"Pocketing" research data? Ethnographic data production as material theorizing
- We analyze the relations between ethnographic data and theory through an examination of materiality in research practices, arguing that data production is a form of material theorizing. This entails reviewing and (re-)applying practice-theoretical discussions on materiality to questions of ethnography, and moving from understanding theory primarily as ideas to observing theorizing in all steps of research practice. We introduce “pocketing” as a heuristic concept to analyze how and when ethnographic data materializes: the concept defines data’s materiality relationally, through the affective and temporal dimensions of practice. It is discussed using two examples: in a study on everyday architectural experience where ethnographic data materialized as bodies affected by architecture; and in a study on digital cooperation where research data’s materialization was distributed over time according to the use of a company database. By conceptualizing data’s materiality as practice-bound, “pocketing” facilitates understanding the links between data and theory in ethnographic data production.
Author: | Christine Neubert, Ronja Trischler |
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URN: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-569654 |
DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1177/0891241620968262 |
ISSN: | 1552-5414 |
ISSN: | 0891-2416 |
Parent Title (German): | Journal of contemporary ethnography |
Publisher: | Sage Publications |
Place of publication: | London [u.a.] |
Document Type: | Article |
Language: | English |
Date of Publication (online): | 2020/10/31 |
Date of first Publication: | 2020/10/31 |
Publishing Institution: | Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg |
Release Date: | 2021/01/06 |
Tag: | affect; data production; materiality; practice theory; temporality |
Volume: | 50.2021 |
Issue: | 1 |
Page Number: | 21 |
First Page: | 99 |
Last Page: | 119 |
HeBIS-PPN: | 477808409 |
Institutes: | Gesellschaftswissenschaften / Gesellschaftswissenschaften |
Dewey Decimal Classification: | 3 Sozialwissenschaften / 30 Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie / 300 Sozialwissenschaften |
Sammlungen: | Universitätspublikationen |
Licence (German): | ![]() |