scholarly journals Airing Grievances

Lateral ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ian Reilly
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Production ◽  
Boundary Work ◽  
Institutional Critique ◽  
Shed Light

Through an examination of the 2018 “grievance studies” hoax this essay considers the role hoaxing plays in the articulation of both internal and external modes of institutional critique that pertain to the production, verification, and dissemination of knowledge. By examining the grievances of three academics who wrote twenty false/fraudulent articles—seven of which were published in (and later retracted from) peer-reviewed journals—this research attends to the different kinds of boundary work and repair that are performed and enacted by academics to shed light on the conflicting ways knowledge production and academic labour are currently contextualized and understood.

The power of the cover: Symbolic contests around the Boston bombing suspect’s Rolling Stone cover

Journalism ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 18 (3) ◽  
pp. 281-297 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joy Jenkins ◽  
Edson C Tandoc
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Analysis ◽  
Critical Incident ◽  
Boundary Work ◽  
Cultural Meaning ◽  
Cover Story ◽  
Interpretive Community ◽  
Rolling Stone ◽  
Boston Marathon ◽  
Journalistic Field ◽  
Shed Light

Rolling Stone ignited a debate in July 2013 when it published a cover featuring alleged Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. The online version of the cover story drew comments expressing criticism and support of the cover. A qualitative analysis of comments posted within the first week of the cover story shed light on the image’s institutional meaning for Rolling Stone and cultural meaning for readers. Assessing this cover as a critical incident, this study shows how readers, through their comments, participated in the ongoing boundary work in the journalistic field, joining journalism’s interpretive community in defining professional roles, norms, and routines.

Making collaboration work – developing boundary work and boundary awareness in emergency exercises

2017 ◽  
Vol 29 (4) ◽  
pp. 286-303 ◽  
Author(s):  
Annika Andersson ◽  
Berner Lindström
Keyword(s):  
Life Experiences ◽  
Boundary Work ◽  
Collaborative Work ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Rescue Services ◽  
Hazardous Environments ◽  
Important Challenge ◽  
Alternative Solutions ◽  
Shed Light

Purpose This study aims to investigate how boundary work is carried out at the incident site during exercises with police, ambulance and rescue services, and how boundary awareness is developed based on this boundary work. Collaboration in emergency work is challenging on many levels. The unforeseen and temporary nature of incidents presents basic challenges. Another important challenge is boundaries between specialised and autonomous emergency service organisations. Knowledge on how exercises are performed to increase the individuals' and organisations' preparedness for future joint-response work is relatively limited. Design/methodology/approach Empirically, full-scale exercises involving police, ambulance and rescue services and with repetition of practical scenarios and joint-reflection seminars are studied. Interview data with 26 exercise participants were analysed using thematic analysis. The analytic focus is on how boundaries are identified, negotiated and managed in the participants’ work. Findings Much of the work in the exercises was performed within distinct areas of expertise, in accordance with concrete routines, skills and responsibilities. Boundary work was often organised in the form of distribution of labour or creating chains of actions. The exercises shed light on challenges related to other aspects of emergency response, such as a lack of resources, diverging primary responsibilities, time-criticality and hazardous environments. The design allowed participants to explicate boundaries, to test and discuss alternative solutions and to visualise the effects of different solutions, as the scenarios were repeated. Originality/value The study found that the boundaries that were identified were often of institutional character, and were also related to the specific scenarios and to the actions taken in the activities. By integrating real-life experiences of collaborative work in the exercise, the exercise gained a certain meaning that was essential for the participants to develop boundary awareness.

scholarly journals Hybrid professionalism in journalism: Opportunities and risks of hacker sources

2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Philip Di Salvo ◽  
Colin Porlezza
Keyword(s):  
Field Theory ◽  
Public Interest ◽  
Boundary Work ◽  
Online News ◽  
Data Driven ◽  
News Magazine ◽  
News Sources ◽  
Journalistic Field ◽  
Shed Light

