scholarly journals Trust and Organization: Integrating Responses to Freshwater Contamination within the Everyday Work of a Care Organization

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jörgen Sparf
Keyword(s):  
Care Organization ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Everyday Work ◽  
Freshwater Contamination

Striking Factory and Strike of Consciousness in the Work of S. M. Eisenstein

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elen Vogman
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Soviet Union ◽  
Human Body ◽  
Body Movements ◽  
The Soviet Union ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Everyday Work ◽  
Political Model

The Soviet Union of the 1920s produces and supports multiple connections between the policy of work in factories and the research in medical, neurological, and collective physiology. The theatrical and cinematic work of S. M. Eisenstein forms a specific prism where these interconnections appear in a spectrum of concrete attempts to engage the factory as an aesthetic and political model. The factory as a concrete topos which Eisenstein exploits in Gas Masks and Strike questions the interrelations between the human body and machine in a new iconology of a striking factory. For the duration of the Strike, the factory is represented beyond any functionality: the workers’ body movements and gestures are all the more expressive the less they have to do with their everyday work. This modulated status of production appears in Capital, Eisenstein’s unfulfilled project to realize Marx’s political economy with methods of inner monologue invented by Joyce. This last project transfigures the factory strike into the structure of cinematographic thinking where the neuro-sensorial stimuli constantly strike the logic of the everyday consciousness in the non-personal, polyphonic, and intimate monologue.

Swedish preschool leadership – supportive of music or not?

2014 ◽  
Vol 32 (2) ◽  
pp. 163-175 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna Ehrlin
Keyword(s):  
Social Development ◽  
Role Models ◽  
Teaching Tool ◽  
Crucial Importance ◽  
Further Training ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Everyday Work ◽  
Preschool Leadership

This study uses observations and interviews to investigate how the leadership at three Swedish preschools in Sweden has impacted the didactic choices made. Two of these preschools use music as a tool for stimulating language and social development, while the third preschool serves as a comparison. The inspiration that the leadership has brought to each institution is of crucial importance to incorporating music and other activities into the everyday work. This influence has been both restrictive and supportive. Music is said to function as a teaching tool, while other functions remain in the background. This contradiction and its implications are discussed, and it is argued that further training should include developing the teachers’ musical-didactic awareness. Principals are most certainly role models at preschools and need to be aware of it.

A Stable Environment

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katharine Dow
Keyword(s):  
Assisted Reproductive Technologies ◽  
Reproductive Technologies ◽  
Assisted Conception ◽  
Reproductive Ethics ◽  
Maternal Bonding ◽  
Single Sex ◽  
The People ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Everyday Work ◽  
Good Reproduction

This chapter concludes that the book has explored what the people of Spey Bay think about the ethics of reproduction and assisted reproductive technologies in order to elucidate what reproductive ethics is, not only in the sense of what people judge to be good but also in terms of what counts as belonging to the domain of ethics. In Spey Bay, the key values people associated with “good” reproduction and parenthood were responsibility, care, and altruism and one way they expressed this was in the hope that people—and not necessarily only the infertile or single-sex couples—would consider adoption or fostering before turning to assisted conception. In this ethnography, the book has also introduced the concept of ethical labor to describe some of the characteristics of the everyday work that goes into making a good life in Spey Bay. It has examined what the people thought about surrogacy, maternal bonding, and environmentalism.

IS-Related Organizational Change and the Necessity of Techno-Organizational Co-Design(-In-Use)

2012 ◽  
pp. 289-310
Author(s):  
Chiara Bassetti
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Change ◽  
Action Research ◽  
Change Management ◽  
Emergency Response ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Cooperative Work ◽  
Medical Emergency ◽  
Transformative Potential ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Everyday Work

This chapter considers some aspects of an ethnomethodologically oriented ethnography that has been carried out in a medical Emergency Response Centre (ERC) before, during, and after an IS-related organizational change. After a description of the everyday work in the ERC and its larger social arena, the authors discuss the main changes and the users group’s resistance that mediated the new technologies’ transformative potential: the rejection of abandoning ‘old’ cooperative work practices, and the emergence of an innovative one, with its own condition of appropriateness, applicability, and accountability. Finally, starting from the evidence that solutions to problems emerging in a field must be coherent with the endogenous organization of activities of that field, with the configuration of inter-actions that actually sets up that context, the authors discuss the necessity of co-design(-in-use), and the possibilities provided by ethnomethodological ethnography as a tool for action research in IT design and techno-organizational change management.

