Institutional Ethnography Newsletter The Institutional Ethnography Division of the Society for the Study of Social Problems Spring/Summer 2019 Volume 16 No. 2 Nicola Waters Division Chair Thompson Rivers University nwaters@tru.ca Send correspondence to: Gina Petonito Correspondence and Copy Editor petonig@muohio.edu Jayne Malenfant Editor jayne.malenfant@mail.mcgill.ca On the Inside - Members News & Notes - IE workshops - Welcome New Members! - New York IE Sessions From the Division Chair: Nicola Waters Hello IE division members, I just did a quick check and it is less than 4 months till the SSSP conference in August. On one hand, IÕm excited that this officially means I may get to enjoy some warm Western Canadian weather soon! On the other it reminds me that another academic year has just flown by! This yearÕs conference theme Illuminating the SOCIAL in Social Problems could have been created just for the IE division and it promises to be an engaging one. We received many abstract submissions and our division will be hosting several sessions some stand-alone and some co-sponsored with other divisions (included in this newsletter). You are also invited to join us at the co-hosted division reception and the IE business meeting. The meeting is an opportunity to learn more about the division and to get more involved. It is also where I will be handing over to LaNysha Adams, 2019-2021 chair elect. Welcome on board LaNysha! We will also be hosting a day-long workshop following the meetings. Highlights of this yearÕs workshop include guest speakers from Praxis International and small group discussions of projects in progress (more on this below). One of the main questions I get asked as division chair is how and where people connect can to discuss IE. We are still working on better ways to boost communication between division members. Due to spam email regulations, we can only contact you directly with updates if you are a current member of the IE division of SSSP. So, we strongly encourage you join or renew. For those who have not yet found us you are also welcome to join our flourishing Facebook page where members seek advice, share successes and generally keep us informed of all things IE. https://www.facebook.com/groups/studentsofinstitutionalethnography/ If social media is not your thing (or if it is!) perhaps we can interest you in sharing your work at the post conference IE workshop in New York. It has become somewhat of a tradition at these events for us to informally solicit work in progress from attendees for our small group sessions. Please consider submitting a chapter, proposal or manuscript you are working on (max 30 pages) and a small group of IE scholars will read and discuss your work with you. All levels of experience welcome to join in this unique opportunity to learn from each other in a no-pressure setting. Please send submissions to clringha@ucalgary.ca. IÕm not going to add a deadline (I promised no pressure!) but the sooner you get it in the more chance there is that yours will be selected! Look forward to connecting with you soon, Warm regards, Nicola Waters, IE Division Chair George W. Smith Graduate Student Paper Competition Announced Hot off the press! We are pleased to announce that Sarah Lewington is this yearÕs recipient of the George W. Smith Graduate Student Paper Competition. Sarah will be presenting her paper entitled "Institutional Ethnography and Critical Race Feminism: Unlocking Institutional Policy" at the SSSP conference in New York. Congratulations Sarah and we look forward to hearing more about your work. Two IE Workshops Drs. Dorothy Smith and Susan Marie Turner are offering May IE workshops in Toronto (OISE/UT). Please register early as these workshops fill quickly. There are only a couple of spots left in the week. 1. 2-Day Working with Institutional Ethnography Workshop (Limit 8) Date: May 6 and 7, 2019 Time: 9:30-5:00 Cost: $450 CDN The 2-Day Workshop translates the formulation of Institutional Ethnography (IE) as a method of inquiry and its approach to language and texts into a research practice for you to use and to know how to explain and justify it to others. The key to doing Institutional Ethnography is grasping its distinct social ontology, central concepts and forms of inquiry and description that makeÊIEÊfundamentally a distinct sociology, and putting them to work.