Between orthodoxy and openness: a book review essay on: The Palgrave Handbook of Institutional Ethnography: edited by Paul C. Luken and Suzanne Vaughan, Cham, Switzerland, Palgrave Macmillan, 2021 eBook £95.50, Hardcover £119.99 561pp. eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-54222-1 Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-54221-4

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The Palgrave Handbook of Institutional Ethnography (IE), edited by Paul C. Luken and Suzanne Vaughan, is an important addition to the field, bringing a breadth of disciplines, contexts, and empirical foci together with crucial interventions from seasoned Institutional Ethnographers (IEers). IE as orthodoxy There is a fundamental tension that runs through the IE field, coming up at conferences and in informal discussions I how to balance defining IE and its boundaries clearly while still encouraging creativity and openness i . Between orthodoxy and openness a book review essay on The Palgrave Handbook of Institutional Ethnography edited by Paul C. Luken and Suzanne Vaughan, Cham, Switzerland, Palgrave Macmillan, 2021 eBook £95.50, Hardcover £119.99 561pp. IE's interdisciplinarity can be exciting and informative, but there is a tension between providing enough detailed description of one's own area of research while also forefronting the IE analytical and/or methodological points which are often of most interest to the IE reader. [Extracted from the article] Copyright of International Journal of Social Research Methodology is the property of Routledge and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. This may be abridged. No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy. Users should refer to the original published version of the material for the full . (Copyright applies to all s.)