The Yoga Studies Dispositif

2021 ◽  
Vol 33 (5) ◽  
pp. 505-529
Author(s):  
Matteo Di Placido
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Production ◽  
Boundary Work ◽  
Boundary Object ◽  
Field Of Study ◽  
Discursive Strategies ◽  
Primary Object ◽  
Modern Yoga ◽  
Preliminary Account

Abstract In this paper I provide a preliminary account of the Yoga Studies Dispositif, that is, that specific apparatus of knowledge production, legitimization, and dissemination that has allowed the birth and development of the discipline of “modern yoga research” as an autonomous field of study and, in turn, has asserted the study of modern forms of yoga as its primary object of inquiry. More specifically, and in line with the constructionist epistemology taken by the “discursive study of religion” approach, I focus on the processes of boundary-work and boundary-object creation of modern yoga research and argue that these are the most influential discursive strategies adopted in the formation of this new discipline. Following on this premise, I contend that similar processes of demarcation and conceptual production are also pivotal to the birth and development of other sub-disciplines within the study of religion.

scholarly journals Decolonising the Rainbow Flag

2017 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 193-217 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pia Laskar ◽  
Anna Johansson ◽  
Diana Mulinari
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Knowledge Production ◽  
Buenos Aires ◽  
Boundary Object ◽  
War Zone ◽  
Ethnographic Approach ◽  
Peripheral Location ◽  
Global North ◽  
North And South ◽  
North Sweden

The aim of the article is to explore the location and the meaning given to the rainbow flag in places outside the hegemonic center. Through three case studies in the global North and South, held together by a multi-ethnographic approach, as well as a certain theoretical tension between the rainbow flag as a boundary object and/or a floating signifier, we seek to study where the flag belongs, to whom it belongs, with particular focus on how. The three case studies, which are situated in a city in the Global South (Buenos Aires), in a conflict war zone in the Middle East (the West Bank) and in a racialised neighbourhood in the Global North (Sweden), share despite their diversity a peripheral location to hegemonic forms of knowledge production regimes. Central to our analysis is how the rainbow flag is given a multitude of original and radical different meanings that may challenge the colonial/Eurocentric notions which up to a certain extent are embedded in the rainbow flag.

scholarly journals Using Boundary Objects to Co-Create Community Health and Water Knowledge with Community-Based Medical Anthropology and Indigenous Knowledge

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 49-76
Author(s):  
Sarah Duignan ◽  
Tina Moffat ◽  
Dawn Martin-Hill
Keyword(s):  
Community Health ◽  
Indigenous Knowledge ◽  
Medical Anthropology ◽  
Health Survey ◽  
Water Contamination ◽  
Boundary Work ◽  
Boundary Objects ◽  
Boundary Object ◽  
Health Priorities ◽  
Community Based

This article explores how Indigenous Knowledge and medical anthropology can co-construct community health knowledge through boundary work and the use of boundary objects. It will highlight how community-based participatory research (CBPR) in medical anthropology can help co-develop methods and strategies with Indigenous research partners to assess the human health impact of the First Nations water crisis. We draw on a case study of our community-based approach to health research with Six Nations of the Grand River First Nation community stakeholders and McMaster University researchers. We highlight how framing a co-constructed health survey as a boundary object can create dialogical space for Indigenous and western academic pedagogies and priorities. We also explore how this CBPR anthropology approach, informed by Indigenous Knowledge, allows for deeper foundations of culturally centered health to guide our work in identifying current and future community health needs concerning these ongoing water contamination and access issues. Through three health survey versions, priorities and research questions shifted and expanded to suit growing community health priorities. This led to collaborative action to communicate specific messages around water contamination and access across governance, community, and institutional boundaries. We demonstrate how our co-constructed approach and boundary work allows for the respectful and reciprocal development of these long-term research partnerships and works in solidarity with the Two-Row Wampum (Kaswentha) treaty established by the Haudenosaunee Nation and European settler nations. 

scholarly journals Not Just Merely Different: Travelling Theories, Post-Feminism and the Racialized Politics of Women of Color

