Doing a transversal method: developing an ethics of care in a collaborative research project

Beck and Sznaider call on ‘methodological cosmopolitanism’ to transcend methodological nationalism and account for an increasingly cosmopolitanized reality. We take up their challenge by drawing on our experiences of conducting a collaborative ethnography of methodological changes in the production of population statistics within and between European national and international statistical institutes. Drawing on debates in science and technology studies, we depart from some conceptual presuppositions of methodological cosmopolitanism to define a ‘transversal method’. Referring to this method as performative and ontopolitical, we reflect on how it requires collaboration and, in our ethnography, gave rise to three practical challenges – (1) going beyond the individual project; (2) using each other's field notes; (3) and working against the national order of things. To meet these challenges, we reflect on how this method required us to practise three modes of care – thinking with others, tinkering with field notes, and dissenting within.     

Empirical Likelihood-Based Inferences for Generalized Partially Linear Models

Abstract.  This paper considers generalized partially linear models. We propose empirical likelihood-based statistics to construct confidence regions for the parametric and non-parametric components. The resulting statistics are shown to be asymptotically chi-square distributed. Finite-sample performance of the proposed statistics is assessed by simulation experiments. The proposed methods are applied to a data set from an AIDS clinical trial.     

The effects of publicly displayed ethnicity on interpersonal discrimination: Indo-Canadians in Vancouver

Dans cette note de recherche, nous explorons le lien entre l'affichage public de la différence ethnique et les témoignages d'individus se déclarant victimes de discrimination. Notre échantillon consiste en un groupe d'indo-canadiens enquêtés au début des années 1980. Nous démontrons de hauts niveaux de discrimination chez les indo-canadiens, mais nous ne trouvons pas d'évidence de lien direct entre pratiques ethniques publiques et expériences de discrimination. Nous montrons également qu'il existe d'importantes différences au sein du groupe ethnique indo-canadien quant aux niveaux de discrimination experimentés et suggérons des explications possibles à cet état de fait. Nous formulons nos questions de recherche dans le contexte des politiques sur le multiculturalisme - spécialement, l'encouragement de manifestations publiques de l'ethnicité - et nous nous demandons si cela génère ou non, une augmentation de l'hostilité ethnique experimentée par les individus.
In this research note we explore the link between the public display of ethnic difference and self-reports of discrimination. Our sample is a group of Indo-Canadians surveyed in the early 1980s. We demonstrate high levels of discrimination among Indo-Canadians, but we find no support for a direct link between public ethnic practices and experiences of discrimination. With race held constant, we also show important differences among Indo-Canadians in levels of discriminatory experiences and we suggest possible explanations for this finding. We frame our research question in the context of the policies of multiculturalism - especially the encouragement of public expressions of ethnicity - and ask whether this exacerbates the amount of ethnic hostility experienced by individuals.