ABSTRACT
This chapter presents the theoretical bases for the more practical-focused. It describes the four basic principles that are at the heart of video-reflexive ethnography (VRE): exnovation, collaboration, reflexivity and care. The chapter explains how video accesses the everyday dimensions of care, and why doing so is important for unveiling and tackling the complexity of care. It explores why VRE focuses on the accomplishment of everyday practices, outlining the difficulty and importance of looking at often taken-for-granted ways of working. The chapter provides the literature that investigates the practices of everyday work. It also explains depends on practitioners and patients being enabled to adopt different insider–outsider positions from which they become aware of different perspectives on everyday matters. The chapter analyses the role of video and feedback in producing these different positions and perspectives, and, in doing so, revealing the complexity of processes that are ordinarily taken for granted.