2018 ◽  
Vol 35 (3) ◽  
pp. 197-206 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aarti Ratna
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Production ◽  
Women Of Color ◽  
Field Of Study ◽  
Critical Studies ◽  
Essential Step ◽  
Critical Scholarship ◽  
Original Case ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Do So

When even the so-called “critical” scholarship about women of color and sport, mostly speaks to cultural tropes of difference, the possibility of recovering alternative knowledges becomes limited. For me, uncovering persistent problems from within this field of study, is an essential step to better recovering diverse representations of difference, that are sometimes consciously, and at other times inadvertently, erased. Adding my voice to a number of sport scholars who advocate a decolonising approach, I urge contemporary researchers to theoretically reconsider, and to re-frame, their analysis of difference. In this paper, I do so by utilizing a transnational feminist lens; addressing the transient boundaries of space, identity, belonging, and knowledge production. I specifically elucidate how difference is made, and not just experienced. Through this theoretical intervention, I make an original case for how the “critical” can be put back into critical studies of race, sport and gender.

scholarly journals Gendered Boundary-work within the Finnish Skepticism Movement

2020 ◽  
pp. 016224392094747
Author(s):  
Pia Vuolanto ◽  
Marjo Kolehmainen
Keyword(s):  
Social Movements ◽  
Critical Thinking ◽  
Alternative Medicine ◽  
Social Movement ◽  
Complementary And Alternative Medicine ◽  
Knowledge Production ◽  
Boundary Work ◽  
The Status ◽  
Popular Magazine ◽  
True Science

As a worldwide social movement, skepticism aims to promote science and critical thinking. However, by analyzing texts published in the magazine of the Finnish skepticism movement between 1988 and 2017, we find that the movement carries out its mission in a way that maintains and produces gendered hierarchies. We identify six forms of gendered boundary-work in the data: (1) science as masculine, (2) questioning women, (3) complementary and alternative medicine as feminine, (4) debating the status of gender studies, (5) gender within the skepticism movement, and (6) supporting equality. Gender is an important aspect of the boundary-work undertaken by the movement to establish boundaries between science and nonscience. The forms of gendered boundary-work contribute to the idea of “true” science as a masculine and male-dominated domain, excluding women from both science and the skepticism movement. Even when the exclusions are subtle, hidden, or humorous, they nevertheless produce gendered inequalities by excluding women, belittling women’s knowledge production, or granting women-only dismissive recognition. Indeed, our analysis indicates that there is a need to look deeply into science-based social movements: exclusive structural tactics are part and parcel of such movements’ mundane activities, as our examples from Skepsis ry’s popular magazine demonstrate.

scholarly journals Boundary work between research communities: Culture and power in a French nanosciences and nanotechnology hub

2013 ◽  
Vol 52 (1) ◽  
pp. 134-158 ◽  
Author(s):  
Morgan Jouvenet
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Production ◽  
Boundary Work ◽  
Scientific Activity ◽  
The Other ◽  
Cultural Dimension ◽  
Local Competition ◽  
Research Communities ◽  
Professional Boundary ◽  
Economic Expectations ◽  
Local Research

Today, nanoscience and nanotechnology (NS/T) is one of the most visible domains of scientific activity. Its promises rest especially on a convergence dynamics that brings various research communities closer together. This convergence is interdisciplinary, but it also renews links between applied and basic science. Nanoscale-related folk myths and economic expectations are well documented, as are interventions of policymakers. Lab-level relations have on the other hand been less studied. Based on a qualitative study conducted in one of France’s main NS/T centres, this article shows how researchers experience boundaries in the workplace. Indeed, as local physicists are prompted to plan heterogeneous projects, they stress the importance of cultural and professional distinctions between local research communities. If Shinn’s ‘regimes of knowledge production’ offer useful conceptual tools to make sense of interactions and distinctions in this science and technology hub, the cultural dimension of exchanges and resistances has nevertheless to be emphasized in this framework. For the interviewed scientists, professional boundary work has furthermore a clear political meaning, while their collective rhetoric is also a way to claim credit in the local competition for institutional favours.

scholarly journals O Organization, Where Art Thou? Tracing the Multiple Layers of Ambiguous and Shifting Boundary Processes in a Formal Organization

