Mlynář, Jakub, Smith, Robin James ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7457-9690, Au-Yeung, Terry S.H., Boström, Erik and Dahl, Patrik
2025.
“What the world is made up of”: The Chicago School’s alternates and laterals in ethnomethodology and conversation analysis.
American Sociologist
10.1007/s12108-025-09659-1
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Smith, Robin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7457-9690
2025.
Categorizational asymmetries in context: Producing and resisting policeable scenes.
Symbolic Interaction
10.1002/symb.1246
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Smith, Robin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7457-9690
2025.
Membership categorisation analysis.
Carlin, Andrew, Dennis, Alex, Jenkings, K. Neil, Lindwall, Oskar and Mair, Michael, eds.
Routledge International Handbook of Ethnomethodology,
Abingdon and New York:
Routledge,
(10.4324/9780429323904-21)
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Tam, Catherine and Smith, Robin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7457-9690
2025.
The (re)production, negotiation, and navigation of social asymmetries-in-action: an introduction to the special issue.
Symbolic Interaction
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Smith, Robin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7457-9690, Smith, Thomas ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7221-1868 and Pehkonen, Samu
2025.
The senses-in-action: visual and haptic encounters with occasioned environments.
Gibson, Will, Ruiz-Junco, Natalia and vom Lehn, Dirk, eds.
Sensing Life: the social organisation of the senses in interaction,
Routledge,
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Smith, Robin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7457-9690
2025.
Teaching doing ethnography.
Foster, L., Mason, W. and Nichols, K., eds.
Teaching Research Methods in Sociology,
Edward Elgar,
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Smith, Robin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7457-9690
2025.
Walking the line: Search practices, environment, and the practice of care in mountain rescue work.
Bates, Charlotte and Jackson, Emma, eds.
Walking: A Sociological Field Guide,
Manchester:
Manchester University Press,
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Au-Yeung, Terry S.H. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2540-7811 and Smith, Robin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7457-9690
2025.
‘The video does look concerning, but it is only a snapshot’ Public accusations and counteraccusations of [racist] police conduct in the U.K.
Analysing Conversations in Forensic Settings,
SpringerNature,
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Smith, Robin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7457-9690
2025.
Going non-categorial: the work of technically-accurate-category-neutral descriptions in responding to accusations.
Fitzgerald, Richard, Housley, William, Au-Yeung, Shing and Smith, Robin, eds.
New Directions in Membership Categorisation Analysis,
BRILL,
pp. 27-41.
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Smith, Robin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7457-9690, Ablitt, Jonathan, Williams, Joseph and Hall, Thomas ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3358-9053
2023.
The coining of convivial public space: Homelessness, outreach work, and interaction order.
Urban Planning
8
(4)
, pp. 42-51.
10.17645/up.v8i4.6457
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Smith, Robin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7457-9690 and Delamont, Sara ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5683-2311, eds.
2023.
Leaving the field: Methodological insights from ethnographic exits.
Manchester:
Manchester University Press.
10.7765/9781526157669
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Smith, Robin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7457-9690
2022.
Digital mobilities and digital society.
Housley, William, Edwards, Adam, Beneito-Montagut, Roser and Fitzgerald, Richard, eds.
SAGE Handbook of Digital Society,
London:
SAGE,
pp. 55-72.
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Smith, Robin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7457-9690
2022.
Fieldwork, participation, and unique-adequacy-in-action.
Qualitative Research
10.1177/14687941221132955
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Smith, Robin James ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7457-9690, Atkinson, Paul ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7367-8160 and Evans, Rhiannon ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0239-6331
2022.
Situating stigma: Accounting for deviancy, difference, and categorial relations.
Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice
28
(5)
, pp. 890-896.
10.1111/jep.13749
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Smith, Robin James ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7457-9690
2022.
Interaction in public places.
Jacobsen, Michael Hvild and Smith, Greg, eds.
