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Institutional ethnography as a critical methodology for care organizations

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  • Fabien Hildwein

    (BETA - Bureau d'Économie Théorique et Appliquée - AgroParisTech - UNISTRA - Université de Strasbourg - Université de Haute-Alsace (UHA) - Université de Haute-Alsace (UHA) Mulhouse - Colmar - UL - Université de Lorraine - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique - INRAE - Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement)

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This methodological essay encourages organization scholars to pay attention to institutional ethnography, a rich and critical methodology to study (health)care organizations. Institutional ethnography aims at making the standpoint of invisibilized people at the bottom of organizations matter in science, and at unveiling how institutions influence, transform and constrain everyday life and work, resulting in violent power relations. Reviewing those goals of institutional ethnography reveals the common roots shared between institutional ethnography and care ethics, and how, on this basis, institutional ethnography can serve as a critical methodology for organizations in the care sector or employing care workers. The conclusion suggests avenues for research on alternative organizing and on emancipation through text interpretation.

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  • Fabien Hildwein, 2024. "Institutional ethnography as a critical methodology for care organizations," Post-Print hal-04755989, HAL.
    • Handle: RePEc:hal:journl:hal-04755989
    DOI: 10.48611/isbn.978-2-406-17198-0.p.0151
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