Doing Human Service Ethnography

Abstract

Shadowing care workers when they're 'doing nothing' Doris Lydahl 2 Two worlds of professional relevance in a small village Christel Avendal 3 Capturing the organization of emotions in child welfare decision-making Tea Torbenfeldt Bengtsson PART II Grasping empirical complexity 4 Sensitizing concepts in studies of homelessness and disability Nanna Mik-Meyer 5 Grasping the social life of documents in human service practice Emilie Morwenna Whitaker 6 Debating dementia care logics Cíntia Engel, Janaína Aredes and Annette Leibing PART III Challenges of multi-sitedness 7 Social worlds of person-centred, multi-sited ethnography Aleksandra Bartoszko 8 'Facting' in a case of concealed pregnancy Lucy Sheehan 9 Ethnographic challenges of fragmented human services Tarja Pösö PART IV Noticings from ethnographic distance 10 Ethnographic discovery after fieldwork on troubled youth Malin Åkerström and David Wästerfors 11 Looking beyond the police-as-control narrative