Doing a transversal method: developing an ethics of care in a collaborative research project
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In: Global Networks, Vol. 20, No. 3, 01.07.2020, p. 522-543.
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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
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UR - https://www.mendeley.com/catalogue/22f27eec-d541-308e-a2d3-f35dedf38202/
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 -