ABSTRACT
In this introductory chapter, we lay a foundation for readers to gain insights into conceptual perspectives guiding Interactional Ethnography (IE) and related studies in ethnographic spaces of possibilities. We introduce underlying iterative, recursive, and abductive logic of ethnographic inquiry and provide a brief overview of IE and its guiding principles. Then, drawing on Mitchell's arguments about different kinds of cases in ethnographic research, we position the chapters as telling cases which make visible the theoretical and analytic ethnographic logic of inquiry and its potentials. In the last section of the introduction, we present the organization of the volume and a brief overview of the chapters.
