IE Newsletter Volume 14 No. 1 From the Division Chair: Naomi Nichols Hello my IE people! As much as I love writing these greetings, it is time to pass on the torch to a new IE Divisional Chair! Please consider nominating yourself or a colleague for this important position. As I sit in my backyard enjoying the last lingering bits of warm weather, there have yet to be any nominations. The role of Divisional Chair is an important one, in part, because institutional ethnographic scholars from outside our own networks reach out to make connections through the Divisional Chair. This is a wonderful opportunity to connect with and learn from people working with IE all over the world. Having just returned from giving a talk about IE to the WomenÕs Studies Department at the University of Western Ontario, I am struck by a few things: 1. IE remains a radical departure from traditional qualitative research approaches in the social sciences; 2. We need to keep talking about the ways IE approaches and knowledge differ from traditional social science work because otherwise IE continues to be read (and misunderstood) from within the discourses and frames or reference of traditional social scientific research and writing; and 3. Because our studies illuminate modes of social organization Ð Òultimately not of our own making, which give rise to our experienceÓ (Bannerji, 1995), IE remains one of few methods of inquiry, which enable analyses that are practical and useful to the people we claim solidarity with as researchers. While my bias is clear, I am convinced that IE is the most effective way to mediate (and investigate) tensions between our political and academic commitments Ð using our research to do more than meet our tenure and promotion benchmarks. ItÕs almost Canadian Thanksgiving as I write these notes Ð although it will have passed by the time you read them. Nevertheless, I wish you all: bonne fin de semaine! Remembering Seattle A Note from Alison Griffith I would like to thank all those who came to the Divisional Meeting inÊSeattle. As usual, the Meeting was full of surprises as well as plans for next year. This year the Meeting included a round of appreciations for me. A lovely surprise and one that warmed the cockles of my heart.ÊI was pleased and rather taken aback by the nice things people had to say. Thanks again. A moment of joy for me. Alison George W. Smith Student Paper Award Winner This yearÕs winner of the George W. Smith Student Paper Award is Colin Hastings of York University in Toronto. The title of the paper he delivered in Seattle is: The Social Relations of HIV Disclosure in the Context of Criminalization in Canada: Reflections on an Objectifying Discourse. Congratulations Colin! IE Workshop Participants Smiling faces of some of the IE post conference workshop at the Seattle Meetings, 2016. IE Division Chair Call for Nominations TheÊIEÊDivision needs to elect a new Division Chairperson for a two-year term. In 2017, the individual will serve as Incoming Chair and the term will end in 2019. The responsibilities of Division chairpersons include attending a handful of meetings at the annual meeting during your term, disseminating at least oneÊnewsletterÊper year (there is money in the division budget to pay aÊnewsletterÊeditor to do this, and we have an excellentÊIEÊDivisionÊnewsletterÊeditor currently), facilitating the creation of annual meeting session topics for our division, coordinating the division awards by appointing division members to the awards committees, coordinating theÊIEÊworkshop by establishing a workshop committee, and facilitating the annual Divisional meeting at SSSP annual meeting. Our Division needsÊat least two nominees to move forward. ÊWe are looking for nominees at all professional levels, including Assistant Professors and Graduate Students.Ê Please consider nominating yourself for this important role.Ê If you have additional questions about roles and responsibilities, please feel free to email me atÊnaomi.nichols@mcgill.ca If you are interested in nominating yourself or someone else in the Division, please email me directly with your name and your email address byÊFriday November 4th, 2016. The Institutional Ethnography Division is very important to SSSP and to the vitality of Institutional Ethnography as a sociological approach.Ê IE Division Student Paper Award Deadline January 31, 2017 TheÊInstitutional Ethnography DivisionÊsolicits papers for its 2017 George W. Smith Graduate Student Paper Competition.ÊTo be considered, papers should advance institutional ethnography scholarship either methodologically or through a substantive contribution.Ê For an overview of institutional ethnography and the purposes of theÊIEÊDivision, seeÊhttp://www.sssp1.org/index.cfm/pageid/1236/m/464.ÊAuthors must be currently enrolled graduate students or have graduated within the last 12 months.Ê Submissions are to be 25 pages long or less, excluding notes, references and tables, and be submitted in Word-compatible format, in 12-point Times New Roman font.Ê An electronic letter from the studentÕs supervisor attesting to the lead authorÕs student status must accompany the submission. The recipient will receive a monetary prize of $100, a plaque of recognition, student membership, conference registration, and an opportunity to present the winning paper at the 2017 SSSP meetings.ÊThe winner of the 2017 paper will be invited to sit on the adjudicating panel for the 2018 paper submissions.ÊPlease note that any paper submitted for consideration for the George W. Smith Graduate Student Paper Award must also be submitted to be presented at the 2017 meeting of the SSSP. Send submission to ALL of the following members of the 2017 review committee: Samit Bordoloi, diponbordoloi@gmail.com; Lauren Eastwood,Êeastwole@plattsburgh.edu; Colin Hastings, colinjh@yorku.ca.