Outputs (4)

Ethnography in the plural: Experimenting with collective ethnography in research on politics and politicians in Brazil (2025)
Journal Article
Cornwall, A., Hoyler, T., Crewe, E., & Bernardes, C. (online). Ethnography in the plural: Experimenting with collective ethnography in research on politics and politicians in Brazil. Ethnography, https://doi.org/10.1177/14661381251357507

Developments in qualitative research have increasingly recognized the value of modes of ethnographic inquiry that go beyond the conventional model of the lone ethnographer. Many examples involve parallel, collaborative enquiry in which ethnographers... Read More about Ethnography in the plural: Experimenting with collective ethnography in research on politics and politicians in Brazil.

A neo-complexity orientation to action research: perspectives on unpredictability and ethics (2025)
Journal Article
Solsø, K., Crewe, E., & Chauhan, K. (2025). A neo-complexity orientation to action research: perspectives on unpredictability and ethics. International Journal of Action Research, 21(1), 43-58. https://doi.org/10.3224/ijar.v21i1.04

The influence of complexity theory on action research scholarship and practice has been kaleidoscopic. Further integrating ideas derived from the complexity sciences could enrich this research tradition, but there are choices to be made about what to... Read More about A neo-complexity orientation to action research: perspectives on unpredictability and ethics.

Strategic ignorance and interests in the UK Parliament: the case of Transatlantic African Trafficking and Chattel Enslavement (2025)
Journal Article
Crewe, E. (2025). Strategic ignorance and interests in the UK Parliament: the case of Transatlantic African Trafficking and Chattel Enslavement. International Journal of Parliamentary Studies, 5(1), 9-38. https://doi.org/10.1163/26668912-bja10104

Elected UK MPs claim to represent our interests, for which they need to know our preferences within our social contexts, while peers in the House of Lords position themselves as knowledgeable experts. Parliaments are institutional knowledge producers... Read More about Strategic ignorance and interests in the UK Parliament: the case of Transatlantic African Trafficking and Chattel Enslavement.

Collaborative reflexive inquiry into parliaments: Ethnographers negotiating during research on politics (2025)
Book Chapter
Bernardes, C., Cornwall, A., Crewe, E., & Hoyler, T. (2025). Collaborative reflexive inquiry into parliaments: Ethnographers negotiating during research on politics. In J. Chibois, & S. Shapiro (Eds.), Fieldwork in centres of power, a longitudinal perspective. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003356349-12

In August 2022, a group of four ethnographers assembled in São Paulo to undertake a collaborative inquiry with politicians, each with their own different identities, positions of power, rhythms of work and sensibilities. By researching as a team, we... Read More about Collaborative reflexive inquiry into parliaments: Ethnographers negotiating during research on politics.