Qualitative Analysis Conference 2014: The Social Construction of Boundaries: Creating, Maintaining, Transcending, and Reconstituting Boundaries

Lisa-Jo K. van den Scott is a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Sociology, Research Studio for Narrative, Visual, and Digital Methods, Brock University, Canada. Her main interest is in a sociology of walls wherein she examines the experiences of space and place, identity, and knowledge transmission as intersectional and experienced in interaction with the walls and boundaries that shape how we move through our lives. She has worked with concepts of globalization among the Inuit through the lenses of Symbolic Interactionism and Science and Technology Studies, working with innovative qualitative and visual methodologies. She has published in The Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, The American Behavioral Scientist, The Journal of Empirical Research on Human Research Ethics, and Sociology Compass, in addition to several book chapters — all of which deal in some capacity with the relationship between people and the landscape of their lives; how they experience their everyday lives within their physical and social contexts, particularly in times of transition.