Date: Sunday, August 11

Time: 8:30 AM - 10:10 AM

Session 087: Ethnography/Institutional Ethnography and the Environment
Room: Lamartine

Sponsors: Environment and Technology
Institutional Ethnography

Organizers: Lauren Eastwood, SUNY Plattsburgh
Haisu Huang, William and Mary

Presider: Lauren Eastwood, SUNY Plattsburgh

Description: 

This session presents critical work from India, Canada, and the US, using ethnographic methods to understand societal and environmental interactions. Issues in this session cover community organizing, institutional violence in healthcare, climate disasters, in both rural and urban setting, on both the institutional and individual levels. 

Papers:

“‘Re-emergence of the Commons’: How Central Pennsylvania Communities Find Support and a Voice through Community Gardening,” Andrew Thomas Silliker, The Pennsylvania State University

“Connecting the Social with the Environmental: Bringing Institutional Ethnography into Conversation with Urban Political Ecology,” Mitchell McLarnon, Concordia University

“How Place Matters in Disaster Survivors’ Journey Back Home: An Ethnographic Study of the 2020 Holiday Farm Fire,” Haisu Huang, William and Mary

“Interrogating Power and Politics in Community Development Partnerships: The Case of a Grassroots Community Based Organization in Rural Rajasthan, India,” Prerna Rana, University of Wisconsin Madison

“Violent Space: An Institutional Ethnography on Emergency Nurse Work in a Radically Redesigned Department,” Sophie Pomerleau, CISSS de la Montérégie-Est

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