scholarly journals En teoretisk utdyping av rom og materialitet som pedagogisk ressurs i barnehagen

2015 ◽  
Vol 10 ◽  
Author(s):  
Solveig Nordtømme
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Network Theory ◽  
Methodological Approach ◽  
Actor Network Theory ◽  
Erving Goffman ◽  
Bodily Experience ◽  
Phenomenology Of Perception ◽  
Kindergarten Teaching ◽  
Shed Light ◽  
Empirical Material

Abstract: This article is a theoretical exploration with the aim of discussing an ontological basis for space and materiality as educational resources in kindergarten. Attention is directed on children’s play experiences interacting with space and materiality, and how children use and create space. The metaphors front stage, space in between, and backstage (inspired from Erving Goffman, 1969), which form the study's main findings, are used as the backdrop for the issue and analyzes. The empirical material used in this exploration has been collected with an ethnographic methodological approach in two kindergartens. Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s (1962) focus on bodily experience and presence in space, along with concepts from Latour’s (2005) actor-network theory, is used to explore the data. The article contributes with theoretical tools for professionals in kindergarten teaching, to shed light on the importance of space, materiality and play in children's everyday life in kindergarten.Sammendrag: Denne artikkelen diskuterer et ontologisk grunnlag og er en teoretisk utforskning av rom og materialitet som en pedagogisk ressurs i barnehagen. Oppmerksomheten er rettet mot barns lekeerfaringer i samspill med rom og materialitet, og hvordan barn bruker og skaper rom. Metaforene hovedrom, mellomrom, og bakrom (inspirert fra Erving Goffman, 1969), som danner studiens hovedfunn, blir brukt som et bakteppe for problemstilling og analyser av det empiriske materialet fra to barnehager. Maurice Merleau-Ponty publikasjoner The Phenomenology of Perception (Merleau-Ponty, 1962) med sitt fokus på kroppslig erfaring i levd rom, blir brukt sammen med begreper fra Latours aktør-nettverksteori (Latour 2005) til å utforske hvordan rom og materialitet kan være pedagogiske ressurser. Artikkelens kunnskapsbidrag er å presentere et teoretisk verktøy for barnehageprofesjonen og kunnskaper om lekens betydning i barns hverdag i barnehagen.

A theatrical conception of power

2020 ◽  
pp. 147488512092277 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leonard Mazzone
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Network Theory ◽  
Social Power ◽  
Actor Network Theory ◽  
Kenneth Burke ◽  
Erving Goffman ◽  
Actor Network ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
The Face ◽  
Theatrical Representation

In this article I will combine Erving Goffman’s sociology with some of the main aspects of Actor-Network Theory in order to outline a theatrical conception of social power. My first aim is to try to summarize the sociological perspective introduced by Kenneth Burke and then improved on by Erving Goffman to understand the face-to-face interactions of everyday life. Secondly, I will try to use the theatrical metaphor underlying this theoretical framework to describe power-over relations in everyday life. Thanks to the combination of the dramaturgical theory proposed by Erving Goffman and the ‘object turn’ given to social theory by Actor-Network Theory, a theatrical conception of power allows the episodic, dispositional and systemic dimensions of power relations to be mapped respectively depending on the actors’ performances, their roles of power and the institutionalized scripts. Moreover, this theatrical representation of power-over relations is a defaced understanding of the phenomenon that enables us to investigate not only its different directional forms (power-to, -over and -with), but also their possible variants (empowerment, resistance, domination and solidarity).

From coal to cool: Reordering nature in post-Soviet Kyrgyzstan

2019 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 141-163
Author(s):  
Anne Gry Sturød
Keyword(s):  
Political Ecology ◽  
Coal Mining ◽  
Network Theory ◽  
Tourism Development ◽  
Actor Network Theory ◽  
Tourism Destination ◽  
Actor Network ◽  
Empirical Material ◽  
Rule Out

The article studies the transformation of a Kyrgyz coal-mining village into a tourism destination. By combining political ecology research approaches with concepts borrowed from Actor Network Theory (ANT), I attempt to show how nature-based tourism development contributes to a reordering of nature in certain ways rather than others. Supported by my empirical material, I suggest that this reordering of nature makes certain realities emerge, while others submerge. However, while some orderings of natures appear to be representing reality, it does not necessarily rule out multiple understandings of how nature “ought to look” or be used.