2016 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 116 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marte Fanneløb Giskeødegård
Keyword(s):  
Boundary Work ◽  
Organizational Form ◽  
Boundary Object ◽  
Formal Organization ◽  
Organizational Boundaries ◽  
Shared Space ◽  
Continuous Work ◽  
External Actors ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

In this article, I use an empirical case from a Norwegian transnational maritime company to discuss organizational boundaries and, implicitly, organizational form. I focus on the relationship of the formal organization as a legal entity to its outside world and ask how boundary work toward external actors takes form. My empirical case shows that there is not an unproblematic “inside” that engages with the outside world and, as a result, I question the usefulness of some of the concepts used to talk about boundary processes. To understand the latter, where the boundaries drawn are multiple, flexible, and dependent on the situation, I adopt Bowker and Star’s (2000) concept of “boundary object,” which allows the discussion to focus on boundaries in terms of the continuous work of making a “shared space”, rather than of limits between the various parties.  

scholarly journals Boundary work in value co-creation practices: the mediating role of cognitive assistants

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Cristina Mele ◽  
Tiziana Russo-Spena ◽  
MariaLuisa Marzullo ◽  
Andrea Ruggiero
Keyword(s):  
Intelligent Agents ◽  
Healthy Lifestyle ◽  
Boundary Work ◽  
Boundary Objects ◽  
Boundary Object ◽  
Ageing Population ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Formal Caregivers ◽  
Mediating Role

PurposeHow to improve healthcare for the ageing population is attracting academia attention. Emerging technologies (i.e. robots and intelligent agents) look relevant. This paper aims to analyze the role of cognitive assistants as boundary objects in value co-creation practices. We include the perceptions of the main actors – patients, (in)formal caregivers, healthcare professionals – for a fuller network perspective to understand the potential overlap between boundary work and value co-creation practices.Design/methodology/approachWe adopted a grounded approach to gain a contextual understanding design to effectively interpret context and meanings related to human–robot interactions. The study context concerns 21 health solutions that had embedded the Watson cognitive platform and its adoption by the youngest cohort (50–64-year-olds) of the ageing population.FindingsThe cognitive assistant acts as a boundary object by bridging actors, resources and activities. It enacts the boundary work of actors (both ageing and professional, caregivers, families) consisting of four main actions (automated dialoguing, augmented sharing, connected learning and multilayered trusting) that elicit two ageing value co-creation practices: empowering ageing actors in medical care and engaging ageing actors in a healthy lifestyle.Originality/valueWe frame the role of cognitive assistants as boundary objects enabling the boundary work of ageing actors for value co-creation. A cognitive assistant is an “object of activity” that mediates in actors' boundary work by offering novel resource interfaces and widening resource access and resourceness. The boundary work of ageing actors lies in a smarter resource integration that yields broader applications for augmented agency.

Introduction

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-12
Author(s):  
Julie Thompson Klein
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Knowledge Production ◽  
Product Innovation ◽  
Boundary Work ◽  
Global South ◽  
Team Science ◽  
Linguistic Markers ◽  
The North ◽  
Mode 2 ◽  
Methodological Approaches

The Introduction establishes a framework for the book. Heeding Barry and Born’s admonition to map heterogeneity of interdisciplinarity, it accounts for activities associated with, but not entirely encompassed by, the keyword. The Introduction also situates interdisciplinarity in relation to two other concepts, disciplinarity and transdisciplinarity, as well as intersections with convergence, team science, Mode 2 knowledge production, wicked problems, and postdisciplinarity. The framework encompasses linguistic markers of meaning as well: including Pejoration (negative connotations), Amelioration (positive associations), Narrowing (restricted uses), and Broadening (expanded meaning). As a result, interdisciplinarity is a conflicted discourse. Claims range from epistemology and methodology to social justice and product innovation. The introduction also introduces a dual focus on crossdisciplinary work (encompassing multi-, inter-, and trans-disciplinarity) and cross-sector work (bridging academic, governmental, industrial, and communities in the North and Global South). Finally, it defines two methodological approaches: boundary work and triangulation of rhetorical, sociological, and historiographical analyses.

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