This chapter deals with the study of how deaf and hearing signers, and others, understand sign languages by themselves and in relationship to other languages and modalities. By doing linguistic ethnography, it is possible to investigate these language attitudes and ideologies as they unfold in everyday …

Citizens have responded to newcomers in the Netherlands with acts of solidarity and programmes to support integration, often in response to increasingly restrictive government policies. In a previously published study by the primary author, a critical discourse analysis was conducted of texts used in …

Sacred Harp komt voort uit de Amerikaanse protestants-christelijke koormuziek en beleeft sinds enige decennia een revival buiten de kerk om. Levin Stein onderzocht bij zanggroepen in Amsterdam en Bremen wat mensen beweegt om zich over te geven aan deze muziek. Zijn conclusie is dat ze in de muziek een …

The values of patient autonomy and community participation have become central in health care. However, care practices involve a plurality of possibly conflicting values. These values often transgress the borders of the individual professional–client relationship as they involve family members, other …

The aim of this study is to unpack the value of ethnographic research as a relevant methodology for studying and developing new business models. A pop-up store we ran for three months in 2020 served as a testlab to experiment with value creation around buying, swapping and borrowing secondhand …

In this chapter on makers, the authors provide a critical overview of the different cultures of making, their motivations as well as the socio technical infrastructures that encourage these forms of peer production. They draw on a growing body of scholarship on making and hacking in the social sciences, …

In the project “Fieldlabs, 21st Century community care”, directed by ROC of Amsterdam, 17 partners in care, education, local authorities, technology providers and research institutes collaborate in the Amsterdam region. Fieldlabs aims to innovate education in care, in order to make it ‘21st century proof’. …

While live event experiences have become increasingly mediatized, the prevalence of ephemeral content and diverse forms of (semi)private communication in social media platforms have complicated the study of these mediatized experiences as an outsider. This article proposes an ethnographic approach to …

Iedereen die mij kent weet dat ik een kletskous ben. Echt waar, ik zit vaak op de spreekstoel en geniet van de aandacht. In mijn werk draagt het bij aan goed kunnen kletsen met cliënten en presenteren aan groepen, maar hobbymatig heb ik er nog nooit iets mee gedaan. Toen kwam mijn onderzoek van een jaar …

Introduction of the special issue ‘Exploring the multilingual family repertoire: ethnographic approaches'.