The Routledge International Handbook of Goffman Studies,
Abingdon and New York:
Routledge,
pp. 97-107.
(10.4324/9781003160861-10)
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Pehkonen, S., Smith, T. A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7221-1868 and Smith, R. J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7457-9690
2022.
Maps, mobility, and perspective: remarks on map use in producing an orienteering course.
Mobilities
17
(1)
, pp. 152-178.
10.1080/17450101.2021.1953945
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Smith, Robin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7457-9690
2021.
Space, mobility, and interaction.
Vom Lehn, Dirk, Ruiz-Junco, Natalia and Gibson, Will, eds.
The Routledge International Handbook of Interactionism,
Routledge International Handbooks,
Abingdon and New York:
Routledge,
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Smith, Robin James ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7457-9690
2021.
Categorisation practices, instructed actions, and teamwork as occasioned phenomena: structuring the ‘carry off’ in mountain rescue work.
Cekaite, Asta, Keisanen, Tiina, Rauniomaa, Mirka and Siitonen, Pauliina, eds.
Human‐Assisted Mobility in Social Interaction,
Gesprächsforschung Online‐Zeitschrift zur verbalen Interaktion,
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Jimenez, Patricia and Smith, Robin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7457-9690
2021.
Accomplishing the categorial landscape of the classroom: the case of group singing.
Ethnographic Studies
18
, pp. 173-194.
10.5281/zenodo.5805434
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Smith, Robin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7457-9690, Fitzgerald, Richard and Housley, William ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1568-9093, eds.
2020.
On sacks: methdology, materials, and inspirations.
Routledge.
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Smith, Robin James ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7457-9690
2020.
Categorisation practices, place, and perception: doing incongruities and the commonplace scene as ‘assembled activity’.
Smith, Robin James, Fitzgerald, Richard and Housley, William, eds.
On Sacks: Methdology, Materials, and Inspirations,
Directions in Ethnomethodology and Conversation Analysis,
Routledge,
pp. 182-194.
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Stanley, Steven ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4776-4097, Smith, Robin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7457-9690, Jones, Joshua and Ford, Eleanor
2020.
Making something out of nothing: breaching everyday life by standing still in a public place.
The Sociological Review
68
(6)
, pp. 1250-1272.
10.1177/0038026120940616
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Smith, Robin James ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7457-9690, Ablitt, Jonathan, Dahl, Patrik, Hoyland, Sylvia, Jimenez, Patricia, John, Zoe, Long, Fiona, Sheehan, Lucy and Williams, Joseph
2020.
Ethnography and the new normal.
Etnografia e ricerca qualitativa
2020
(2)
, pp. 195-205.
10.3240/97805
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Ablitt, Jonathan and Smith, Robin James ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7457-9690
2019.
Working out Douglas’ aphorism: discarded objects, categorisation practices, and moral inquiries.
The Sociological Review
67
(4)
, pp. 866-885.
10.1177/0038026119854271
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Smith, Robin James ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7457-9690 and Delamont, Sara ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5683-2311
2019.
Editorial introduction.
The Lost Ethnographies: Methodological Insights from Projects that Never Were,
Vol. 17.
Studies in Qualitative Methodology,
Translated from the original by Smith, Robin James and Delamont, Sara.
Emerald Publishing Limited,
pp. 1-15.
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Smith, Robin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7457-9690
2019.
Remarks from a lost engagement with the engaging ordinariness of parkour.
Smith, Robin James and Delamont, Sara, eds.
The Lost Ethnographies: Methodological Insights from Projects that Never Were,
Vol. 17.
Studies in Qualitative Methodology,
Emerald Publishing Limited,
pp. 31-45.
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Smith, Robin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7457-9690 and Delamont, Sara ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5683-2311, eds.
2019.
The lost ethnographies: Methodological insights from projects that never were.
Studies in Qualitative Methodology,
Bingley:
Emerald.
