%0 Journal Article
%T 'Political Activist as Ethnographer', Revisited
%A Ian Hussey
%J The Canadian Journal of Sociology
%D 2012
%I University of Alberta
%X In this article I revisit and expand upon George Smith¡¯s (1990) landmark article, ¡°Political Activist as Ethnographer.¡± Political activist ethnography (PAE) is a specialized form of institutional ethnography (IE) that has not received nearly enough attention in the twenty years since the original publication of Smith¡¯s article. In an effort to revisit and bolster this research approach, I provide an overview of IE/PAE, critically engage with three recent commentaries on PAE, and offer a new interpretation of this approach as well as an example of its application from my ongoing research on fair trade.
%K political activist ethnography
%K institutional ethnography
%K activist research
%K social movement
%K fair trade
%K ethical trade
%U http://ejournals.library.ualberta.ca/index.php/CJS/article/view/10214/13564