ÊÊUnderstanding language and texts as integral to forms of social organization and howÊIEÊaddresses these in its ethnographic practice, is central.ÊÊThe workshop will be of interest to those wanting to clarify their understanding ofÊIE, and to learn and practice various analytic strategies for incorporating texts. Ê Monday will include presentations by Dorothy and Susan onÊIEÊand its range of practice followed by discussions of topics to concern to IEers as well as topics of concern to you.Ê Ê Preparation We will ask you to do some reading prior to arriving. Dorothy and Susan will be in touch with registrants prior to the weekend with detailed descriptions and information 2. IE Intensive Working Week (Limit 6) Ê ÊÊDate: May 8 Through May 10, 2019 Time: 9:30Ê-Ê5:00 Ê Ê COST: $675 CDN The Intensive offers participants the opportunity to work closely with Dorothy and Susan and with co-participants on your own project. It is a practical working intensive, running daily from 9:30-5:00. Activities comprise group meetings, individual consultations with Dorothy and Susan about your own work, informal conversations and daily discussion sessions. Ê The 3-Day Working Intensive focuses on the specifics of the application of Institutional Ethnography to participantsÕ projects. You can talk about issues, problems, and discoveries in your own project work, in conversation with others think through how to proceed, and discuss your own and the groupÕs in-common questions onÊIEÊmethods and any issues about Institutional Ethnography that have arisen in relation to your project as it is developing.Ê Ê Preparation Participants must have attended a weekend workshop OR have adequate experience with Institutional Ethnography (contact Susan atÊturnersusanm@gmail.com).ÊBring your laptop as you are provided co-working space where you can settle down to work.Ê Ê In advance, you will be asked to write a short informal email to Dorothy and Susan, saying something about what you plan to be working on during the week.ÊÊThis may emerge for you in the 2-Day Workshop May 6-7 if you decide to attend both the 2-Day and the 3-Day. Location for both workshops: Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE), University of Toronto 252 Bloor Street West, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5S 1V6 6th Floor, Faculty of Leadership, Higher and Adult EducationÊ This workshop has prerequisites and requires an application: 1. A previous Workshop taken with Dorothy and Susan or IE experience and preparation and approval of the instructors.Ê 2. A brief description (1page maximum) of your work and what you plan to work on during the week to both Dorothy and Susan. Please do not send proposals, dissertation outlines, literature or published articles. Thank you. Registrations for both workshops will be taken with full payment by e-transfer OR cheque and must be received by APRIL 26TH. Ê If you have questions, please email Susan atÊturnersusanm@gmail.com. Members News and Notes Eric Mykhalovskiy and Viviane Namaste, co-edited a volume Thinking Differently about HIV/AIDS: Contributions from Critical Social Science,Ê(2019) UBC Press. There are three chapters that engage directly with IE:Ê Daniel Grace--Institutional ethnography as a critical research strategy: Access, engagement, and implications for HIV/AIDS research Mark Gaspar--Undetectable optimism: The science of gay male sexual risk-taking and serosorting in the context of uncertain knowledge of viral load Colin Hastings--The social relations of disclosure: Critical reflections on the community-based response to HIV criminalizationÊ The link and relevant info is:ÊÊhttp://www.ubcpress.ca/thinking-differently-about-hivaids Suzanne Vaughn recommends Swedish scholar Maria NorstedtÕs IE work on Òinvisible disabilitiesÓ recently available in English. You can find it here: https://www.sjdr.se/articles/10.16993/sjdr.550/ Agnieska Doll and Kevin Walby published ÒInstitutional ethnography as a method of inquiry for criminal justice