Documents

The Radical Ethnomethodology meetings are tied to a number of documents and initiatives. Some are hosted here, others (published elsewhere) linked to.

Introduction

‘Radical Ethnomethodology’ by Michael Lynch: the position paper circulated before the meetings

Reflections on the meetings

‘Critique, Complacency, Cumulativity and Comparators’ by Bob Anderson
‘Reflections on the Meeting’ by Michael Lynch

Commentaries and contributions

‘What Was Radical About Ethnomethodology?’ by Martyn Hammersley

An examination of the ‘epistemics’ programme

A central part of the Radical Ethnomethodology initiative has been a critical engagement with the ‘epistemics’ programme, and a consideration of its relationship to conversation analysis. Our position is outlined here:

‘An Introduction to a Collection of Notes and Papers on “Epistemics” in Conversation Analysis’ (revised in May 2018) by Michael Lynch

A number of papers addressing these issues were published in the journal Discourse Studies:

‘The Epistemics of Epistemics: An Introduction’ by Michael Lynch and Douglas Macbeth (pre-publication version)
‘Epistemic Status and the Recognizability of Social Actions’ by Oskar Lindwall, Gustav Lymer and Jonas Ivarsson (pre-publication version)
‘Reverting to a Hidden Interactional Order: Epistemics, Informationism, and Conversation Analysis’ by Michael Lynch and Jean Wong (pre-publication version)
‘The Story of “Oh”, Part 1: Indexing Structure, Animating Transcript’ by Douglas Macbeth, Jean Wong and Michael Lynch (pre-publication version)
‘The Story of “Oh”, Part 2: Animating Transcript’ by Douglas Macbeth and Jean Wong (pre-publication version)

There are two additional commentaries on these analyses:

‘Throwing the Baby Out with the Bathwater? Commentary on the Criticism of the “Epistemic Program”’ by Jakob Steensig and Trine Heinemann (pre-publication version)
‘In Support of Conversation Analysis’ Radical Agenda’ by Graham Button and Wes Sharrock (pre-publication version)

Rebuttals by John Heritage and others were published in the February 2018 issue of Discourse Studies. Rejoinders to this rebuttal are here:

‘Notes on a Display of Epistemic Authority’ (revised in April 2018) by Michael Lynch
‘Epistemic Status, Sequentiality, and Ambiguity: Notes on Heritage’s Rebuttal ’ by Gustav Lymer, Oskar Lindwall and Jonas Ivarsson
‘Authority, Subordination and the Rewriting of “Epistemics”: A Reply to a Rebuttal’ by Douglas Macbeth

Later papers and interventions

‘Garfinkel, Sacks and Formal Structures’ by Michael Lynch, presented at the 2017 IIEMCA conference
‘“Hotrodder: A Revolutionary Category”—A Genealogy of a Sacks’ Conversation(al) Analytic Method’ by Dušan Bjelić, presented at the 2017 IIEMCA conference
‘This and That: Garfinkel, Wittgenstein and the World in 2017’ by Peter Eglin, presented at the 2017 IIEMCA conference
‘Has Ethnomethodology Run Its Course?’ by Bob Anderson and Wes Sharrock, published on their website.
‘Confirming Illusions: A Literary Practice in “Latter-Day” Conversation Analysis’ by Michael Lynch, presented at the ‘Beyond Epistemics’ workshop, June 2018
‘Formalization and Its Discontents’ by Michael Lynch, presented at the 2018 ASA Meetings