Lice work: Non-human trajectories in volunteer tourism

2019 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 238-257 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amira Benali ◽  
Carina Ren
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Network Theory ◽  
Actor Network Theory ◽  
Head Lice ◽  
Volunteer Tourism ◽  
Actor Network ◽  
Volunteer Experiences ◽  
Human Actors

This article studies volunteer tourism by following the trajectories of a non-human actor. Based on fieldwork at a Nepalese orphanage and drawing on insights from the material semiotics of Actor–Network Theory, we describe how the louse interferes as an unexpected actor with volunteer tourism at the orphanage. This post-human approach decentres the volunteer and destabilises the host–guest binary while adding to our understanding of tourism practices as complex and materially distributed endeavours. We analyse two configurations of head lice enacted through a modern morality of hygiene and Nepalese everyday life and show how they are deployed, contested and reconfigured onsite by volunteer tourism actors. By exploring patterns of absence and presence and using the concept of ontological choreography as an analytical resource, we show how the situated lice work of human and non-human actors at the orphanage offers new ways to grasp the forging of volunteer experiences and subjectivities.

scholarly journals Using actor-network theory to reveal strategy processes in design firms

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Alison RIEPLE ◽  
Antonius VAN DEN BROEK
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Network Theory ◽  
Methodological Approach ◽  
Actor Network Theory ◽  
Digital Design ◽  
Strategy Development ◽  
Actor Network ◽  
The Rich ◽  
Actor Networks ◽  
Design Firms

In this paper we illustrate the utility of actor-network theory (ANT) as a methodological approach to understand the effect of the eclectic characteristics of design firms on their strategy development processes. The need for creativity, expertise knowledge and the constant need to innovate suggest that the mainstream strategy or decision-making theories provide unsatisfying insights into how strategy of the design firm emerges. These culture laden organisations often operate with limited formality, therefore require attention to the social side of decision-making. To address this rich complex social-fabric of decision-making, we suggest to study strategy development as the result of the formation of actor-networks. By illustration of data collected from 13 interviews with design firms in mainly Europe and a longitudinal study of a global digital design firm, we illustrate how an ANT-based approach allows theorists to analyse the rich cultural complexity of design firms’ decision-making in a focused and coherent manner.

The actor-network theory as a method in the analysis of Samarco disaster in Brazil

2019 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 176-191
Author(s):  
Camilla Zanon Bussular ◽  
Cecília Gerhardt Burtet ◽  
Cláudia Simone Antonello
Keyword(s):  
Network Theory ◽  
Methodological Approach ◽  
Actor Network Theory ◽  
Social World ◽  
Actor Network ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Research Fields ◽  
The Social ◽  
Methodological Aspects ◽  
Empirical Demonstration

Purpose The actor-network theory (ANT) has been understood as a method, as a way of engaging in the social world and also transform it. The purpose of this paper is to show the ANT methodological aspects, provide an empirical demonstration of this approach as a method, and promote a debate about the implications and importance of understanding it as a method and not just as a theory. Design/methodology/approach By analyzing the criticisms of ANT seminal concepts and its repercussions, the authors have offered an understanding of its methodological aspects and its implications for the practice of research. An empirical study conducted in Brazil is presented to exemplify the use of ANT as a method. Findings The methodological reflection of this approach starts from the recognition that the methods are part of the social world that they research; they are totally imbued with theoretical representations of this world; they are social because they also help to constitute this social world. As a method, ANT seeks to understand the process of stabilizing practices, negotiations and controversies that are established when such practices are in the process of being. In that sense, following the relational disputes that build a practice before their stabilization is the task to be accomplished for the researcher in the field. Research limitations/implications The paper offers relevant contributions to the understanding of ANT as a method. The authors encourage other researchers to venture into the development of this approach in future studies that further explore its methodological character. Originality/value There are not many studies on ANT as a method. If ANT is also a method, can we apply it to any research? The authors hope to bring this matter to discussion, understanding and questioning the use of this theoretical-methodological approach in the research fields.

