The Posthumanist Epistemology of Practice Theory : Re-Imagining Method in Organization Studies and Beyond

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910770269603321
• Autore: Cozza Michela
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Cham : , : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2024; ©2023
• ISBN: 3-031-42276-7
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (232 pages)
• Altri autori (Persone): GherardiSilvia
• Disciplina: 658.001
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- 1: Introduction: The Posthumanist Epistemology of Practice Theory -- The Re-discovery of Practice in Organization Studies -- Relational Materiality -- Practice as Agencement -- Overcoming the Theory/Method Divide -- Re-imagining Concepts -- Re-imagining Methods -- The Structure of the Book -- References -- Part I: Re-imagining Concepts -- 2: Knowing-in-Practice, Its Traces and Ingredients -- Introduction -- Archaeological Documentation and Knowledge-Making -- Two Perspectives to Writing Archaeological Reports -- Traces in Archaeological Reports -- Ingredients in Archaeological Reports -- Traces as Ingredients and Ingredients as Traces -- Discussion -- Characterising Traces and Ingredients -- How: Trace and Ingredient-Making Reduces and Contributes to the Elusiveness of Knowing -- What: Stability and Volatility of Traces and Ingredients -- When: Knowing Happening in Practice -- Conclusions -- References -- 3: Shadowy Research Practices and Apocryphal Knowledge: Last Data Standing? -- Introduction -- Shadow Organizing, Not-Yet Data, and Dwelling in the Shadow -- The Nexus Project -- The Research Process and Data Production -- Discussion -- The Normative Enactment of Data -- Responsible Research Practices, Epistemologies, and Shadow Organizing -- Concluding Reflections -- References -- 4: Becoming Together in Research Practices -- Introduction -- Becoming Together: ; A Posthumanist Perspective on Research Practice -- Methodological Issues: More Than Humans and Nonhumans in Two Situated Research Practices -- Becoming Together in Laboratory Everyday Life -- Becoming Allies with Nonhuman Actors in Diabetes Self-Management -- Discussion and Conclusion -- References -- Part II: Re-imagining Methods.; 5: Dancing Urban Waters. A Posthuman Feminist Perspective on Arts-Based Practice for Sustainable Education -- Introduction -- Posthuman Feminism and Aesthetic Learning Processes -- Workshop: Dancing Urban Waters -- Workshop Introduction -- Exploring and Performing Materialities and Coexisting Relations in the Flooded City -- Walking in Flooded Gandia-Becoming Bodies of Water -- Protecting &amp -- Blocking: Water Encountering Hard Infrastructures -- Giving Room &amp -- Receiving: Water/Soil Gestures -- Elements of a Posthumanist Research Agenda for Education in Sustainability -- Multiplying the Ways of Learning -- Moving/Becoming with Materialities as Empathic Learning -- Dance as a Process for Creative, Embodied and Participative Learning in Sustainability in Higher Education -- References -- 6: Alice in Wondertheatre: An Affective Ethnography -- Introduction -- Affective Ethnography -- Affective Ethnography in a Theatre Workshop -- A Theatre Workshop -- Inside the Workshop -- Discussion -- Conclusion -- References -- 7: Objects, People, Stories, Places. A Nomadic Inquiry into Language Professional Identity -- Exploring New Territories -- Nomadic Identitities -- Destabilising Data -- Invisible Stories -- Objects, People, Places, Stories -- Openings -- References -- 8: Afterwards: The Limits of Datafication After Method -- References -- Index.