Anthem Companion to Harold Garfinkel

Philippe Sormani is Senior Researcher at the Institute of Social Sciences at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland. He is the author of Respecifying Lab Ethnography: An Ethnomethodological Study of Experimental Physics.Dirk vom Lehn is Professor of Organisation and Practice at King’s Business School, King’s College London, UK. He is the author of Harold Garfinkel: The Creation and Development of Ethnomethodology.

• List of Illustrations; Introduction: Rediscovering Garfinkel’s “Experiments,” Renewing Ethnomethodological Inquiry Philippe Sormani and Dirk vom Lehn; PART I EXEGESIS, 1.Garfinkel’s Praxeological “Experiments” Michael Lynch; 2.The Continuity of Garfinkel’s Approach: Seeking Ways of “Making the Phenomenon Available Again” Through the Experience and Usefulness of “Trouble” Clemens Eisenmann and Anne Warfield Rawls; PART II ‘EXPERIMENTS’, 3.Lay and Professional Competencies: Linking Garfinkel’s Tutorial Exercises to a Study of Legal Work Stacy Lee Burns; 4.Bargaining on Street-Markets as “Experiment in Miniature” Dirk vom Lehn; 5.Notes on Galileo’s Pendulum Dušan I. Bjelić; 6.Disruptures of Normal Appearances in Public Space: The Covid-19 Pandemic as a Natural Breaching Situation Lorenza Mondada and Hanna Svensson; 7.Gender as a Scientific Experiment: Toward a Queer Ethnomethodology Luca Greco; 8.Breaching and Robot Experiments: Continuing Harold Garfinkel’s Spirit of Experimentation Keiichi Yamazaki and Yusuke Arano; 9.Dealing with Daemons: Trust in Autonomous Systems Jonas Ivarsson; PART III IMPLICATIONS, 10.Experimenting with the Archive? Performing Purdue in Paris, an Instructive Reprise Yaël Kreplak and Philippe Sormani; 11.Rereading Galileo’s Inclined Plane Demonstration Kenneth Liberman, in conversation with Harold Garfinkel; Postface: “Experiments”—What Are We Talking About? A Plea For Conceptual Investigations Wes Sharrock; Notes on Contributors; Index of Names; Index of Subjects