Boundary practices of citizenship

2017 ◽  
pp. 143-158 ◽  
Author(s):  
Huub van Baar
Keyword(s):  
Boundary Practices

New Trading Zones in Contemporary Universities

2019 ◽  
Vol 49 (6) ◽  
pp. 510-527
Author(s):  
Svetlana Shibarshina
Keyword(s):  
Common Ground ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Local Context ◽  
Contemporary Society ◽  
Trading Zones ◽  
New Concepts ◽  
Boundary Practices ◽  
Research Integration ◽  
The University

This article aims to distinguish and depict the features of communications and collaborations in contemporary universities through the concept of trading zones. The author also considers the role that the idea of a digital university might play in shaping interactions in transforming local context where different actors can find a common ground of exchange. The new contexts, including the pragmatic orientation of contemporary society and new technologies and environments, contribute to reconsidering the idea of the classical university, in which interactions between professors and students have outstepped customary collaborations in laboratories, as well as the idea of education and research integration. This article focuses on distinguishing new forms of interactions, boundary practices, and environments, which are suggested by today’s universities. Proceeding from them, the author argues that new concepts of the university, such as the digital university, and renovated campuses—to some extent—contribute to the adaptation of a renewed idea of Humboldt’s Bildung.

CLOWN SCOUTING AND CASTING AT THE CIRQUE DU SOLEIL: DESIGNING BOUNDARY PRACTICES FOR TALENT DEVELOPMENT AND KNOWLEDGE CREATION

2016 ◽  
Vol 20 (04) ◽  
pp. 1640006 ◽  
Author(s):  
THIERRY GATEAU ◽  
LAURENT SIMON
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Creation ◽  
Talent Development ◽  
Talent Management ◽  
Creative Industries ◽  
Shared Reality ◽  
Cirque Du Soleil ◽  
Hr Management ◽  
Boundary Practices ◽  
Development Engineering ◽  
And Training

A significant part of management in creative organisations is the discovery, development, and engagement of the creative talents. These activities require practices at the intersection of talent management, knowledge management and HR management. In this paper, we observed a bootcamp held at Cirque du Soleil in order to experiment with new casting and training practices for a scarce and specific occupational creative community: clowns. Our study shows that this bootcamp provides context at the borders of distinct practices: recruitment, training, and exploration. This intermediary zone allows the emergence of a boundary practice: the co-construction of what actors of the organisation and members of the communities do, make and learn to connect, create and understand new meaning of their shared reality in performance and exploration. This concept contributes to an improved understanding of the management of scarce talents in knowledge-and-creativity intensive fields, as hi-tech industries, software development, engineering, or creative industries.

scholarly journals Through an activity theory lens: Conceptualizing service learning as 'boundary work'

2009 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
pp. 39-60 ◽  
Author(s):  
Janice McMillan
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Service Learning ◽  
Activity Theory ◽  
Boundary Work ◽  
Boundary Zone ◽  
Boundary Practices ◽  
Higher Education And Society ◽  
Education And Society ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Relationship

Michael Gibbons (2005) has spoken about the need to re-imagine the relationship between higher education and society and he calls for the emergence of a ‘new social contract’. In particular he highlights three elements of this new form of engagement: contextualization, boundary objects, and transaction spaces or boundary zones. It is here that my paper is located – in the conceptualization of the ‘boundary zone’ at the nexus of higher education and society, with a focus on service learning as practice. In the literature on higher education there appears to be little evidence describing ways of conceptualizing and understanding the boundary zone itself. Most of the service learning research literature for instance, looks either at the university side of the relationship or at the impact on the community (and even then only in very few cases). In order to better understand the ‘push and pull’ of service learning, we need to better understand better what happens in the transaction/boundary zone in the first instance. In order to do this, we need to develop conceptual tools to illuminate the complex practices that occur at this nexus. Drawing on situated learning, post Vygotskian theory and activity theory in particular, I develop a framework for service learning conceived as ‘boundary work’. This framework illuminates inherent contradictions in these trans-boundary practices, and the argument is therefore that unless we understand these practices better and in more nuanced ways, we are in no position to improve them and consequently our understandings of this form of educational practice remain unaltered. Finally, by raising a number of questions about boundary practices at the end of the paper, I provide some ways of taking this conceptualization project further.

scholarly journals Boundary practices at incident sites

2014 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 65-76 ◽  
Author(s):  
Linda Kvarnlöf ◽  
Roine Johansson
Keyword(s):  
Emergency Services ◽  
Division Of Labour ◽  
Joint Work ◽  
Content Type ◽  
The Public ◽  
Negotiated Order ◽  
Emergency Personnel ◽  
Boundary Practices ◽  
Depth Interviews ◽  
Source Of Information

Purpose – Incident sites can be described as the joint work site of the emergency services, where one of their challenges is to interact with the public. The purpose of this paper is to study how this interaction is structured by the emergency personnel's jurisdictional claims. Design/methodology/approach – This paper rests upon qualitative method and in-depth interviews. In total, 28 people have been interviewed, out of which 13 are emergency personnel and 15 are unaffiliated volunteers. The interview material has been analysed qualitatively and thematically by the authors. Findings – The findings show that the interaction between emergency personnel and unaffiliated volunteers can be described in terms of three different boundary practices: cordoning off, division of labour and conversation, varying in degrees of inclusion and exclusion. The result shows that the emergency personnel's relationship to volunteers is ambivalent, as they are both seen as an uncertain element at the incident site in need of control and as a valuable source of information. Originality/value – While most other studies have been focusing on the interaction between emergency organizations, the authors have investigated the interaction between emergency organizations and a group previously unstudied: unaffiliated volunteers. While sociologists in the field of boundary work normally describe boundary practices in terms of negotiation, sympathizing with the concept of negotiated order, the results point to the fact that boundaries are not necessarily a subject for negotiation.

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