This book provides a critical, ethnographically grounded examination of the hype surrounding the idea of impact by investigating the work of those attempting to create innovative social ventures. Through in-depth immersion in the day-to-day running of a social impact accelerator, Guillaume Dumont reveals the intricate, behind-the-scenes socializati...
Published in Culture, medicine and psychiatry
"Competence" is a longstanding value of American biomedicine. One underidentified corollary of competence is efficiency: at once a manifestation of competence, a challenge to competence, and a virtue in its own right. We will explore the social construction of efficiency in US undergraduate medical education through an analysis of its sociocultural...
This ethnography draws on key informant interviews and participant observation to produce a case study about plastic mulching as an important industry standard in specialty crop production. It documents the historic adoption and present role of plastic mulching technology in California strawberry production and addresses the characteristics of comm...
Published in Zeitschrift für Soziologie
Dieser Beitrag bestimmt Gangsta-Rap als ein soziales Spiel, dem eine spezifische Sinnwelt zugrunde liegt – eine Welt, die von eigen(sinnig)en Sprach- und Verhaltensweisen sowie vielfältigen, zugleich bewussten und unbewussten Zielen und Bedürfnissen geprägt ist und dabei Wirkungen erzielt, die von den Spielenden teilweise selbst nicht überblickt we...
"I make two points about the role of threats for ethnographic fieldwork in contexts suffused by interpersonal violence. First, the experience of implicit and explicit threats operates as a powerful cultural agent that significantly transforms fieldworkers’ relationship with the field. Second, subjecting oneself to threats can become a central compo...
Based on experiences from multiple international research projects, spanning several decades and utilizing various forms of collaborative ethnographic approaches, this article aims to reflect on challenges and potentials regarding language and communication when researching across jurisdictions. Thematically, the research projects that we draw on i...
This paper proposes to examine the question of what is knowhow, in particular, corporeal knowhow, by drawing on ethnographic data on the transmission of Odissi dance in the Indian State of Odisha. The object that is created through corporeal knowhow, the expertise involved in its creation, all coincide with the body—and therefore the subjectivity—o...
This chapter, written by the four editors of this volume, Hugo Letiche, Ivo De Loo, Carolyn Cordery and Jean-Luc Moriceau, explains how the ‘ethnographies of accountability’ project came about, why it can be seen as an experiment, why ethnography and accountability are closely linked and why the book demanded to be written now. A classification of ...
This book discusses (auto- )ethnographies of accountability, undertaken (in close collaboration) by a multinational group of accounting and organization theory researchers over a period of three years. The key assumption underlying the book is that accountability is inherently an identity- creating process where the study of account- making has to ...
Este artículo aborda las relaciones entre el Estado mexicano y las poblaciones originarias generadas a través del reconocimiento a prácticas culturales y a su financiamiento, considerando este tema como clave para identificar nuevas formas de interacción y posicionamiento de los grupos indígenas en el espacio político. Se toma como referencia un es...
