Using IE for Social Justice in Socio-Legal Studies and Related Fields
Using IE for Social Justice in Socio-Legal Studies and Related Fields
Thursday, 10 July 2025: 19:00-20:30
Location: FSE011 (Faculty of Education Sciences (FSE))
WG06 Institutional Ethnography (host committee) Language: English
The application of Institutional Ethnography – a critical sociological approach developed by Dorothy Smith – concerns, mainly, the field of education and health. Its use is less frequent in socio-legal studies and related field (e.g., criminology, sociology of deviance, international relations, etc.).
This session includes contributions which develop a critical examination of the status quo of the application of IE to socio-legal studies and related fields, and offer different empirical, theoretical, and methodological perspectives on the potential of IE for social justice.
This session hosts papers which focus on classical institutional ethnographies or studies inspired by institutional ethnography that highlight people’s needs when they have experience of the justice system and agencies and organizations that gravitate around the justice system. Moreover, this session hosts papers that contribute to the analysis of national and international policies, and different forms of oppressions and hegemonies.
These studies show the potential of Institutional Ethnography to pursue and achieve institutional change and social justice at the level of the justice, administrative and political systems.
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Oral Presentations