Institutional Ethnography and Surveillance Studies
An Outline for Inquiry
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12729612 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Kevin Walby (0000-0002-5107-2309, Carleton University, corresponding author), Kevin T Walby |
| Year | 2002 |
| Volume | 3 |
| Issue | 2/3 |
| Publication date | 2002-09-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Surveillance & Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1477-7487 • E-ISSN: 1477-7487 |
| Publisher | Surveillance Studies Network (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.24908/ss.v3i2/3.3498 |
| OpenAlex | W1512206981 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 15 |
| References cited | 11 |
Institutional ethnography (IE) is a method of inquiry that problematizes social relations at the local site of lived experience, while examining how sequences of texts coordinate consciousness, actions, and ruling. I argue that institutional ethnography is a critical method of inquiry useful for revealing and reshaping the textual organization of surveillance. Central issues regarding institutional ethnography as a method of inquiry, including standpoint(s), texts and institutions, interviewing, and mapping, are discussed. Researchers studying surveillance would benefit from engaging with the method of institutional ethnography during future research because IE has a unique ability to explicate how surveillance subjects are linked to and managed by discursive, managerial, and professional forms of power
Consciousness · Epistemology · Ethnography · Interview · Power (physics · Social science · Sociology · Anthropology · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Qualitative Research Methods and Ethics · Rhetoric and Communication Studies
Exploring Relations between Watchers and Watched in Control(led) Systems
The Surveillant Simulation of War
The `Surveillance Society
Getting a Quality Education
On the Social Relations of Research
Access to Information and Freedom of Information Requests
Getting at the Live Archive
Surveillance and Ethnography
Cat-and-Mouse Games
Municipal Corporate Security and the Intensification of Urban Surveillance
Ottawa’s National Capital Commission Conservation Officers and the Policing of Public Park Sex
Facebook and the Surveillance Assemblage
The Autonomy Paradox and Performing Dependence—Responsibility and Resistance at an Opioid Substitution Treatment Service
Qui rend lisibles les images
Im/material and intimate relations
The Logic of Writing and the Organization of Society
The iron cage revisited institutional isomorphism and collective rationality in organizational fields
Discipline and Punish
Writing the Social
The Communicational Basis of Organization
The Everyday World as Problematic
Overseeing organizations
Materials for an exploratory theory of the network society1
The surveillant assemblage
Institutional Ethnography and Experience as Data
| Citations per year | 0.63 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2002 - 2025 (24) |
| Highly cited | No |