Institutional ethnography in geography /
Institutional ethnography (IE) was developed by sociologist Dorothy Smith (1987, 2006) and later used by other feminist social scientists (e.g., Devault, 2006). The methodological approach has explicit critical or liberatory goals to explicate processes of subordination. It is also rooted in Marxist...
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| Language: | English |
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| Summary: | Institutional ethnography (IE) was developed by sociologist Dorothy Smith (1987, 2006) and later used by other feminist social scientists (e.g., Devault, 2006). The methodological approach has explicit critical or liberatory goals to explicate processes of subordination. It is also rooted in Marxist and feminist scholarship. This entry examines the roots of IE conceptualized by Smith as a methodology for women. IE has been advanced through interdisciplinary approaches, which attend to sites of institutional production and how the institution produces daily lives. While scholars who use IE employ various epistemological approaches, this entry suggests that a feminist epistemological approach will create the space for those voices that are often marginalized and repressed to emerge. Further engagement with the methodology could incorporate analysis of subjectivities through an ... |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781529748536 1529748534 9781526421036 1526421038 |