Hackers have a double relevance with regard to the transformation of the journalistic field: first, they have established themselves as journalistic actors, even if their work may sometimes seem unfamiliar. Second, hackers have not only become important sources for information but they are also a topic of public interest in a data-driven society increasingly threatened by surveillance capitalism. This paper critically discusses the role of hackers as news sources by analyzing the “stalkerware” investigation carried out by the online news magazine Motherboard. Drawing from field theory and boundary work, the article sheds light on how hackers exert an increasing influence on journalism, its practices, epistemologies, and ethics, resulting in an increasing hybridization of journalism. Journalism has become a dynamic space, in which hackers are not only becoming relevant actors in the journalism field, but they often represent the only sources journalists have to shed light on wrongdoings. Hence, hackers are increasingly defining the conditions under which journalism is carried out, both in terms of its practices as well as in its normative framework.

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.

Migration as Survival

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 12-25
Author(s):  
Gerhild Perl
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Production ◽  
Historical Time ◽  
Life Threatening ◽  
Political Understanding ◽  
Shed Light ◽  
Life Threatening Event

How to write about survival? How to tell survival? By exploring manifold reasons to withhold a story, I shed light on the limits of ethnographic knowledge production and the politics of storytelling that mobilize one story and silence another. Through engaging with the fragmented narrative of a Moroccan survivor of a shipwreck in Spanish waters in 2003, I reconceptualize the movement called “migration as survival” by theorizing it as an ethnographic concept. I explore the different temporalities of survival as living through a life-threatening event and as living on in an unjust world. These interrelated temporalities of survival are embedded in the afterlife of the historical time of al-Andalus and the resurgent fear of the Muslim “Other.” By suggesting an existentially informed political understanding of the survival story, I show how the singularity of the survivor is inscribed in a regime of mobility that constrains people and their stories.

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 From Exploration to Design: Aligning Intentionality in Community Informatics Projects

2015 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ammar Halabi ◽  
Amalia Sabiescu ◽  
Salomão David ◽  
Sara Vannini ◽  
David Nemer
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Production ◽  
Community Informatics ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Participatory Approaches ◽  
Data Intensive ◽  
Action Taking ◽  
Community Projects ◽  
Research And Design ◽  
Shed Light ◽  
The Continuum

This article focuses on a particular aspect of research and design processes in community-based projects: the transition from exploratory stages, concerned with knowledge production, to design stages, in which goals for action-taking are formulated and desired directions for change are envisioned. This paper offers a reflection about the methodological processes that underpin this transition, in response to the questions: How are design goals formulated in community informatics interventions that rely on data-intensive exploratory methodologies, and what factors and dynamics shape them? Guided by these questions, we shed light on various issues related to this transition by recounting and analysing cases taken from field experiences within three different community projects in Syria, Brazil and Mozambique. The article proposes that the transition is associated with shifts in intentionality, which are elusive and hard to grasp, particularly in participatory approaches. Three analytical categories are put forward to illuminate the dynamics of intentionality shifts along the continuum of transitioning from exploration to design. Reflections based on the empirical cases are contributed.

Going by the Book: What International Law Textbooks Teach Us Not to Know

2021 ◽  
pp. 293-308
Author(s):  
Ana Luísa Bernardino
Keyword(s):  
Social Cognition ◽  
International Law ◽  
Knowledge Production ◽  
International Lawyer ◽  
Cognition And Knowledge ◽  
Shed Light

International law textbooks are one of the most powerful invisible frames of our discipline. This chapter analyses some of the most influential international law textbooks as important objects of study that shed light on both processes of social cognition and knowledge production. It examines international law textbooks as engines of sociomental control that delimit the realm of the ‘relevant’ in international law. It also highlights how textbooks’ unarticulated assumptions, silences, and implicit messages help to constitute the discipline of international law, not only in the sense of influencing what counts as international law, but also what one thinks about and what one does as an international lawyer.

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.

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