and socio-legal studiesÓ in The International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy, Vol 8, (2019) 147-160. https://doi.org/10.5204/ijcjsd.v8i1.1051 Nicole Dalmer has two new publications. The first, published in 2019 is: ÒA logic of choice: Problematizing the documentary reality of Canadian aging in place policies,Ó Journal of Aging Studies, 48, 40-49. The second published in 2018 is: ÒÔAdd info and stirÕ: an institutional ethnographic scoping review of family care-giversÕ information work,Ó Ageing & Society, 1-27. Welcome New Members Ten new members have joined the IE Division since the publication of our last newsletter. Welcome all! Joanne Azevedo Andrew Robert Burns Alexa Rae Ferdinands Emily R. Haire Leslie E. MacColman Shannon Morrissey îrla Meadhbh Murray Aron Lee Rosenberg Hagit Sinai-Glazer Seren Wendelken IE Doctoral Defense Nicole Dalmer defended her PhD thesis in 2018. It is titled: Informing care: Mapping the social organization of familiesÕ information work in an aging in place climate. The University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada. Her IE advisor was Roz Stooke. The thesis is available online at: https://ir.lib.uwo.ca/etd/5948/ IE at Congress 2019 Deborah Dergousoff from the Department of Sociology/Anthropology, Simon Fraser University organized a roundtable at Congress 2019, to be held at the University of British Columbia, June 4-7, 2019. This event is with the Society for Socialist Studies co-sponsored with the Canadian Sociological Association. The Session title is: A Conversation about Accountability Circuits inÊIE. Panelists: Dr. Dorothy Smith Dr. Agnieszka Doll, Post Doctoral Research Fellow, Faculty of Law, McGill University Dr. Nicola Waters, School of Nursing, Thompson Rivers UniversityÊÊ Dr. Charlotte Ross, Dept. of Health Sciences, Simon Fraser UniversityÊÊ Katie Wagner, MA Sociology For more information please contact Deborah Dergousoff at:Êddergous@sfu.ca IE Sessions at SSSP in New York THEMATIC Session: Critical Dialogue: Community-Based Ethnographies Sponsors: Community Research and Development; Institutional Ethnography; Social Problems Theory Organizer & Facilitator: Colin Hastings, York University Papers: ÒÔLock This Whore UpÕ: Information Converging to Circumscribe and Incapacitate Threats to Public Safety in the Canadian Context of HIV Criminalisation,Ó Alexander McClelland, Concordia University ÒEthnographies of Activism and Political Activist Ethnography: Tools for Community-based Research,Ó Devin Clancy, York University ÒGardening and Education for Social Ills,Ó Mitchell McLarnon-Silk, McGill University ÒInstitutional Ethnographies of and in Community-based Research,Ó Naomi Nichols, McGill University and Shivaani Selvaraj, Penn State University ÒInstitutional Ethnography as a Framework for Community-based Indigenous Research,Ó Annelies E. Cooper, York University ÒRelationships and Power: Building an Ethical Framework for Research with and as the Homelessness ÔCommunityÕ,Ó Jayne Malenfant, McGill University and Charlotte Smith, Carelton University ÒThe Hidden Power Structures of AmericaÕs Largest Trade Gateway,Ó Emily H.A. Yen, Trinity College ÒVolunteer Work as Moral and Emotional Labour among Newcomer Mothers in Canada,Ó Camilla Nordberg, University of Helsinki Session: Health Work and Institutional Ethnography Sponsors: Conflict, Social Action, and Change, Institutional Ethnography Organizer & Presider: Matthew JP Strang, York University Papers: ÒDonorwork: The Health Work Living Organ Donors Do,Ó Matthew JP Strang, York University ÒMapping Care: Tracing FamiliesÕ Information Work in Dementia Care,Ó Nicole K. Dalmer, Trent University ÒRare Patient Healthwork in British Columbia,Ó Manda Ann Roddick, University of Victoria ÒThe Business of Managing NursesÕ Recovery from Substance Use Problems: An Institutional Ethnography,Ó Charlotte A. Ross, Simon Fraser University, Sonya L. Jakubec, Mount Royal University, Nicole S. Berry, Simon Fraser University and Victoria Smye, Western University ÒUsing Electronic Health Record Data to Achieve Quality: How Measuring Quality Reorganizes Care Delivery,Ó Rosalie Winslow, University of California, San Francisco Session: