Date: Saturday, August 8

Time: 2:30 PM - 4:10 PM

Session 057: New Directions in Institutional Ethnography
Room: Broadway II

Sponsor: Institutional Ethnography

Organizer: Katherine E. Koralesky, University of British Columbia

Presider &

Discussant: Lauren Eastwood, SUNY Plattsburgh

Description: 

This session explores innovative applications of Institutional Ethnography (IE) that address contemporary social issues, shifting political contexts, and emerging methodological intersections. Presenters highlight how IE continues to evolve as a critical, justice-oriented sociology for uncovering ruling relations in everyday life.

Papers:

“Everyday Experience, Institutional Context, and Global Learning: The CRIISIS COIL Model,” Hans-Peter de Ruiter, Minnesota State University

“Insulating Public Health Policymaking: Regulatory Counterpower and Lessons from Chile,” A. Susana Ramírez, University of California, Merced

“On the Value of Voting,” Paul Luken, University of West Georgia

“Towards an Institutional Ethnography of Resisting State Violence,” C. Michael Awsumb, Northwest Missouri State University

“When Flexibility isn’t Flexible: How International Graduate Student Motherhood is Institutionally Coordinated,” Fredricka R. Saunders and Laura J. Parson, North Dakota State University

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