Here I present two short case studies of my own work: one on how I constructed a life history of activist John La Rose (1927 - 2006) (Alleyne 2002); and the other on how I assembled an account of the practices and views of people in a large free  software project (Alleyne 2011).

 

 

Alleyne B (2002) Radicals against race: Black activism and cultural politics. Oxford, UK ; New York: Berg.

Alleyne B (2011) Challenging Code: A Sociological Reading of the KDE Free Software Project. Sociology, 45(3), 496–511.