The Palgrave Handbook of Institutional Ethnography

lt;p>Paul C. Luken is Associate Professor Emeritus of Sociology at the University of West Georgia, USA, where he taught graduate-level courses on IE. He has helped to draw together IE scholars in multiple contexts, from special issues of journals such as The Journal of Sociology and Social Welfare, to the co-founding of the Institutional Ethnography Division of the Society for Study of Social Problems and the ISA Working Group on Institutional Ethnography of the International Sociological Association.

Suzanne Vaughan is Associate Professor Emeritus of Sociology in the School of Social and Behavioral Sciences at Arizona State University, USA, where she taught undergraduate and graduate classes in institutional ethnography. She is a co-founder and Secretary-Treasurer of the Working Group on Institutional Ethnography of the ISA. She has co-authored numerous journal articles on the institutional ethnography of housing, including in the journals Social Problems and Social Forces, and has co-edited a special issue of The Journal of Sociology and Social Welfare.

Chapter 1: Introduction / Institutional Ethnography: Sociology for Today, Paul C. Luken .- Part 1: Exploring Historical and Ontological Foundations.- Chapter 2: Elements of an Expansive Institutional Ethnography: A Conceptual History of its North American Origins, Marjorie L. Devault.- Chapter 3: Materialist Matters: A Case for Revisiting the Social Ontology of Institutional Ethnography, Liza McCoy.- Chapter 4: Teaching Institutional Ethnography as an Alternative Sociology, Eric Mykhalovsky, Colin Hastings, Leigha Comer, Julia Gruson-Wood, and Mathew Strang.- Chapter 5: Exploring Institutional Words as People's Practices, Dorothy E. Smith.- Part 2: Developing Strategies and Exploring Challenges.- Chapter 6: Mapping Ruling Relations: Advancing the Use of Visual Methods in Institutional Ethnography, Nikole K. Dalmer.- Chapter 7: Discovering the Social Organization of Perinatal Care for Women Living with HIV: Reflections from a Novice Institutional Ethnographer, Allyson Ion.- Chapter 8: IE and Visual Research Methods: An Open-ended Discussion, Morena Tartari.- Chapter 9: And Then There Was Copyright, Suzanne Vaughan.- Chapter 10: Invoking Work Knowledge: Exploring the Social Organization of Producing Gender Studies, Rebecca W.B. Lund.- Chapter 11: Teaching Institutional Ethnography to Undergraduate Students, Kathryn Church.- Part 3: Explicating Global/Transnational Ruling Relations.- Chapter 12: Using Institutional Ethnography to Investigate Intergovernmental Environmental Policy Making, Lauren E. Eastwood.- Chapter 13: Regulating the Duty to Consult: Exploring the Textually-Mediated Nature of Indigenous Dispossession in Chile, Magdalena Ugarte.- Chapter 14: Transnational Power Relations in Education: How it Works Down South, Nerida Spina and Barbara Comber.- Chapter 15: The Struggle for 'Survival' in Contemporary Higher Education: The Lived Experiences of Junior Academics, Li-Fang and Yu-Hsuan Lin.- Part 4: Making Change within Communities.- Chapter 16: Building Change On and Off Reserve: Six Nations of the Grand River Territory, Susan Marie Turner and Julia Bomberry.- Chapter 17: Mapping Institutional Relations for Local Policy Change: The Case of Lead Poisoning in Syracuse, New York, Frank Ridzi.- Chapter 18: The Institutional Analysis: Matching What Institutions Do with What Works for People, Ellen Pence.- Part 5: Critiquing Public Sector Management Regimes.- Chapter 19: Professional Talk: Unpacking Professional Language, Ann Christin E. Nilsen.- Chapter 20: The Frontline Interpretive Work of Activating the Americans with Disabilities Act, Eric Rodtiguez.- Chapter 21: Contested Forms of Knowledge in the Criminal-Legal System: Evidence-Based Practice and Other Ways of Knowing among Frontline Workers, Nicole Kaufman and Megan Welsh.- Chapter 22: Public Protection as a Ruling Concept in the Management of Nurses' Substance Use, Charlotte A. Ross.- Chapter 23: Producing Functional Equivalency in Video Relay Service, Jeremy L. Brunson.- Part 6: Bringing Together Different Approaches and Perspectives.- Chapter 24: Using Composites to Craft Institutional Ethnographic Accounts, Michael Corman.- Chapter 25: Attending to Messy Troubles of the Anthropocene with Institutional Ethnography and Material Semiotics: The Case for Vital Institutional Ethnography, Karly Burch.- Chapter 26: Institutional Ethnography for Social Work, Gerald de Montigny.- Chapter 27: Institutional Ethnography and Youth Participatory Action Research: A Praxis Approach, Naomi Nichols and Jessica Ruglis.