Showing papers by "Hugo Letiche published in 2008"

Workplace learning: narrative and professionalization

Abstract: Purpose – To show how the stories told by people in organisations need to be reckoned with in order to give change a chance.Design/methodology/approach – The paper's approach is a case study and analytical approach to storytelling.Findings – Stories are told from different perspectives, related to what needs to be achieved by the audience.Research limitations/implications – The scope of the paper is framed by the analytical approach to storytelling which in this case is related to learning modes.Practical implications – Organisations that are open for change need to give room to individual voice/stories in order to live up to the possibilities of change.Originality/value – Stories do not always address an audience that is supposed to hear the story; they can get out of control.

Aging: Narrative micro-sociology versus globalization

Abstract: The social psychology of globalization brings a constant sense of flow, identity loss and of destabilization. It is as if one is always just next to or near, but not quite at the point of meaning and of significance. Radical (postmodern) theory, celebrates just these circumstances and feelings (Deleuze & Guattari, 1987, A thousand plateaus. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press; 1996, Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism & schizophrenia. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press). In this article, the results of depth interviews with two life-care or continuing-care community residents, illustrate the social psychology of flow, involution, and the rhizomic on the experiential level. The micro-psychological narratives of those studied; display their fear for globalization's de- and re-territorializations. For the elderly, the phenomenology of bodieswithout- organs may be more threatening than liberating. Moreover, for researchers, the "petits re´cits" of narrative research, may remain normatively crucial. Key words: Globalization and aging, the social-psychology of globalization, ethnographic narrative, Deleuze & Guattari