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Smith, Robin James ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7457-9690 and Hall, Tom ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3358-9053
2018.
Everyday territories: homelessness, outreach work and city space.
British Journal of Sociology
69
(2)
, pp. 372-390.
10.1111/1468-4446.12280
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Smith, Robin James ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7457-9690
2018.
Doing it tidy: the open exploratory spirit and methodological engagement in recent Cardiff ethnographies.
Delamont, Sara, ed.
An Open Exploratory Spirit? The Cardiff School of Ethnography 1974-2017,
Cardiff University,
pp. 50-60.
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Housley, William ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1568-9093, Dicks, Bella, Henwood, Karen ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4631-5468 and Smith, Robin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7457-9690
2017.
Qualitative methods and data in digital societies.
Qualitative Research
17
(6)
, pp. 607-609.
10.1177/1468794117730936
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Smith, Robin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7457-9690
2017.
Evrick Brown and Timothy Shortell (eds) (2016). Walking in Cities: Quotidian Mobility as Urban Theory, Method, and Practice. Philadelphia: Temple University Press [Book Review].
Urbanities - Journal of Urban Ethnography
7
(1)
, pp. 140-143.
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Housley, William ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1568-9093 and Smith, Robin James ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7457-9690
2017.
Interactionism and digital society.
Qualitative Research
17
(2)
, pp. 187-201.
10.1177/1468794116685142
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Hall, Tom ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3358-9053 and Smith, Robin James ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7457-9690
2017.
Seeing the need: urban outreach as sensory walking.
Bates, Charlotte and Rhys-Taylor, Alex, eds.
Walking Through Social Research,
New York:
Routledge,
pp. 39-53.
(10.4324/9781315561547-4)
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Smith, Robin James ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7457-9690 and Hall, Tom ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3358-9053
2016.
Mobilities at work: care, repair, movement and a fourfold typology.
Applied Mobilities
1
(2)
, pp. 147-160.
10.1080/23800127.2016.1246897
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Wood, Lisa A., Smith, Robin James ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7457-9690 and Hall, Thomas Adrian ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3358-9053
2016.
Work on the move: editors' introduction to the special issue.
Applied Mobilities
1
(2)
, pp. 139-146.
10.1080/23800127.2016.1250371
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Smith, Robin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7457-9690
2016.
Book review: Dirk Vom Lehn, Harold Garfinkel: the creation and development of ethnomethodology.
Qualitative Research
16
(3)
, pp. 348-349.
10.1177/1468794115571435
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Smith, Robin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7457-9690 and Atkinson, Paul ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7367-8160
2015.
Method and measurement in sociology, fifty years on.
International Journal of Social Research Methodology
19
(1)
, pp. 99-110.
10.1080/13645579.2015.1068010
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Housley, William ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1568-9093 and Smith, Robin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7457-9690
2015.
Membership categorisation and methodological reasoning in research team interaction.
Fitzgerald, Richard and Housley, William, eds.
Advances in Membership Categorisation Analysis,
SAGE,
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Smith, Robin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7457-9690
2015.
Book review: Peter Tolmie and Mark Rouncefield (eds), Ethnomethodology at Play R Smith.
Qualitative Research
15
(2)
, pp. 269-270.
10.1177/1468794114535039
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Taylor, Stephanie and Smith, Robin James ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7457-9690
2014.
The ethics of interviewing for discourse analysis: responses to Martyn Hammersley.
Qualitative Research
14
(5)
, pp. 542-548.
10.1177/1468794113503742
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Hall, Tom ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3358-9053 and Smith, Robin J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7457-9690
2014.
Knowing the city: maps, mobility and urban outreach work.
Qualitative Research
14
(3)
, pp. 294-310.
10.1177/1468794112469623
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Smith, Robin James ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7457-9690
2014.
Missed miracles and mystical connections: Qualitative research, digital social science and big data.
Hand, Martin and Hillyard, Sam, eds.
