Archive Ethnography: What concepts, ideas and examples from this text contribute to archive ethnography?
What concepts, ideas and examples from this text contribute to the theory and practice of archive ethnography? The idea that data curation practices are “performative” (p. 156) is an important consideration for the data collection and curation practices for both archive ethnography and social science research in general. As Mauthner & Gardos (2015) write, “Data curation practices are ‘performative’ in that they help bring into being the data they ostensibly preserve” (p. 156).