Introduction to the Special Issue: The Day-to-Day Lives of Cultures and Communities

2017 ◽  
Vol 38 (6) ◽  
pp. 723-732 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Weeks ◽  
Galit Ailon ◽  
Mary Yoko Brannen
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Social Activity ◽  
Public Organization ◽  
Religious Organization ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Erving Goffman ◽  
Self Image ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities ◽  
The Face ◽  
Shed Light

In a sense, the study of everyday life epitomizes the challenges and opportunities of ethnography. The papers in this Special Issue show how the close examination of the day-to-day lives of people in idiosyncratic settings can shed light on universal questions, complicate the elegant narratives we tell ourselves about what we know, enrich our theories, and expand our sphere of empathy. Although the study of everyday life can be traced back at least as far back as the turn of the 20th century, reaching its apogee after the middle of the century, especially in the writings of Erving Goffman and Harold Garfinkel, it remains as uncommon as its object is commonplace. That is because it is easy to overlook the importance of what is happening when ‘nothing’ is happening and difficult to uncover what is significant about ‘the dust of social activity’. We argue—and the papers that follow show—that the details of the day-to-day can not only be unexpectedly interesting in their specifics but also a source of general theoretical insights about communities, organizations, and teams: their continuity, change and contradictions. What the papers have in common (with each other and with Goffman’s work) is an attention to the work that people do every day to sustain their particular self-image in the face of ongoing, mundane challenges of various sorts to the ways they like to think of and present their world and their place within it. This work to maintain the edges of meaning hides in plain sight and occupies us constantly, whether we are part of a public organization, a religious organization, a profit-seeking organization, a profit-resisting organization, an organization-less organization, or we are students of organizations marking the unremarkable.

scholarly journals The Collaborative Process of Sustainable Innovations under the Lens of Actor–Network Theory

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (19) ◽  
pp. 10756
Author(s):  
Kadia Georges Aka ◽  
François Labelle
Keyword(s):  
Network Theory ◽  
Actor Network Theory ◽  
Collaborative Process ◽  
Innovation Development ◽  
Actor Network ◽  
Collaborative Processes ◽  
Sustainable Innovation ◽  
The Moment ◽  
Attraction And Retention ◽  
Shed Light

The development of sustainable innovation (SI) is complex and risky due to the characteristics and diversity of actors involved in its process. Little is known about the collaborative process underlying this development. The objective of the paper is to explore the collaborative mechanisms and dynamics that influence the process and characteristics of sustainable innovations. The translation approach of the actor–network theory is applied to shed light on the collaborative process of two cases of sustainable innovations within small- and medium-sized enterprises. The sociotechnical graph method is used as a methodology to track the mechanisms and compare the dynamics of their processes. The results reveal that the governance characteristic of sustainable innovations and the moment of mobilization are essential aspects of the collaborative processes. They show that, depending on the intensity and systemic impacts of SI, attraction and retention are important mechanisms in the construction of the governance characteristics of SI. A manager who uses these mechanisms during the mobilization of actors, having resources related to the governance characteristics, succeeds in sustainable innovation development. The paper contributes to the literature on sustainability management by linking the ‘becoming’ of sustainable innovations to their collaborative processes. It also informs managers on how to manage the collaborative process of sustainable innovations by relying on a translation approach.

scholarly journals The concept of flow interactions in the sociological everyday-life studies

2016 ◽  
pp. 28-30
Author(s):  
A. Nedzelskyi
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Network Theory ◽  
Social Order ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
Actor Network Theory ◽  
Theoretical Research ◽  
Flow Structures ◽  
The Social ◽  
Flow Interactions ◽  
Definition Of

The article is devoted to analysis of the ways of using the "flow interaction" concept in sociological everyday-life studies and to development a definition of the concept. In particular for achievement the theoretical research aim, the author applies a set of fundamental sociological theories such as: the social practices theory, J. Alexander's cultural sociology, B. Latour's actor-network theory which have significant heuristic value for everyday-life sociology. The article argues that in modern society spread practices of temporal daily life structures development. Upgrading the theories of social order constitution on a basis of concepts of network and flow structures allows to develop the sociological knowledge about every-day life and routine practices.

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