In the following story, I catalogue a variety of difficulties that I encountered while conducting field research on the Green Tortoise. Oddly enough, the greatest impediments to the early success of this project were my poorly examined orienting assumptions. Nevertheless, the distortions imposed...

I examine practices of modern census making with a specific focus on Canadian censuses of population from 1911 – 1951. My analysis builds on the work of two recent and related streams of research in the social sciences. One draws from Foucault\'s writings on biopower and post-Foucauldian...

This article considers a number of related concepts – standpoint, objectivity, emancipation – in the light of my own research which looked at gay and lesbian communities in the north-west of England. It advocates and promotes the use of gay and lesbian standpoint and defends...