Big Data? Qualitative Approaches to Digital Research,
Vol. 13.
Studies in Qualitative Methodology,
Emerald Group Publishing Limited,
pp. 181-204.
(10.1108/S1042-319220140000013011)
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Smith, Robin James ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7457-9690
2013.
Symbolic interaction.
McIntosh, Scott, Mason, Tom, Mason-Whitehead, Elizabeth and Coyle, David, eds.
Key Concepts in Nursing and Healthcare Research.,
SAGE,
pp. 125-130.
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Smith, Robin James ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7457-9690 and Hetherington, K., eds.
2013.
Urban rhythms: mobilities, space and interaction in the contemporary city.
Sociological Review Monographs,
Chichester:
Wiley.
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Smith, Robin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7457-9690
2013.
Book review: Sarah Pink, situating everyday life: practices and places.
Qualitative Research
13
(5)
, pp. 628-630.
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Maynard, Trisha, Taylor, Christopher Matthew ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9146-9167, Waldron, Samuel, Rhys, Mirain ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0521-6858, Smith, Robin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7457-9690, Power, Sally ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3287-0003 and Clement, Jennifer
2013.
Evaluating the Foundation Phase: policy logic model and programme theory.
[Project Report].
Government Social Research,
vol. 37.
Welsh Government.
Available at: http://gov.wales/docs/caecd/research/130318-evalua...
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Smith, Robin James ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7457-9690 and Hall, Thomas Adrian ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3358-9053
2013.
No time out: mobility, rhythmicity and urban patrol in the twenty-four hour city.
The Sociological Review
61
(S1)
, pp. 89-108.
10.1111/1467-954X.12055
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Smith, Robin James ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7457-9690
2012.
How far does mobility get us?
Sociology
46
(3)
, pp. 555-561.
10.1177/0038038511419181
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Hall, Thomas Adrian ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3358-9053 and Smith, Robin James ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7457-9690
2011.
Walking, welfare and the good city.
Anthropology in Action
18
(3)
, pp. 33-44.
10.3167/aia.2011.180304
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Smith, Robin James ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7457-9690, Heley, Jesse and Stafford, Ian ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0668-643X
2011.
Woolworths and Wales: a multi-dimensional analysis of the loss of a local brand.
Sociological Research Online
16
(1)
, 10.
10.5153/sro.2284
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Smith, Robin James ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7457-9690
2011.
Goffman's interaction order at the margins: stigma, role, and normalization in the outreach encounter.
Symbolic Interaction
34
(3)
, pp. 357-376.
10.1525/si.2011.34.3.357
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Delamont, Sara ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5683-2311, Atkinson, Paul Anthony ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7367-8160, Smith, Robin James ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7457-9690, Da Costa, L., Hillyard, Sam and Pilgrim, Anita
2010.
Review symposium: Martyn Hammersley, Questioning Qualitative Inquiry.
Qualitative Research
10
(6)
, pp. 749-758.
10.1177/1468794110380578
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Smith, Robin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7457-9690
2010.
Whose method is it anyway? Researching space, setting, and practice.
Cardiff University Working Paper Series
135
, pp. 1-9.
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Smith, Robin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7457-9690
2009.
Outreach as sense walking.
Presented at: Royal Geographical Society Annual Conference,
Manchester, UK,
August 2009.
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Housley, William ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1568-9093 and Smith, Robin James ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7457-9690
2009.
Mundane reason and the politics of space.
Presented at: Royal Geographical Society Annual Conference,
Manchester, UK,
August 2009.
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Housley, William ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1568-9093 and Smith, Robin James ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7457-9690
2009.
Mundane reason, ontology and the politics of space.
Presented at: Sociological Review Conference- The Politics of Imagination,
Stratford, UK,
May 2009.
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Smith, Robin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7457-9690
2009.
The negotiation of a pastless place.
Presented at: British Sociological Association Annual Conference,
Cardiff, UK,
April 2009.
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