TY  - JOUR
A1  - Neubert, Christine
A1  - Trischler, Ronja
T1  - "Pocketing" research data? Ethnographic data production as material theorizing
T2  - Journal of contemporary ethnography
N2  - 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.
KW  - materiality
KW  - data production
KW  - practice theory
KW  - affect
KW  - temporality
Y1  - 2020
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/56965
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-569654
SN  - 1552-5414
SN  - 0891-2416
VL  - 50.2021
IS  - 1
SP  - 99
EP  - 119
PB  - Sage Publications
CY  - London [u.a.]
ER  -