Disability and Labor Sponsors: Disability; Institutional Ethnography; Labor Studies Organizers: Jennifer D. Brooks, Syracuse University; Doron Dorfman, Stanford University; Alison Fisher, York University Presider & Discussant: Jennifer D. Brooks, Syracuse University Description: The relationship between disability and labor is complex and multidimensional. Disability can be viewed as both a discursive category, and as a social relation that is actively organized and coordinated through relations of power, similar to race, class, and gender. Thus, disability, as a social category, shapes how individuals both produce and consume labor. Structural and individual-level barriers to the labor market participation of individuals with disabilities have led to their dramatic unemployment/underemployment rates. This lack of participation in the labor market has simultaneously resulted in and maintained the belief that individuals with disabilities are ÔunfitÕ labor producers--furthering their occupational and social segregation. People with disabilities also rely on the labor produced by others (such as caregivers, personal assistants, family members, surrogate mothers, friends, partners, and others) to fully participate in social life. This type of labor is often unpaid and goes unrecognized. To examine the relationship between disability and labor, this session will cover a wide range of topics including: the exploration of structural and individual-level barriers to labor market/economic participation, intersectionality, dilemmas related to consumption of labor, the unpaid/unrecognized nature of care work, workplace experiences (both of people with disabilities as employers and as employees), and how policies and texts* shape the experiences of people with disabilities as both labor producers and consumers. *We define text as both discourses (in the Foucaldian sense) and various other texts (collective agreements, codes of ethics, even mundane Òtexts,Ó such as bus schedules, computer interfaces, etc.). Papers: ÒDisabled and Poor in the Bay Area: How SSI and SSDI Beneficiaries Work around and within Current Labor Incentive Programs,Ó Katie Savin, University of California, Berkeley ÒMicro and Macro Aspects of Disability and the Ethics In-between: Differential ÔDisablingÕ Experiences Associated with Information and Communication Technology, and Political Economic Dimensions of Persons with Disabilities,Ó Dilshan L. Fernando, Clemson University ÒPublic Disability Benefits as Harm Reduction: Income as Part of Complex Care Management,Ó Ariana Thompson-Lastad, University of California, San Francisco, Mark D. Fleming, University of California, Berkeley and University of California, San Francisco, Meredith Van Natta and Sara Rubin, University of California, San Francisco, Irene H. Yen, University of California, Merced and University of California, San Francisco, Janet K. Shim, University of California, San Francisco and Nancy J. Burke, University of California, Merced and University of California, San Francisco ÒSelf-determination in Transportation: The Route to Social Inclusion for People with Disabilities,Ó Jessica A. Murray, The Graduate Center, CUNY Session: Sexual Politics, Abortion, and Health Sponsors: Health, Health Policy, and Health Services, Institutional Ethnography Organizers: Jayne Malenfant, McGill University; Emily Allen Paine, The University of Texas at Austin Presider: Emily Allen Paine, The University of Texas at Austin Papers: ÒChoice and Freedom: Comparing the Messaging of Abortion Funds and Crisis Pregnancy Centers,Ó Melanie Turner, Georgia State University ÒManaging Abortion-related Emotions: A Feminist Perspective,Ó Derek P. Siegel, University of Massachusetts Amherst ÒRoe v. Religion,Ó Toby Lauren Wagner Klein, Brandon L. Crawford and Kristen N. Jozkowski, University of Arkansas ÒRoe v. Wade Knowledge and Beliefs among Latinx US Adults: Examining the Influence of Generation and Language,Ó Alejandra M. Kaplan, Brandon L. Crawford, Danny Valdez and Kristen N. Jozkowski, University of Arkansas Thematic Session: Critical Dialogue: Writing the Social Sponsor: Institutional Ethnography Organizer & Presider: Naomi Nichols, McGill