Leszek Ziątkowski

2001 ◽  
pp. 393-395
Author(s):  
Marcin Wodzinski
Keyword(s):  
Jewish Population ◽  
Religious Life ◽  
Doctoral Dissertation ◽  
Political Life ◽  
Demographic Development ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Everyday Work ◽  
History Of ◽  
Key Issues ◽  
The Impact

This chapter explores The Jewish Population of Breslau, 1812–1914. This book is a fragment of a doctoral dissertation by Leszek Ziątkowski. Only the part discussing two key issues in the life of the Breslau Jewish community: its demographic development and its socio-topography was published. Despite the book's many strengths, the chapter mostly addresses its many weaknesses. It remarks that the book's title promises much more than we get. In vain one looks for information on important events in the history of Breslau Jews: on the emancipation edict and the impact of the Prussian ‘Jewish’ legislation on the everyday work of the Breslau kehilah; on religious life (including the famous Tiktin–Geiger controversy); on social, economic, and political life; on the role played by the Jewish Theological Seminar, and other key issues. This thus leaves the reader with a sense of dissatisfaction — more so for the fact that there is currently no monograph describing this period in the history of Breslau's Jews.

Configurations of leadership practices in hospital units

2015 ◽  
Vol 29 (7) ◽  
pp. 1115-1130 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ninna Meier
Keyword(s):  
Leadership Practices ◽  
Clinical Work ◽  
Comparative Case Study ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Clinical Settings ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Work Settings ◽  
Hospital Units ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Everyday Work

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore how leadership is practiced across four different hospital units. Design/methodology/approach – The study is a comparative case study of four hospital units, based on detailed observations of the everyday work practices, interactions and interviews with ten interdisciplinary clinical managers. Findings – Comparing leadership as configurations of practices across four different clinical settings, the author shows how flexible and often shared leadership practices were embedded in and central to the core clinical work in all units studied here, especially in more unpredictable work settings. Practices of symbolic work and emotional support to staff were particularly important when patients were severely ill. Research limitations/implications – Based on a study conducted with qualitative methods, these results cannot be expected to apply in all clinical settings. Future research is invited to extend the findings presented here by exploring leadership practices from a micro-level perspective in additional health care contexts: particularly the embedded and emergent nature of such practices. Practical implications – This paper shows leadership practices to be primarily embedded in the clinical work and often shared across organizational or professional boundaries. Originality/value – This paper demonstrated how leadership practices are embedded in the everyday work in hospital units. Moreover, the analysis shows how configurations of leadership practices varied in four different clinical settings, thus contributing with contextual accounts of leadership as practice, and suggested “configurations of practice” as a way to carve out similarities and differences in leadership practices across settings.

Tomorrow I’ll Be at the Table: Black Geographies and Urban Planning: A Review of the Literature

2020 ◽  
Vol 35 (4) ◽  
pp. 460-474
Author(s):  
Anna Livia Brand ◽  
Charles Miller
Keyword(s):  
Urban Planning ◽  
Racial Difference ◽  
Ways Of Knowing ◽  
Professional Practices ◽  
Review Of The Literature ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Everyday Work ◽  
Black Geographies ◽  
The Relationship

This article reviews the literature on black geographies as it relates to the everyday work of urban planners. We outline the major claims and contributions of this scholarship to deepen our understanding of the relationship between the social and physical worlds. This article argues that this literature is a critical, yet missing, contribution to the field of urban planning because it provides different ways of knowing and understanding the experience of racial difference and therefore challenges us to invite more diverse views to the table and build more informed professional practices, pedagogical foundations, and empirical scholarship.

scholarly journals Working out Douglas’s aphorism: Discarded objects, categorisation practices, and moral inquiries

2019 ◽  
Vol 67 (4) ◽  
pp. 866-885 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jonathan Ablitt ◽  
Robin James Smith
Keyword(s):  
Moral Reasoning ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Everyday Work ◽  
Working Out

This article aims to reconsider Mary Douglas’s well-known aphorism – that, ‘where there is dirt there is system’ – through the work of street-cleaning in and the handling of detritus in the Upper Town district of Gibraltar. In ‘working out’ the aphorism, we adopt an ethnomethodological approach and focus upon the description of situated categorisation practices in the treatment of waste and dirt. The article is thus concerned with the methods in and through which objects are handled in the everyday work of street-cleaning. We describe these practices across three sections concerned with: the seeing of waste as a situated accomplishment; the practical distinction between objects to be removed and those to be left in situ; and the seeing of categories through discarded objects. In this way, rather than explaining the practices of street-cleaners via recourse to a notion of ‘system’, we recover the ways in which objects come to be treated, in a situated sense, as a potential ‘inference-rich’ resource for moral reasoning relating to residual categories and predicates of people and places.

Career Confidential

2018 ◽  
Vol 99 (7) ◽  
pp. 78-78
Author(s):  
Phyllis L. Fagell
Keyword(s):  
Safe Place ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Everyday Work

Following the recent shootings at the Marjory Stoneman Douglas School in Parkland, Fla., many educators are struggling to manage their feelings of uncertainty and helplessness. How does one stay focused on the everyday work of teaching when school no longer seems like a safe place to be? Start by trying to regain some semblance of control, the author recommends.

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