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temitopeojedele-adejumo

March 18, 2019

There was this fine broke Pierre,

Whose lips on mine tasted like a sweet pear.

His problems and mine

To each other we freely bare.

But Pierre began, with Kings, to dine,

And lost focus on how I fare.

Hello,

I’m Tèmítọ́pẹ́

As a central analytic for the work of the institutional ethnographer, standpoint foregrounds the ways individuals are unique and therefore uniquely experience the broad social relations and institutional circuits in which they are embedded.
Standpoint recognizes that how people negotiate their social circumstances as professionals is entirely wrapped up in their ways of being in the world—who we are, what we know, how we are seen by others, our designated roles, and how we have been credentialed or come by our experiences all play a role in how we carry out our daily work.

— Michelle LaFrance, Institutional Ethnography, 2019.