Institutional ethnography and feminist studies of technoscience

Abstract

This chapter is about doing politics in theory. Specifically, it is about how and what institutional ethnography (IE) and feminist studies of technoscience (FT) allow us to observe. I ask how one might conduct studies that explore normativity, not only in the researcher-author-subject relationship but also in the subject matter (cf. Mol and Mesman 1996). What kinds of (observed) realities might be viewed as politically acceptable?