EMER Network – Workshop 2 online 2023

Everyday resistances in the Nordic welfare state: Exploring the methodological potential of Institutional Ethnography (EMER).

Welcome to this second workshop, which will take place online. The workshop is titled "Studying everyday resistances among welfare service users - Forms of resistances, theory, and ethics", and is organised by the University of Jyväskylä, Finland. It will take place on the 9th and 10th February 2023.

Responsible organiser: Marjo Kuronen 

Participants should have received an invitation via email. If not, please contact the responsible organiser. Please note that there will be separate Zoom links for both days.

Below is the schedule, please note that times are Finnish times, meaning one hour earlier in other Nordic countries.

Thursday 9th February, 10.30 – 17.00

10.30-11.00 Welcome, Introduction, and Programme of our Workshop. Marjo & Majken.

11.00-13.00 Resistances of different groups - Empirical experiences and examples. Discussion on this topic in four breakout rooms. Coming back together and sharing. WG1 members, and Satu as facilitator. (15min break after the breakout rooms).

13.00-14.00 Lunch break.

14.00-15.00 Discussion on actions for cooperation. Co-creating programme for a mid-term workshop 2,5. Eamonn McCallion.

15.00-15.30 Break.

15.30-17.00 Institutional Ethnography -- Research as, for, and about resistance. Professor/Canada Research Chair Naomi Nichols, Trent University. Breakout rooms for preparing comments and questions. Discussion – facilitated by WG3 members and Majken. (15min break between the lecture and breakout rooms).

Friday 10th February, 10.00 – 16.00

10.00-11.15 How to talk about resistances and resisters in a respectful way - Ethical issues concerning language use. Majken. Breakout rooms. Joint discussion.

11.15-11.30 Break

11.30-12.30 Different funding options for future cooperation. Anu Tiilikainen-Tervaniemi, JYU Research and Innovation Services, and Eamonn McCallion, Grants and Innovation Office, Karlstad University.

12.30-13.30 Lunch break

13.30-15.00 Theoretical tensions and potentials between IE and resistance studies. Breakout Rooms. Joint discussion. Facilitated by WG2 members. (15min break in the middle).

15.00-16.00 How to provide continuity to the next workshop. Eamonn McCallion.
Concluding words. Majken and Marjo

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Please read in advance (attached in invitation and available in Box): 

• Nichols, Naomi (2016) Investigating the social relations of human service provision: Institutional ethnography and activism. Journal of Comparative Social Work, 11(1), 38–63. https://doi.org/10.31265/jcsw.v11i1.135
• Nichols, Naomi & Jessica Ruglis (2021) Institutional Ethnography and Youth Participatory Action Research: A Praxis Approach. In P. C. Luken and S. Vaughan (eds.) The Palgrave Handbook of Institutional Ethnography, pp. 527-550. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-54222-1_27

Please also re-read the book chapter from our reading list already for the first workshop:

• Sørensen, Majken Jul, Nilsen, Ann Christin E. & Lund, Rebecca W. B. “Resisting the ruling relations: Discovering everyday resistance with Institutional Ethnography”. In Nilsen, Ann Christin E. & Lund, Rebecca W. B Institutional Ethnography in the Nordic region. Routledge 2020, pages 203-213.