Advancing the Value of Ethnography

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#GoingEthno in the Indian Bureaucracy

#GoingEthno in the Indian Bureaucracy

Case Study—Based on experience of working in the Department of School Education, Government of Haryana on a Management Information System being built to reduce administrative workload on teachers and bureaucrats, this case study describes how ethnography was used to understand and address the...

The Calculus of Small Change: An Ethnography of Unlearning

The Calculus of Small Change: An Ethnography of Unlearning

Technological innovation obsolesces not only earlier technologies, but also the knowledge, skills, and expertise of the users of those technologies. Individual obsolescence is generally written off as the cost of participation in a vibrant capitalist economy, a small price to pay and part of the...