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'He who does not care for his own people is worse than a heathen': A peek behind the scenes of the Orania community
Henry van der Burgt
The town of Orania stands out in contemporary South Africa as a community with the objective to restore Afrikaner freedom. For this purpose, the town strives towards self-determination: the community has its own land, its own institutions, and does its own labor. Following my ethnographic fieldwork, this article describes one critical event in which Orania allowed me, as an outsider, to take a peek behind the scenes. By analyzing this incident as a social drama we can look past the homogeneity through which Orania presents itself, and see meaningful differences of opinion with regard to how the community responds to outsiders.

Documents the history of the NDSM shipyard hangar in Amsterdam, a self-organized, self-financed space for small-scale manufacturing and arts community. As one of the initiators of the redevelopment of the former NDSM shipyard, Eva de Klerk gives a personal account of organizational processes, successes and tribulations, and complex relations with authorities

Sport is traditionally governed by international sports organizations (ISOs), which are at the top of self-regulatory networks that extend further over continental and local levels. These organizations attach great importance to their autonomous functioning, making any form of government interference in their activities is studiously avoided. For decades knew the world of sports in this way to enforce his own place in society: the idea of a kind of private government activities that normally are part of the job of a political system, exercises such as the issuing of rules and sanctions and conduct various forms of social policy. This sport largely escaped the normal application of general legal standards as the labor and tax law. In addition to the hierarchical structure of the self-regulatory networks in sport those at the bottom of these networks, ie clubs and players, rarely consulted and almost never actively involved in their policy processes. Adapted from the source document.

Pragmatics and pragmatism in
qualitative inquiry
Adri Smaling
American pragmatist philosophers, i.e.
Charles Peirce, William James, John
Dewey, Herbert Mead, have influenced
the methodology of qualitative research,
especially the grounded theory
approach and action research. In addition
Richard Rorty is mentioned. Some
of their ideas are discussed, such as
abduction, self, work, transaction,
symbolic interaction, role taking and
conversation.

Biography becomes ethnography; how life history interviews of a criminal turned into participant observation
Biography becomes ethnography; how life history interviews of a criminal turned into participant observation
Life history interviews with a (criminal) person seem to focus on what has happened in the past. However, following a self-evident chronological frame, researcher and respondent find themselves working towards here and now. Methods change, as does the relation between the two.

Over the last forty years, 'the world' has entered 'the museum'. Collections and presentations that were supposed to be self-evident had to be reconsidered. This chapter demonstrates that two more or less simultaneous influences shaped this process in Dutch museums. On the one hand, many Dutch museums were transformed from institutions of the local or national government into independent charities and forced to take greater responsibility for their own finances. On the other hand, the social exclusivity of the collections and presentations (dominated by white males) was questioned. The article describes how museums dealt with these challenges and their sometimes contradictory implications.

Complexity thinking and qualitative research
Complexity thinking and qualitative research
In this article complexity thinking (or complex thought) is conceived of as a generalization of complexity theory, which was developed at the Santa Fe Institute. Especially Edgar Morin and Paul Cilliers have contributed to the idea of generalized complexity. Within this approach all living and social systems are complex systems: adaptive, dynamic, consisting of emergent features and being able to self-organization, in an almost unpredictable way. Methodological pluralism is a consequence of this type of thinking. Thus, mixed methods are preferred. However, qualitative methodology can already be seen as a striving for complex thought. This concerns its anti-reductionism as well as its anti-holism. In addition, ethical responsibility of empirical researchers is emphasized.