“Now and then, out of the wearying mass of ethnographic ‘data’ ... something would catch our attention, usually in a project meeting, and start to form itself into an example. It is hard to describe how this happens... One way to describe its beginnings would be as a kind of glow: some detail — a fieldnote fragment or video image — starts to glimmer, gathering our attention.” (Maggie MacLure, 2010...
“Now and then, out of the wearying mass of ethnographic ‘data’ ... something would catch our attention, usually in a project meeting, and start to form itself into an example. It is hard to describe how this happens... One way to describe its beginnings would be as a kind of glow: some detail — a fi...
September 30, 2025