Kamini Maraj Grahame
Biographic Data
| ID | 298567 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kamini Maraj Grahame |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kamini Maraj |
| FAMILY NAME | Grahame |
| SIGNATURE | GRAHAME K M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Pennsylvania State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 29 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Institutional Ethnography
Institutional ethnography (IE) is an approach to sociological inquiry associated with the work of the internationally recognized Canadian social theorist Dorothy E. Smith. Studies in institutional ethnography involve developing a problematic that explores how individuals' experiences in the everyday world are shaped by wider social relations. Local experience serves as the point of departure for studying relations of power within institutional co…
Understanding Food Access in a Rural Community: An Ecological Perspective
This paper is a mixed-method, in-depth study of how poor adults in a rural Pennsylvania community experience their environment as a food desert. Open-ended interviews and questionnaires were used to determine food purchasing and consumption practices as well as some of the health issues that individuals experienced. The open-ended format allowed participants to identify multiple factors influencing food access—transportation, inadequate social se…
The Bangladeshi Diaspora in the United States After 9/11: From Obscurity to High Visibility
Institutional ethnography
The term “institutional ethnography” has been used since 1987 to refer to an approach to social inquiry pioneered by Canadian sociologist Dorothy E. Smith (Campbell & DeVault 2011; Smith 1987). By the 1980s, Smith had become known internationally for studies in the social organization of knowledge with roots in the women's movement, Marx, phenomenology, and ethnomethodology. The central concerns of this approach included beginning with the standp…
Points of Departure: Insiders, Outsiders, and Social Relations in Caribbean Field Research
Shifting Arrangements: Indo-Trinidadian Women, Globalization, and the Restructuring of Family Life
This article focuses on the changing relationships between East-Indian daughters-in-law and mothers-in-law in a developing society: Trinidad, West Indies. Changes in how families are structured are seen as active responses to processes of globalization. While these changes have provided younger women with opportunities to resist older arrangements, their responses have in turn created new problems that remain unresolved. I argue that these famili…
Family Diversity and the Discursive Construction of Difference: Problems and Possibilities
For the Family: Asian Immigrant Women's Triple Day
This article examines how Asian immigrant women manage the demands of family,job training, and paid work in their new society. Using institutional ethnography, a feminist research strategy developed by Dorothy Smith, the study begins with the women's experiences to explore the extended social relations which give shape to them. The study argues that among those extended relations are the organization of the labor market in the contemporary period…
Institutional Ethnography
Feminist Organizing and the Politics of Inclusion
Asian Women, Job Training and the Social Organization of Immigrant Labor Markets
Asian Women, Job Training and the Social Organization of Immigrant Labor Markets
For the Family: Asian Immigrant Women's Triple Day
This article examines how Asian immigrant women manage the demands of family,job training, and paid work in their new society. Using institutional ethnography, a feminist research strategy developed by Dorothy Smith, the study begins with the women's experiences to explore the extended social relations which give shape to them. The study argues that among those extended relations are the organization of the labor market in the contemporary period…
Understanding Food Access in a Rural Community: An Ecological Perspective
This paper is a mixed-method, in-depth study of how poor adults in a rural Pennsylvania community experience their environment as a food desert. Open-ended interviews and questionnaires were used to determine food purchasing and consumption practices as well as some of the health issues that individuals experienced. The open-ended format allowed participants to identify multiple factors influencing food access—transportation, inadequate social se…
Feminist Organizing and the Politics of Inclusion
Points of Departure: Insiders, Outsiders, and Social Relations in Caribbean Field Research
Feminist Organizing and the Politics of Inclusion
Asian Women, Job Training and the Social Organization of Immigrant Labor Markets
Institutional Ethnography
For the Family: Asian Immigrant Women's Triple Day
This article examines how Asian immigrant women manage the demands of family,job training, and paid work in their new society. Using institutional ethnography, a feminist research strategy developed by Dorothy Smith, the study begins with the women's experiences to explore the extended social relations which give shape to them. The study argues that among those extended relations are the organization of the labor market in the contemporary period…
Family Diversity and the Discursive Construction of Difference: Problems and Possibilities
Shifting Arrangements: Indo-Trinidadian Women, Globalization, and the Restructuring of Family Life
This article focuses on the changing relationships between East-Indian daughters-in-law and mothers-in-law in a developing society: Trinidad, West Indies. Changes in how families are structured are seen as active responses to processes of globalization. While these changes have provided younger women with opportunities to resist older arrangements, their responses have in turn created new problems that remain unresolved. I argue that these famili…
Points of Departure: Insiders, Outsiders, and Social Relations in Caribbean Field Research
Institutional ethnography
The term “institutional ethnography” has been used since 1987 to refer to an approach to social inquiry pioneered by Canadian sociologist Dorothy E. Smith (Campbell & DeVault 2011; Smith 1987). By the 1980s, Smith had become known internationally for studies in the social organization of knowledge with roots in the women's movement, Marx, phenomenology, and ethnomethodology. The central concerns of this approach included beginning with the standp…
The Bangladeshi Diaspora in the United States After 9/11: From Obscurity to High Visibility
Understanding Food Access in a Rural Community: An Ecological Perspective
This paper is a mixed-method, in-depth study of how poor adults in a rural Pennsylvania community experience their environment as a food desert. Open-ended interviews and questionnaires were used to determine food purchasing and consumption practices as well as some of the health issues that individuals experienced. The open-ended format allowed participants to identify multiple factors influencing food access—transportation, inadequate social se…
Institutional Ethnography
Institutional ethnography (IE) is an approach to sociological inquiry associated with the work of the internationally recognized Canadian social theorist Dorothy E. Smith. Studies in institutional ethnography involve developing a problematic that explores how individuals' experiences in the everyday world are shaped by wider social relations. Local experience serves as the point of departure for studying relations of power within institutional co…
Sociology (10 works) · Ethnography (7 works) · Anthropology (6 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Social science (5 works) · Epistemology (4 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Law (3 works)