From offline Brussels to online dispersion. Where is the European Parliament? A proposal to explore a complex, multi-dimensional and multi-site fieldwork

Roginsky, Sandrine
(2025) Doing Fieldwork in Centres of Power - The Case of Deliberative Assemblies — ISBN: [9781003356349], p. 58-79, accepted/in-press

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This chapter addresses how the technological dimension of parliamentary work challenges fieldwork research in Parliaments. Technology contributes to fragmenting and distributing space, whilst space can be as much offline as online with the increased importance of digital technologies in today’s mediatized policymaking. Online activities and environments compel us to revisit the concept of space when exploring places of power, such as Parliaments, and to look at material arrangements. Experiences from a field study in and around the European Parliament illustrate and show the benefits of taking both online and offline activities into account. This raises questions about what constitutes ethnographic field but also about the ethnographer methodological commitments.
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Roginsky, S. (2025). From offline Brussels to online dispersion. Where is the European Parliament? A proposal to explore a complex, multi-dimensional and multi-site fieldwork. In Jonathan Chibois, Samuel Shapiro (ed.), Doing Fieldwork in Centres of Power - The Case of Deliberative Assemblies (1st Edition, p. p. 58-79). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003356349