TY - JOUR

T1 - Doing a transversal method

T2 - developing an ethics of care in a collaborative research project

AU - Scheel, Stephan

AU - Grommé, Francisca

AU - Ruppert, Evelyn

AU - Ustek-Spilda, Funda

AU - Cakici, Baki

AU - Takala, Ville

N1 - Publisher Copyright: © 2019 The Authors. Global Networks published by Global Networks Partnership and John Wiley & Sons Ltd

PY - 2020/7/1

Y1 - 2020/7/1

N2 - Beck and Sznaider call on ‘methodological cosmopolitanism’ to transcend methodological nationalism and account for an increasingly cosmopolitanized reality. We take up their challenge by drawing on our experiences of conducting a collaborative ethnography of methodological changes in the production of population statistics within and between European national and international statistical institutes. Drawing on debates in science and technology studies, we depart from some conceptual presuppositions of methodological cosmopolitanism to define a ‘transversal method’. Referring to this method as performative and ontopolitical, we reflect on how it requires collaboration and, in our ethnography, gave rise to three practical challenges – (1) going beyond the individual project; (2) using each other's field notes; (3) and working against the national order of things. To meet these challenges, we reflect on how this method required us to practise three modes of care – thinking with others, tinkering with field notes, and dissenting within.

AB - Beck and Sznaider call on ‘methodological cosmopolitanism’ to transcend methodological nationalism and account for an increasingly cosmopolitanized reality. We take up their challenge by drawing on our experiences of conducting a collaborative ethnography of methodological changes in the production of population statistics within and between European national and international statistical institutes. Drawing on debates in science and technology studies, we depart from some conceptual presuppositions of methodological cosmopolitanism to define a ‘transversal method’. Referring to this method as performative and ontopolitical, we reflect on how it requires collaboration and, in our ethnography, gave rise to three practical challenges – (1) going beyond the individual project; (2) using each other's field notes; (3) and working against the national order of things. To meet these challenges, we reflect on how this method required us to practise three modes of care – thinking with others, tinkering with field notes, and dissenting within.

KW - CARE

KW - COLLABORATION

KW - COSMOPOLITANISM

KW - ETHNOGRAPHY

KW - ONTOPOLITICAL

KW - PERFORMATIVITY

KW - TRANSVERSAL METHOD

KW - Sociology

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85071777773&partnerID=8YFLogxK

U2 - 10.1111/glob.12263

DO - 10.1111/glob.12263

M3 - Journal articles

AN - SCOPUS:85071777773

VL - 20

SP - 522

EP - 543

JO - Global Networks

JF - Global Networks

SN - 1470-2266

IS - 3

ER -