10th Ethnography and Qualitative Research International Conference

July 9 + 10-12, 2025 – University of Trento

gender

  • 21. Examining the controversial social space of female genitals.

    ConvenorsFederica Manfredi, University of Torinofederica.manfredi@unito.it Raffaella Ferrero Camoletto, University of Torinoraffaella.ferrerocamoletto@unito.it Women’s sexuality, and the bodily representations and practices experienced, have known relevant changes since the second half of the XX century, in the direction of an increased acknowledgment of women’s sexual subjectivities (Bertone et al., 2011).  Notwithstanding this change of cultural scenario, apart from…

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  • 24. Institutional Ethnography: Researching for social change.

    ConvenorsMorena Tartari, Northumbria Universitymorena.tartari@northumbria.ac.uk Órla Meadhbh Murray, Northumbria Universityorla.murray@northumbria.ac.uk Institutional Ethnography (IE) is a sociological approach to research developed by the Canadian sociologist Dorothy Smith (1926-2022) (Smith, 1987, 1990a, 1990b, 2005; Smith, Griffith, 2022). It is a well-established research approach in Canada and the US, with more recent networks of scholars emerging in the Nordic…

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