Institutional Ethnography and Policy: Critical Intersections

Format: open

This session invites papers informed by Dorothy Smith’s institutional ethnography that contribute to scholarly discourse about the critical analysis of policy, policy processes, and contemporary forms of governance and ruling. Research that orients to policy broadly to include not only matters of state action concerned with social welfare and the redistribution of material resources but also efforts on the part of multiple non-state actors—think tanks, social movements, NGOs, etc.