A M Galazka
Biographic Data
| ID | 56704 |
|---|---|
| NAME | A M Galazka |
| GIVEN NAMES | A M |
| FAMILY NAME | Galazka |
| SIGNATURE | GALAZKA A M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Cardiff University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4376-1980 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Managing stigma together: Relationality in the wound clinic
Our paper contributes to studies of stigma and dirty work by asking ‘how can workers and clients of dirty work manage stigma together?’ With the purpose of appreciating the worker/client relational dynamics in an organisation characterised by stigma, we conducted an ethnography in a wound healing clinic where clinicians do the dirty work of caring for patients with socially stigmatising wounds. To guide and subsequently interpret our ethnographic…
Alvarez, W. (2022). Everyday Dirty Work: Invisibility, Communication, and Immigrant Labor
Introducing “navigating failure in ethnography”: A forum about failure in ethnographic research
Purpose The authors introduce a recurrent section for the Journal of Organizational Ethnography which scrutinizes the various manifestations and roles of failure in ethnographic research. Design/methodology/approach The authors peruse a wide body of literature which tackles the role of failure in ethnographic research and draw on the experiences to argue for a more sustained and in-depth conversation on the topic. Findings “Failure” regularly occ…
Field, place or space? A carnal ethnography of a therapeutic space-construct
Purpose In advancing the academic discourse around the theory of field, place and space in ethnographic research, this paper proposes a carnal sociological reading of the meaning and form of the Lindsay Leg Clubs – third-sector community leg care centres for older adults with leg problems – as a therapeutic space-construct. Design/methodology/approach The paper draws on non-formulaic, polymorphic ethnographic research in the UK Lindsay Leg Clubs …
The Socio-Materiality of Dirty Work: A Critical Realist Perspective
New materialist applications in 'dirty work' studies have rightly emphasised the importance of materiality alongside symbolism. However, these approaches have neglected important themes irreducible to the material world, such as temporality, reflexivity and social structure. This article develops an alternative critical realist perspective on socio-materiality in dirty work which emphasises these themes. It draws on 2016-2017 ethnographic data on…
Realist evaluation of social outcomes in community care: The application of affordance theory to the Lindsay Leg Clubs
This study uses a scientific realist methodology to explain how social outcomes of community care interventions are produced, sustained and contextually dependent. We evaluate an organization dedicated to wound care and leg health known as the Lindsay Leg Club network, so far studied mostly from a phenomenological perspective, to demonstrate the generative role of places where Leg Clubs are located, with objects in their environment, and people w…
From 'dirty wound care' to 'woundology: A professional project for wound healing clinicians
This article explores the professional project for an emergent subaltern specialist community of wound healing clinicians. Drawing on the literature on professions and boundary work, it examines how wound healing clinicians challenge the perception of their work as 'dirty' and seek its transformation into a specialism of 'woundology'. The article is based on an ethnography of a UK multidisciplinary team of doctors and nurses with an interest and …
The Socio-Materiality of Dirty Work: A Critical Realist Perspective
New materialist applications in 'dirty work' studies have rightly emphasised the importance of materiality alongside symbolism. However, these approaches have neglected important themes irreducible to the material world, such as temporality, reflexivity and social structure. This article develops an alternative critical realist perspective on socio-materiality in dirty work which emphasises these themes. It draws on 2016-2017 ethnographic data on…
From 'dirty wound care' to 'woundology: A professional project for wound healing clinicians
This article explores the professional project for an emergent subaltern specialist community of wound healing clinicians. Drawing on the literature on professions and boundary work, it examines how wound healing clinicians challenge the perception of their work as 'dirty' and seek its transformation into a specialism of 'woundology'. The article is based on an ethnography of a UK multidisciplinary team of doctors and nurses with an interest and …
Realist evaluation of social outcomes in community care: The application of affordance theory to the Lindsay Leg Clubs
This study uses a scientific realist methodology to explain how social outcomes of community care interventions are produced, sustained and contextually dependent. We evaluate an organization dedicated to wound care and leg health known as the Lindsay Leg Club network, so far studied mostly from a phenomenological perspective, to demonstrate the generative role of places where Leg Clubs are located, with objects in their environment, and people w…
From 'dirty wound care' to 'woundology: A professional project for wound healing clinicians
This article explores the professional project for an emergent subaltern specialist community of wound healing clinicians. Drawing on the literature on professions and boundary work, it examines how wound healing clinicians challenge the perception of their work as 'dirty' and seek its transformation into a specialism of 'woundology'. The article is based on an ethnography of a UK multidisciplinary team of doctors and nurses with an interest and …
Alvarez, W. (2022). Everyday Dirty Work: Invisibility, Communication, and Immigrant Labor
Introducing “navigating failure in ethnography”: A forum about failure in ethnographic research
Purpose The authors introduce a recurrent section for the Journal of Organizational Ethnography which scrutinizes the various manifestations and roles of failure in ethnographic research. Design/methodology/approach The authors peruse a wide body of literature which tackles the role of failure in ethnographic research and draw on the experiences to argue for a more sustained and in-depth conversation on the topic. Findings “Failure” regularly occ…
Field, place or space? A carnal ethnography of a therapeutic space-construct
Purpose In advancing the academic discourse around the theory of field, place and space in ethnographic research, this paper proposes a carnal sociological reading of the meaning and form of the Lindsay Leg Clubs – third-sector community leg care centres for older adults with leg problems – as a therapeutic space-construct. Design/methodology/approach The paper draws on non-formulaic, polymorphic ethnographic research in the UK Lindsay Leg Clubs …
The Socio-Materiality of Dirty Work: A Critical Realist Perspective
New materialist applications in 'dirty work' studies have rightly emphasised the importance of materiality alongside symbolism. However, these approaches have neglected important themes irreducible to the material world, such as temporality, reflexivity and social structure. This article develops an alternative critical realist perspective on socio-materiality in dirty work which emphasises these themes. It draws on 2016-2017 ethnographic data on…
Managing stigma together: Relationality in the wound clinic
Our paper contributes to studies of stigma and dirty work by asking ‘how can workers and clients of dirty work manage stigma together?’ With the purpose of appreciating the worker/client relational dynamics in an organisation characterised by stigma, we conducted an ethnography in a wound healing clinic where clinicians do the dirty work of caring for patients with socially stigmatising wounds. To guide and subsequently interpret our ethnographic…
Sociology (7 works) · Epistemology (4 works) · Medicine (4 works) · Anthropology (3 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Ethnography (3 works) · Management and Organizational Studies (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Social science (3 works)