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multiple techniques, each building on the next, which eventually culminated into this stage. Figure 6.8 is the study’s social world/arena map of the remote nurse’s social world of delivering mental healthcare. The social world/arena map (see Figure 6.8) and its multifarious elements and groups, are displayed in a static visual representation; like a ‘snap shot’ of the social world. The reality is that it is fluid, dynamically ever changing, regenerating and evolving. No single element, individual, group or arena is immune. This results in remote nurses not being passive tenants in their own social world but actors who must be responsive, assertive, malleable, proactive and flexible to ‘survive’ while acting within the situation. ‘People [remote nurses] inhabit many different domains at once...and the negotiation of identities, within and across groups, is an extraordinarily complex and delicate task’ (Star, 1991, p. 52).