Many studies have utilized institutional ethnography (IE) to reveal the social relations that govern how things are put together at the frontline of work, particularly in the public sector and education. The focus has generally been on restrictive practices associated with accountability regimes of new public management. Less analytic attention has been paid, however, to discovering ways in which workers are finding how it can be otherwise. Revisiting the data from a longitudinal study, originally conducted as an IE, provided an opportunity to trace the influence of affect in relation to teachers’ practices. Grounded in empirical data, this article makes a case for the methodological innovation of tracing the work done by affect, as part of an IE, in order to reveal possibilities for resistance.

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制度民族志和影响的重要性：作为其他可能性指标的情感回路

许多研究利用制度民族志 (IE) 来揭示社会关系，这些社会关系决定了工作前线的事物如何组合在一起，尤其是在公共部门和教育中。重点通常是与新公共管理的问责制度相关的限制性做法。然而，很少有分析关注发现工人如何找到其他方式。重新审视最初作为 IE 进行的纵向研究的数据，提供了追踪情感对教师实践的影响的机会。本文以实证数据为基础，作为 IE 的一部分，对追踪情感所做工作的方法创新提出了一个案例，以揭示抵抗的可能性。