Building Change on and off Reserve: Six Nations of the Grand River Territory, Turner and Bomberry, in Palgrave’s Handbook of Institutional Ethnography (2021):
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Chapter 8: Mapping Institutions as Work and Texts, in Institutional Ethnography as Practice (2006)
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Reading Practices in Decision Processes, in Smith and Turner (Eds), Incorporating Texts into Institutional Ethnographies (2014)
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Smith and Turner’s Introduction to their edited collection Incorporating Texts into Institutional Ethnographies (2014)
Introduces the book, Incorporating Texts into Institutional Ethnographies, a collection illustrating a range of ethnographic strategies and analytic payoffs where authors observed texts in action. Dorothy E. Smith and Susan Marie Turner View Full Text
Texts and the institutions of municipal government: The power of texts in the public process of land development, in Studies in Cultures and Organizations in Society, (2001) & in Lindsay Prior (Ed) Using Documents in Social Research, (2011).
This article explores the textual practices organizing participation in municipal planning and its public discourse, showing the production of local government and city ‘politics’. Susan M. Turner – Pages 297-325 | Published online: 21 Jun 2007 View Publication
With B. Prodinger: Using Institutional Ethnography to Explore how Social Policies Infiltrate into Daily Life, (2013)
The paper demonstrates how institutional ethnography provides a way for occupational scientists to understand how social policies shape the organizational processes and service agents’ work at Labor Market Offices and enter into the organization of people’s everyday activities in a city in Austria. Birgit Prodinger , PhD & Susan Marie Turner , PhD – Pages 357-369 | Published online: 18 Jun 2013 View Publication
Rendering the site developable: Texts in Local Government Decision making in Land Use Planning, In Campbell and Manicom, Knowledge, Experience, and Ruling Relations: Studies in the Social Organization of Knowledge (1995)
From the Introduction: The essays are the first compilation of applications of Smith’s methodology; this is a landmark work in the developing field of the social organization of knowledge. View Online