Phil Hutchinson

Be great to have you join us. But yeah, you really get a bad deal from the time difference.

We miss you Anna!

A paragraph from the ROLSI.net guest blog by Phil Hutchinson on the Manchester UK echo/CA reading group

A fascinating ROLSI blog post by @philhutchinson.bsky.social on the long running ethnomethodology/CA reading group, originally based at Manchester University.

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This passage is from the intro to te Molder & Potter (eds) - 2005 - Conversation & Cognition. Good to see Jeff living up to his reputation! He never disappointed.

Ha ha, only if I can be Phoebe

A great write up on the life and liveliness of the “Manchester” EM Reading Group. As Phil says, it’s rare to find space to really talk and think in modern academia.

I don’t get to go as often as I’d like, but like any favourite place that one has, knowing it’s there makes things a little better.

Guest blog: Ethnomethodology, from Manchester to MS Teams One of the most adhesive binding agents for researchers in EM/CA is the weekly get-together, whether to pore over data or to discuss the week’s chosen reading. Some reading groups and data se…

New blog on the ROLSI website on The Ethnomethodology Reading Group, its history, disputes, challenges, and payoffs. Oh, and the spectre of the poker...

If you want to join us, get in touch. New members are always welcome.

#EMCA #EM/CA #Wittgenstein

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"The (Re)Production, Negotiation, and
Navigation of Social Asymmetries-in-Action:
An Introduction to the Special Issue" by Catherine L. Tam and Robin James Smith #sijournal #sociology #EMCA #SSSI #interactionism - onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....

If you would like to explore some of Jeff's work, having read this short piece by Bo & me in The Psychologist, you could start with some of the items on this thread I put together in May this year: bsky.app/hashtag/Jeff...

#EMCA #EM/CA

Bo and I wrote a little piece on Jeff Coulter for The Psychologist @psychmag.bsky.social

the picture is a screenshot of the Abstract of Potter's 2006 article Cognition and Conversation, published in Discourse and Society V.8 Issue 1

Potter, 2006, Cognition and Conversation

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This is a great thread, which encouraged me to go back to Conversation and Cognition this morning. I then proposed that we work through it, chapter by chapter, in the reading group I facilitate, & add Potter's follow-up paper from 2006, in which he responds to Drew.
So thanks!

Producing Trustworthiness: Locating the Adequacy of Findings in Interactional Research - Francesca A. Williamson, Danielle Layton, Jessica Nina Lester, 2025 This article explores the notion of research trustworthiness for ethnomethodology and conversation analysis (EMCA) studies. Informed by radical reflexivity, we ...

📌 New paper: “Producing Trustworthiness: Locating the Adequacy of Findings in Interactional Research,” published in Qualitative Inquiry.

#EMCA (EMCA-adjacent) #LSI #QualitativeInquiry

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The (Re)Production, Negotiation, and Navigation of Social Asymmetries‐in‐Action: An Introduction to the Special Issue This article reconsiders, and argues for, the contribution of ethnomethodological and conversation analytic research (EM/CA) to the understanding of social asymmetries in action. As well as highlight....

The introduction to our special issue on the (re)production of asymmetries-in-action. It’s been a pleasure working with @cathtam.bsky.social and our contributors in demonstrating EM/CA approaches to various “isms” and some of sociology’s “Big” concerns.
#emca

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Not to defend 'the Manchester programme' & certainly not Button's book, but I don't think your criticism sticks. Anderson & Sharrock have argued that EM is 3rd Person Phenomenology. AFAIK, none of that old Manc crowd have ever argued that EM is a method, Rod Watson explicitly argued against the idea

Yes, that doesn't ring any bells for me, in that it's not a passage I'm immediately familiar with. Though the topic of the passage does sound like Koffka on behavioral environments (to be contrasted with geographic environments). So I'd be inclined to think it is Koffka and not Kohler.

Are Whales Fish?

You probably know already, but for those reading this thread who don't, John Dupre has a paper titled "Are Whales Fish?" share.google/R3uTMQCCgI4o...
Which pairs well with his earlier paper "Natural Kinds and Biological Taxa"

Happy birthday!

Dave Ball was not some bloke in the background of Soft Cell – he drove their startling, subversive sound Far more than a mute foil to Marc Almond, Ball brought his love of northern soul and strange electronics to bear on some of Britain’s most uncompromising pop

RIP Dave Ball. I genuinely think that early eighties synth pop was one of those times when the avant garde broke through to the mainstream, opening things up musically and culturally.
Checkout the BBC's Synth Britannia doc, from 2009, if you've never seen it.

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Because it's not about warning in the sense of encouraging people not to watch/read potentially distressing material it's about not being held responsible for someone's distress. If you've warned someone & they choose to watch/read then you're not liable for their distress.

Moustache is looking good!

And the WRWC final... #ENGvsCAN

Win or lose today, the transformation in this wallabies team from the team that went into the first Lions test is incredible. With ball in hand they're a joy to watch. Exhibition stuff but played under pressure against the best teams. #NZLvsAUS

“Britain’s pothole crisis costs lives” says Cycling UK Since 2017 close to one person per week has been killed or seriously injured while cycling due to potholes and road defects on Britain’s roads

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📢Meet the IIEMCA27 Keynote Speakers.

Read about their work on the conference website:
www.iiemca27.org/about

#EMCA #MCA

The Elephant Man.
I watched it again last year with my son Chinua (15 at the time). We sat there for ten minutes after in silence, before he hugged me (I had something in my eye) & then had a couple of hours of life affirming conversation. We still find ourselves taking about it now.

The Springboks have been sensational in this second half. #NZLvsRSA #TheRugbyChampionship

All Blacks & Springboks treating us again to some of the most intense, exciting & highest quality rugby you're likely to see. Can we have this every week?!
#NZLvsRSA #TheRugbyChampionship

I didn't see that. I actually thought that if anything SA got a rough deal from the ref in the second half. Though I wouldn't make a big deal of it. Great game but about the right result. Can't wait for the next one.

What a game of rugby. Privilege to watch. The quality of plays, the handling, the tackles, the physicality, the defense. All as good as it gets. #NZLvsRSA #RugbyChampionship