In recent years, many critically oriented International Relations (IR) scholars adopted Michel Foucault’s concept of ‘governmentality’ as a diagnostic device through which to diagnose relations of power operating at national, international, and global levels. However, the study of governmentality in IR has a tendency to ally itself with the omniscient viewpoint of the administrator by focusing ...

BACKGROUND Qualitative methods are an important part of the primary care researcher's toolkit providing a nuanced view of the complexity in primary care reform and delivery. Ethnographic research is a comprehensive approach to qualitative data collection, including observation, in-depth interviews and document analysis. Few studies have been published outlining methodological issues related to ...

Information Systems (IS) has developed through adapting, generating and applying diverse methodologies, methods, and techniques from reference disciplines. Further, Action Design Research (ADR) has recently developed as a broad research method that focuses on designing and redesigning IT and IS in organizational contexts. This paper reflects on applying ADR in a complex organizational context i...

This paper is based on an ongoing ethnography of a GLBT (gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender) guild in the MMOG World of Warcraft. Drawing on queer/feminist theory, the argument concentrates on sexuality as resource for ‘transgressive play’. The notion of transgressive play is usually taken to mean play against the ‘ideal’ or ‘implied’ player of the game, of playing the game in ways not anticip...

This paper reports on the development of a transferable method for the evaluation of community based ICT initiatives. It is, in essence, a combination of ethnographic approaches with action research. The method was developed following an evaluation of a rural ICT project in Sri Lanka and is now being applied to nine projects across South Asia. In this paper we will describe the initial evaluati...

Ethnography is a qualitative research design that has relevance for clinical research in occupational therapy. The ethnographic approach is illustrated in the present paper through a description of how it could be used to investigate the effectiveness of an occupational therapy leisure intervention with stroke survivors. This paper contrasts ethnography with a randomized clinical trial design a...