Clough (2010) The Case of Sociology: Governmentality and Methodology

This article discusses the contributions to a special issue 'On the case' in Critical Inquiry. It sh argues that  qualitative methodology in sociology can produce untimely political effects. The author encourages the further development of ways to think across the methodologies of sociology and critical theory and cultural criticism in order to address governance while giving freer rein to the indeterminacy of the in-between of the exceptional and the unexceptional ordinary.