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Institutional Ethnography Map

An interactive map tracing the ruling relations, texts, and work processes that coordinate conversion therapy policy in Canada — built from the Beyond Harm community-based research process.

IE Map
Centre for Family Justice Research
drag to rotate · scroll to zoom · click node · drag node · R = reset · F = fullscreen
Node size = institutional weight
Dashed ring = expandable node

About IE Mapping

Institutional Ethnography, developed by Dorothy Smith, offers a method for tracing how institutional processes organize everyday life. Mapping in IE makes ruling relations visible — following the texts, work processes, and social relations that coordinate action across different institutional sites, always beginning from the standpoint of those most affected.

Social Relations
The chains of coordinated action connecting people across different institutional sites. IE traces these relations rather than treating institutions as bounded, fixed objects.
Textual Mapping
Texts are the primary mechanism of institutional coordination. Mapping follows how forms, policies, and records activate sequences of action — textually mediated social organization.
Work Processes
The actual sequences of paid and unpaid work people perform in response to institutional demands — making visible what institutional categories render invisible.
Standpoint
IE is grounded in the standpoint of the subject — the lived, everyday experiences of people from which inquiry begins, before following ruling relations outward into institutional sites.

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