Ê Please be aware that a paper submission may only be submitted to one Division. Activist IE Applied to Create Social and Institutional Change! Since 1997,ÊPraxis InternationalÊhas guided communities in the use of Institutional Analysis (IA) methods to engage in institutional reform on behalf of survivors of violence against women. By focusing on how workers are organized to act on cases, Praxis IA uncovers how complex institutions and systems either meet the needs of or produce negative outcomes in the lives of real, everyday people. Maren Woods, Program Manager and the IA Team at Praxis compiled data to produce theÊInstitutional Analysis Impact Map. The map includes a sampling of communities that have implemented this process in the United States with support from Praxis, Battered WomenÕs Justice Project, Mending the Sacred Hoop, and/or Center for the Study of Social Policy. The methodology has also been applied internationally: Canada, Australia, the United Kingdom, Ireland, and New Zealand. Currently, the map contains the year the project was completed, the projectÕs scope and focus, team membership, and a link to the report (if public). More projects and impact information will be posted as itÕs compiled. Contact us for more information:Êsafetyaudit@praxisinternational.org. Members News and Notes Nichols, Naomi & Jessica Braimoh, (2016). Community safety, housing precariousness and processes of exclusion: An institutional ethnography from the standpoints of youth in an "unsafe" urban neighbourhood.ÊCritical Sociology. doi: 10.1177/0896920516658941Ê Rankin, Janet (2015). The rhetoric of patient and family centred care: an institutional ethnography into what actually happens. Journal of Advanced Nursing 71(3), 526Ð534. doi: 10.1111/jan.12575 Call For Papers Abstract Submission Deadline November 28, 2016 The 38th AnnualÊHawaiiÊSociological Association Conference will be held at Windward Community College on Oahu onÊFeb. 25-26, 2017.ÊThis year`s theme is "Land, Sea, and Food: Sociology and Environmental Change." Submissions are open to all sociological related topics and they do not have to be related to the conference theme. For more information on how to submit and abstract go to: http://www.hawaiisociologicalassociation.org/ IE Papers Published in 2016 A new feature of the Fall IE Newsletter is to compile a list of recent publications involving IE for our members. If you know of any papers, articles or books that you would like to see posted here in future issues, please contact Gina Petonito at petonig@miamioh.edu. Brideson, Genevieve, Eileen Willis, & Diane J. Chamberlain (2016). Images of flight nursing in Australia: A study using institutional ethnography, Nursing and Health Sciences 18, 38Ð43 doi: 10.1111/nhs.12225 Billo, Emily & Alison Mountz (2016). For institutional ethnography: Geographical approaches to institutions and the everyday, Progress in Human Geography 40(2) 199Ð220. doi: 10.1177/0309132515572269 Caspar, Sienna, Pamela A. Ratner, Alison Phinney, & Karen MacKinnon (2016). The Influence of organizational systems on information exchange in long-term care facilities: An institutional ethnography. Qualitative Health Research, 26 (7), 951-965. doi: 10.1177/1049732315619893 Comber, Barbara (2016). Poverty, place and pedagogy in education: Research stories from front-line workers. Australian Educational Researcher 43 (3). doi: 10.1007/s13384-016-0212-9. Dunn, Mary E. (2015). Reclaiming Opportunities for Effective Teaching: An Institutional Ethnographic Study of Community College Course Outlines. New York: Lexington Press. Norstedt, Maria & Janne Paulsen Breimo, (2016). Moving beyond everyday life in institutional ethnographies: Methodological challenges and ethical dilemmas, Forum: Qualitative Social Research17(2), http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:0114-fqs160238. Rosabal-Coto, Guillermo (2016). Costa RicaÕs SINEM: A perspective from postcolonial institutional ethnography. Action, Criticism, and Theory for Music Education 15 (1): 154Ð87. act.maydaygroup.org/articles/RosabalCoto15_1.pdf Talbot, Debra (2016). Evidence for no-one: Standards, accreditation, and transformed teaching work. Teaching and Teacher Education 58: 80-89. Be A SSSP Meeting Mentor A Note from Joel Best Each year, SSSP has lots of students and new members sign up for its meeting mentoring program. But the only way people can offer to be mentors is when they register for the meeting, and itÕs easy for folks to forget to do that, so there arenÕt enough volunteers. Because there arenÕt enough mentors, it is hard to match the interests of willing mentors with people who want mentoring. IÕm chairing the Lee Student Support Fund Committee (the group in charge of the mentoring program).ÊI want to locate willing mentors from all of SSSP divisions.Ê If you are planning to attend next yearÕs meeting in Montreal, and if youÕd be willing to serve as a mentor, please send me an email message (joelbest@udel.edu).ÊIn your message, list the divisions that interest you.ÊIÕll save your information and, next summer, IÕll try and identify (hopefully no more than one or two) mentees who share your interests. IÕve been a mentor every year since the program started, and I continue to keep in touch with some of those people.ÊIt is a great program, but we need your help to make it stronger. Thanks, Joel Best Welcome New Members Fourteen new members have joined the IE Division since the publication of our last newsletter. Welcome all! Jeffrey L. Sternberg Bethany Callan Nelson Karly Ann Burch Eli R. Wilson Elizabeth Whalley Manda Ann Roddick Paula Kelly Erika Ono Michael Shane Casello Marjo Kuronen Doron R. Shiffer-Sebba Shekinah Hoffman Melanie Turner Nerida J. Spina Future SSSP Meetings Planning Ahead 67th Annual Meeting Narratives in the World of Social Problems: Power, Resistance and Transformation August 11-13, 2017 Montreal Bonaventure Hotel Montreal, Quebec Canada 68th Annual Meeting Program Theme: TBD August 10-12, 2018 Sheraton Philadelphia Downtown Hotel Philadelphia, PA 69th Annual Meeting Program Theme: TBD August 9-11, 2019 Roosevelt Hotel New York City, NY