University Papers: ÒAnarchy in the I.E.,Ó Jayne Malenfant, McGill University ÒChallenging Epistemological Privilege: Feminist Reflexivity and Accountability in Text-focused Institutional Ethnography,Ó îrla Meadhbh Murray, University of Edinburgh ÒInvestigating Curricula as Components of Social Organization,Ó Shivaani Selvaraj, Penn State University ÒSocial Media as Theory: An Accessible Collaborative Form of Theory Production,Ó Penny Harvey, Georgia State University ÒTextually-mediated Helping Relationship in Social Work,Ó Hagit Sinai-Glazer, McGill University ÒThe Discursive Organization in ChildrenÕs Social Services of Mothers with ÔTraumaÕ,Ó Erika Ono, University of British Columbia ÒTransformation of Fathering in Contemporary Taiwan: Gender, Class and Social Policy,Ó Wen-hui Anna Tang, National Sun Yat-sen University, Taiwan ÒWriting on Agency and Precariousness: The Case of Domestic Violence in Parc Extension,Ó Emanuel Guay, UniversitŽ du QuŽbec ˆ MontrŽal THEMATIC Session: Illuminating the Social Through Institutional Ethnography Sponsor: Institutional Ethnography Organizer & Presider: Marjorie DeVault, Syracuse University Papers: ÒMaterialist Matters: Revisiting the Social Ontology of Institutional Ethnography,Ó Liza McCoy, University of Calgary ÒWhat I Learned about Canvassing,Ó Paul C. Luken, University of West Georgia and Timothy Diamond, Retired ÒThe Ruling of Weight: An Institutional Ethnographic Exploration of Young PeopleÕs Experiences Growing up in Bodies Labelled as Overweight or Obese,Ó Alexa Rae Ferdinands, Tara-Leigh F. McHugh, Kate Storey and Kim D. Raine, University of Alberta ÒHow Youth Banning Policies Shape the Lived Experiences of Homeless Youth,Ó Cynthia Puddu, MacEwan University ÒOn the Possibilities of an Institutional Ethnography of Noise,Ó Eric Mykhalovskiy, York University Session: New Directions in Institutional Ethnography Sponsor: Institutional Ethnography Organizer & Presider: Gina Petonito, Miami University Papers: ÒMapping Institutional Relations for Local Policy Change: The Case of Lead Poisoning in Syracuse New York,Ó Frank M. Ridzi, Le Moyne College and Central New York Community Foundation ÒLinking Institutional Ethnography with Participatory Visual Methods,Ó Mitchell McLarnon-Silk, McGill University ÒUsing Institutional Ethnography to Advance Implementation Science Research and the Study of Context: Case Study of an Online Sexual Health Service,Ó Daniel Grace, University of Toronto, Oralia G—mez-Ram’rez, British Columbia Centre for Disease Control, Cathy Worthington, University of Victoria, School of Public Health and Social Policy and Mark Gilbert, British Columbia Centre for Disease Control ÒMethodological Innovations in Institutional Ethnography: An Institutional History Approach,Ó Naomi Nichols and Jayne Malenfant, McGill University ÒDear Madame Speaker: I Have Some Concerns Regarding Voting,Ó Paul C. Luken, University of West Georgia Session: Critical Dialogue: Turning It Upside Down: The Power of Race, Culture, and Ethnicity in Youth and Emerging Adulthood Sponsors: Institutional Ethnography; Racial and Ethnic Minorities; Youth, Aging, and the Life Course Organizers: Lauren E. Eastwood, SUNY College at Plattsburgh, Saher Selod, Simmons University Presider: Lauren E. Eastwood, SUNY College at Plattsburgh Papers: ÒBlackness Renegotiated: Second-generation HaitiansÕ Identity Construction in Chicago,Ó Herrica Telus, University of Illinois at Chicago ÒInstitutional Ethnography and Critical Race Feminism: Unlocking Institutional Policy,Ó Sarah Lewington, McGill University, (Winner of the Institutional Ethnography DivisionÕs Student Paper Competition) ÒLove and Care as Youth-led Structural Interventions for Racial Equity,Ó May Lin, University of Southern California ÒNegotiating Social Identities: The Experiences of First, One-And-a-Half, and Second- Generation South Asian Muslims,Ó Fatema Zohara, Loyola University Chicago ÒNo Pork, No Way, No How: Boundaries and Assimilation for Muslim-Americans,Ó Bilal Hussain, Loyola University Chicago ÒScaling Social Movements through Social Media: The Case of Black Lives Matter,Ó Marcia D. Mundt, Karen Ross and Charla M. Burnett, University of