Critical Aspects of the Software Industry in Chile: An Ethnographic Study

Inequality in the promised land: Race, resources, and suburban schooling is a well-written book by L’ Heureux Lewis-McCoy. The book is based on Lewis-McCoy’s doctoral dissertation, that included an ethnographic study in a suburban area named Rolling Acres in the Midwestern United States. Lewis-McCoy studied the relationship between families and those families’ relationships with schools. Through this study, the author explored how invisible inequality and racism in an affluent suburban area became the barrier for racial and economically minority students to grow up academically. Lewis-McCoy also discovered the hope of the minority community for raising their children for a better future.

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Achieving Collaborative Aims through Multiple Identity Construction: Managing a public inter-organizational collaboration

BORDER CROSSING ◽

10.33182/bc.v5i1-2.510 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 5 (1-2) ◽

pp. 1-15

Author(s):

Isidora Kourti

Keyword(s):

Identity Construction ◽

Public Services ◽

Ethnographic Study ◽

Effective Management ◽

Collaborative Process ◽

Stability And Change ◽

Multiple Identity ◽

Organizational Collaboration

Although public inter-organizational collaborations can offer better public services, their management is a complex endeavour and they often fail. This paper explores identity construction as a key aspect that assists in managing successfully these collaborations. The study draws upon a longitudinal ethnographic study with a Greek public inter-organizational collaboration. The research illustrates that managers should encourage partners to construct collaborative and non-collaborative identities in order to achieve the collaboration aims. It also suggests that managers should seek both stability and change in the collaborative process and offers four collaborative patterns for the effective management of public inter-organizational collaborations.

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Translating Deleuze: On the Uses of Deleuze in a Non-Western Context

Deleuze Studies ◽

10.3366/dls.2013.0114 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 7 (3) ◽

pp. 319-329

Author(s):

Yu-lin Lee

Keyword(s):

Literary Theory ◽

Chinese Context ◽

East West ◽

Critical Aspects

This paper aims to explore the appropriation of Deleuzian literary theory in the Chinese context and its potential for mapping a new global poetics. The purpose of this treatment is thus twofold: first, it will redefine the East–West literary relationship, and second, it will seek a new ethics of life, as endorsed by Deleuze's philosophy of immanence. One finds an affinity between literature and life in Deleuze's philosophy: in short, literature appears as the passage of life and an enterprise of health and thus seeks new possibilities of life, which consists in the invention of a new language and a new people. But what kind of health may such a view provide for a non-Western individual, people, literature and culture? This investigation further appeals to the medium of translation. This paper argues that the act of translation functions as a means of deterritorialisation that displays continuing variations of a language, and through translation, Deleuze's clinical and critical aspects of literature promote a transversal poetics that transcends the binary, oppositional conception of East–West and an immanent ethics of life that overcomes the sentiment of ressentiment.

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