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I. Shaw

Bio: I. Shaw is an academic researcher. The author has an hindex of 1, co-authored 1 publications receiving 411 citations.

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01 Jan 2010

537 citations


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TL;DR: In this article, the authors propose the concept of "spacing", which orients the understanding of organizational space towards its material, embodied, affective and minor configurations, and discuss the consequences of such a performative approach to space for the practice and craft of organizational scholarship.
Abstract: This article connects to and extends the attempts to bring space back into critical organizational theory, which, we argue, has mainly been based on the socio-spatial perspective as pioneered by Henri Lefebvre. Taking issue with the various ways in which Lefebvre's work can be interpreted, we develop an alternative route. Adopting a mode of non-representational theorizing as outlined in human geography, we propose the concept of ‘spacing', which orients the understanding of organizational space towards its material, embodied, affective and minor configurations. In discussing the consequences of such a performative approach to space for the practice and craft of organizational scholarship, we argue that our conceptual opening entails a move from representational strategies of extracting representations of the (organizational) world from the world to embodied apprehensions of the everyday performing of organizational space. What can be termed the enactment of organizational geographies in slow motion is inspired and illustrated by the video ‘The Raft' conceived by the artist Bill Viola.

278 citations

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TL;DR: A note of caution among researchers who wholly embrace the call for mobile methods, which are frequently justified by an assumption that "conventional" or "traditional" methods have failed as discussed by the authors.

219 citations

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TL;DR: In this article, the authors question the assumption that the dynamism of institutional logics and practice variations is the result of rivalry among logics, of tensions, of competition among actors and logics.
Abstract: This paper questions a key assumption in the organizations literature that the dynamism of institutional logics and practice variations is the result of rivalry among logics and actors, of tensions...

137 citations

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TL;DR: In this article, the authors explore the interrelationship of space, the elements and the embodied experiences of water-based physical activity, and propose body pedagogics as analytically useful in exploring social and environmental action in local and global spaces.
Abstract: This paper explores the interrelationship of space, the elements and the embodied experiences of water-based physical activity. It draws upon alternative forms of research and representation to draw out the embodied nature of the experiences in exploring the practices of windsurfing amongst communities of windsurfers. It proposes that ethnography and autoethnography can provide for unique insights into the embodied experiences of the life-worlds of ‘being’ in nature. These inter-related methodologies provide particular insights into understanding when the body, grounded through its senses, makes sense of and interacts with its natural surroundings. It argues that autoethnography may provide methodologies for understanding and analysing connections between personal embodied nature-based experiences, culture and nature. This paper brings into play personal experience in windsurfing and autoethnographies of other nature-based sport to uncover connections between body, affects, emotions and the senses as the body engages with natural elements. It engages with expressions of spirituality, as alternative to ‘flow’, and the speculative notion of kinetic empathy to propose the concept of body pedagogics as analytically useful in exploring social and environmental action in local and global spaces.

111 citations

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TL;DR: Focusing on the use of nonrepresentational theory as a research methodology, the paper points to the limits of this approach for children's political formation as well as for sustained scholarly collaboration.
Abstract: Reflecting wider debates in the discipline, recent scholarship in children's geographies has focused attention on the meanings of the political. While supportive of work that opens up new avenues for conceptualizing politics beyond the liberal rational subject, we provide a critique of research methods which delink politics from historical context and relations of power. Focusing on the use of nonrepresentational theory as a research methodology, the paper points to the limits of this approach for children's political formation as well as for sustained scholarly collaboration. We argue instead for a politics of articulation, in the double sense of communication and connection. An empirical case study is used as an illustrative example.

98 citations