Massachusetts, Boston ÒSchool to STEM Corporate Pipeline: Examining High School StudentsÕ Racialized Perceptions of a Computer Science Intervention,Ó Noemi Linares-Ramirez, University of California, Irvine ÒYouth of Color and the Neglecting of Explicit Race-gender Analysis of Criminalization and Health in the Life Course,Ó De AndreÕ T. Beadle, University of Minnesota Session: The Social Organisation of Knowledge Sponsors: Institutional Ethnography, Social Problems Theory Organizer & Presider: Christina D. Weber, North Dakota State University Papers: ÒActivist Teacher Responses to Sexual Assault in Schools: Navigating Competing Risk Discourses to Support Youth Survivors of Sexual Assault,Ó Alison Fisher, York University ÒContested Forms of Knowledge in the Criminal-legal System: Tracing the Evolution of ÔEvidence-based PracticeÕ and Front-line Worker Resistance,Ó Nicole Kaufman, The Ohio State University and Megan Welsh, San Diego State University ÒResistance and Knowledge Production: Social Movements as Producers of Theory and Praxis,Ó Caitlin H. Schroering, University of Pittsburgh ÒThe Missing Memphis School,Ó Ivy Ken, George Washington University ÒWhat Can Whiteness Research Offer the Study of Masculinity?Ó Freeden Blume Oeur, Tufts University, Tristan Bridges, University of California, Santa Barbara and Woody Doane, University of Hartford Session: Reflexivity and the Self in Institutional Ethnography Sponsors: Institutional Ethnography; Sport, Leisure, and the Body Organizer & Presider: Jessica Braimoh, McMaster University Papers: ÒMore Than the Bare Minimum: How White Women Ethnographers Can Avoid Whitewashing Research,Ó Stephanie M. Baran, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee ÒSchool-based Ethnography: Building, Balancing, and (Not) Betraying Trust with Youth,Ó Pavithra Nagarajan, Teachers College, Columbia University, Nora Gross, University of Pennsylvania and Veena Vasudevan, American Museum of Natural History ÒDeath and Institutions: Embodied Experiences of Grief in Participatory Work on Homelessness,Ó Jayne Malenfant, McGill University ÒReconciling with the Religion of My Father,Ó Amir Marvasti, Penn State Altoona ÒThe Self in Autoethnography,Ó Giovanna Follo, Wright State University Session: Identity, Sexuality, and Health Sponsors: Health, Health Policy, and Health Services, Institutional Ethnography Organizers: Jayne Malenfant, McGill University, Emily Allen Paine, The University of Texas at Austin Presider: Jayne Malenfant, McGill University Papers: ÒÔIÕm Having My Fake Period?Õ Experiential and Medical Definitions of Menstruation,Ó Zoe Caplan, Indiana University Bloomington ÒHidden Curriculum in Medical Education on LGBTQ Health,Ó Jessica Lauren Herling, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University ÒMechanisms of Connection: Reproductive Justice and Social Change,Ó Meghan Daniel, University of Illinois at Chicago ÒNo Fats, Femmes or Blacks: The Relationship between Body-type, Gender Performance, and Race on Condom Usage in Online Hookup Profiles,Ó Jesus G. Smith, Lawrence University and Gabriel Amaro, The University of Texas at Austin ÒReproductive Rights on the Margins: WomenÕs Politicization around Reproductive Healthcare Politics,Ó Julisa A. McCoy, University of California, Riverside Institutional Ethnography Workshop Monday, August 12, 10:00amÐ4:00pm, Location: Roosevelt Hotel The Institutional Ethnography Division is hosting an interactive workshop for researchers who use or are interested in institutional ethnography Ð the method of inquiry developed by Dorothy E. Smith. The workshop features a keynote presentation as well as opportunities for large and small-group discussion and learning. The workshop will provide people with opportunities to engage directly with institutional ethnographies in the proposal, analysis, and final writing stages. People who are interested in sharing and receiving feedback on a research proposal, article manuscript, conference paper, or other piece of writing during the small-group discussions should submit these documents to Nicola WatersÊnwaters@tru.caÊand Cathy RinghamÊclringha@ucalgary.caÊby July 1, 2019. Workshop fee includes morning coffee. 3