relationships between themes across our datasets. After we finished data collection, we met repeatedly to discuss the themes emerging from our data during analysis, paying particular attention to the identification of, and agreement around, metathemes (Wutich et al 2021).…”

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“…There has been a slow and steady revival of cross-cultural ethnography in recent decades (Candea, 2019;Falzon, 2016). This work explores how meanings are shared across cultural contexts, while also deeply describing and contextualizing meanings in ethnographically-situated ways (e.g., Benton et al, 2017;Beresford, 2021;Ember, 2009;Garth & Hardin, 2019;Jordan, 1992;Mendenhall, 2019;Pacheco-Vega, 2020). Despite this burgeoning renaissance, methodological research on cross-cultural ethnography has exploded only in the last 5 years.…”

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“…It is, however different from these approaches, as shown in Table 1. Qualitative metatheme analysis has been formally introduced in the methods literature (e.g., Hagaman & Wutich, 2017), and is applied informally to a number of cross-cultural, multi-sited, and comparative ethnographic works (e.g., Benton et al, 2017;Beresford, 2021;Ember, 2009;Garth & Hardin, 2019;Jordan, 1992;Mendenhall, 2019;Pacheco-Vega, 2020).…”

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“…In recent years, there has been a florescence of cross-cultural research using ethnographic data. This cutting-edge work confronts a range of significant methodological challenges in undertaking cross-cultural ethnography (Bollig et al, 2020;Falzon, 2016;Hirsch et al, 2020;Pacheco-Vega, 2020;. While this new methodological scholarship is rapidly and significantly advancing our understanding of how to conduct qualitative cross-cultural research, it currently provides very little guidance on how to do thematic analysis cross-culturally.…”

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Metatheme Analysis: A Qualitative Method for Cross-Cultural Research

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International Journal of Qualitative Methods

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In recent years, there has been a florescence of cross-cultural research using ethnographic and qualitative data. This cutting-edge work confronts a range of significant methodological challenges, but has not yet addressed how thematic analysis can be modified for use in cross-cultural ethnography. Thematic analysis is widely used in qualitative and mixed-methods research, yet is not currently well-adapted to cross-cultural ethnographic designs. We build on existing thematic analysis techniques to discuss a method to inductively identify metathemes (defined here as themes that occur across cultures). Identifying metathemes in cross-cultural research is important because metathemes enable researchers to use systematic comparisons to identify significant patterns in cross-cultural datasets and to describe those patterns in rich, contextually-specific ways. We demonstrate this method with data from a collaborative cross-cultural ethnographic research project (exploring weight-related stigma) that used the same sampling frame, interview protocol, and analytic process in four cross-cultural research sites in Samoa, Paraguay, Japan, and the United States. Detecting metathemes that transcend data collected in different languages, cultures, and sites, we discuss the benefits and challenges of qualitative metatheme analysis.

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“…I took field notes in both English and Spanish and ran the coding process in both languages to ensure that translation would not detract from the insights gained during the process. I followed Bernard and Ryan's approach to develop themes [82][83][84] Analytical strategy II (laws, regulations and codes Institutional Grammar Tool (IGT) analysis): I also undertook a regulatory analysis of the state-level laws, the National Water Law (Ley de Aguas Nacionales (LAN) and municipal-level regulations and bylaws using Ostrom and Crawford's Institutional Grammar Tool with the empirical innovations proposed by Siddiki, Basurto, and others [85,86]. The IGT is a systematic approach to coding rules that are encoded in regulations, laws, bylaws, and other instruments.…”

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Governing Urban Water Conflict through Watershed Councils—A Public Policy Analysis Approach and Critique

Pacheco-Vega

2020

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Cities face substantial water governance challenges, even more so when their activities are water-intensive, as global tourism is. As the lower-most level of government, municipalities face important challenges when dealing with water stress. Designing robust urban water policy thus may require us to challenge currently popular modes of governance by river basin councils, as predicated by the integrated water resources management (IWRM) paradigm. In this paper, I conduct a public policy analysis of a case study of intra-urban water conflict in the Mexican city of San Miguel de Allende (SMA), an extremely popular tourist destination with substantive water scarcity challenges. I draw insights from an application of the Institutional Grammar Tool, IGT (as proposed by Ostrom and Crawford) on a series of textual datasets derived from ethnographic, qualitative longitudinal field research, document analysis, and elite interviews with stakeholders to explain the reasons underlying community concerns about urban water supply which have derived in conflict in San Miguel de Allende and increasingly manifested over the past few years (2017–2020). My analysis suggests that to tackle growing intra-urban antagonism derived from increasing water insecurity in San Miguel de Allende, a more localized, micro-watershed approach might be more fruitful than a traditional river basin council strategy.

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Using ethnography in comparative policy analysis: premises, promises and perils

Cited by 8 publications

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Fat Is All My Fault: Globalized Metathemes of Body Self‐blame

Fat Is All My Fault: Globalized Metathemes of Body Self‐blame

Metatheme Analysis: A Qualitative Method for Cross-Cultural Research

Governing Urban Water Conflict through Watershed Councils—A Public Policy Analysis Approach and Critique

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