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Alessia Contu
Researcher at University of Massachusetts Boston
Publications - 38
Citations - 2035
Alessia Contu is an academic researcher from University of Massachusetts Boston. The author has contributed to research in topics: Praxis & Politics. The author has an hindex of 16, co-authored 32 publications receiving 1797 citations. Previous affiliations of Alessia Contu include University of Massachusetts Amherst & Lancaster University.
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Re-Embedding Situatedness: The Importance of Power Relations in Learning Theory
Alessia Contu,Hugh Willmott +1 more
TL;DR: A revitalization of situated learning theory is commend in which learning practices are understood to be enabled and constrained by their embeddedness in relations of power; and, more specifically, by the unstable institutionalization of power relations within capitalist work organizations.
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Decaf Resistance: On Misbehavior, Cynicism, and Desire in Liberal Workplaces
TL;DR: The Ethics of the Real as mentioned in this paper argues that resistance, as a real act, which suspends and changes the constellation of power relations, has a cost that cannot be accounted for in advance.
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You Spin Me Round: The Realist Turn in Organization and Management Studies
Alessia Contu,Hugh Willmott +1 more
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Comment on Wenger and Yanow. Knowing in Practice: A `Delicate Flower' in the Organizational Learning Field
Alessia Contu,Hugh Willmott +1 more
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Studying Practice: Situating Talking About Machines
Alessia Contu,Hugh Willmott +1 more
TL;DR: This paper revisited how, in TAM, a careful examination of work practice is commended by Orr as a way of "deepen[ing] our under-standings" about "the relations of employment and the role of work in the constitution of workers' identity".