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Lueg, Klarissa, and Peter Kastberg. "Communication as constitutive of work practices." Communication & Language at Work 5, no. 1 (September 9, 2018): 1–3. http://dx.doi.org/10.7146/claw.v5i1.108095.
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Henriksen, Ida Marie, Marianne Skaar, and Aksel Tjora. "The Constitutive Practices of Public Smartphone Use." Societies 10, no. 4 (October 10, 2020): 78. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/soc10040078.
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The smartphone has become the most ubiquitous piece of personal technology, giving it significant social importance and sociological relevance. In this article, we explore how the smartphone interacts with and impacts social interaction in the setting of the urban café. Through analyzing 52 spontaneous in-depth interviews related to social interaction in cafés, we identify three categories of smartphone use in social settings: interaction suspension, deliberately shielding interaction, and accessing shareables. These categories comprise the constitutive smartphone practices that define the social order of public smartphone use within an interactionist sociological framework.
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García-Carpintero, Manuel. "Conventions and Constitutive Norms." Journal of Social Ontology 5, no. 1 (October 24, 2019): 35–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/jso-2019-0013.
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AbstractThe paper addresses a popular argument that accounts of assertion in terms of constitutive norms are incompatible with conventionalism about assertion. The argument appeals to an alleged modal asymmetry: constitutive rules are essential to the acts they characterize, and therefore the obligations they impose necessarily apply to every instance; conventions are arbitrary, and thus can only contingently regulate the practices they establish. The paper argues that this line of reasoning fails to establish any modal asymmetry, by invoking the distinction between the non-discriminating existence across possible worlds of types (“blueprints”, as Rawls called them) of practices and institutions defined by constitutive rules, and the discriminating existence of those among them that are actually in force, and hence truly normative. The necessity of practices defined by constitutive rules that the argument relies on concerns the former, while conventionalist claims are only about the latter. The paper should thus contribute to get a better understanding of what social constructs conceived as defined by constitutive norms are. It concludes by suggesting considerations that are relevant to deciding whether assertion is in fact conventional.
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Vargas, Manuel. "Constitutive Instrumentalism and the Fragility of Responsibility." Monist 104, no. 4 (September 4, 2021): 427–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/monist/onab010.
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Abstract Constitutive instrumentalism is the view that responsibility practices arise from and are justified by our being prosocial creatures who need responsibility practices to secure specific kinds of social goods. In particular, responsibility practices shape agency in ways that disposes adherence to norms that enable goods of shared cooperative life. The mechanics of everyday responsibility practices operate, in part, via costly signaling about the suitability of agents for coordination and cooperation under conditions of shared cooperative life. So, there are a range of identifiable conditions where the ordinary operation of responsibility practices—and thus, the usual normative force of the practices—is disrupted. Even so, these conditions are not so widespread as to favor a more thoroughgoing abandonment of responsibility practices.
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Gehring, Thomas, and Thomas Dörfler. "Constitutive mechanisms of UN Security Council practices: Precedent pressure, ratchet effect, and council action regarding intrastate conflicts." Review of International Studies 45, no. 1 (October 8, 2018): 120–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0260210518000268.
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AbstractBased upon the current debate on international practices with its focus on taken-for-granted everyday practices, we examine how Security Council practices may affect member state action and collective decisions on intrastate conflicts. We outline a concept that integrates the structuring effect of practices and their emergence from interaction among reflective actors. It promises to overcome the unresolved tension between understanding practices as a social regularity and as a fluid entity. We analyse the constitutive mechanisms of two Council practices that affect collective decisions on intrastate conflicts and elucidate how even reflective Council members become enmeshed with the constraining implications of evolving practices and their normative implications. (1) Previous Council decisions create precedent pressure and give rise to a virtually uncontested permissive Council practice that defines the purview for intervention into such conflicts. (2) A ratcheting practice forces opponents to choose between accepting steadily reinforced Council action, as occurred regarding Sudan/Darfur, and outright blockade, as in the case of Syria. We conclude that practices constitute a source of influence that is not captured by the traditional perspectives on Council activities as the consequence of geopolitical interests or of externally evolving international norms like the ‘responsibility to protect’ (R2P).
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Watson, Rod. "Constitutive Practices and Garfinkel’s Notion of Trust: Revisited." Journal of Classical Sociology 9, no. 4 (November 2009): 475–99. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1468795x09344453.
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This article is intended to reinstate, in at least a prefatory way, some ethnomethodological (EM) considerations concerning trust. The idea of constitutive practices — as it was taken up in Garfinkel’s sociology — turned on trust as a background condition for mutually intelligible action. Starting with a consideration of Garfinkel’s 1963 study of trust, the article critically considers some formal analytic alternates to his approach. The aspects of trust that are ‘elusive’ to the formal-analytic approach are shown to result from its allusive treatment by formal analysis. In Garfinkel’s hands trust is not elusive. The critique of formal analytic studies builds on Garfinkel’s writings and certain strands of analytic and ordinary language philosophy. These sources ground the author’s suggestion that the study of trust be taken up again, albeit along respecified analytic lines. Examples are given, both of an EM and conversation-analytic (CA) kind.
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Arancibia Martínez, Leticia, and Gloria Cáceres Julio. "La reflexividad como dispositivo crítico en la práctica del Trabajo Social." Trabajo Social Global-Global Social Work 2, no. 3 (June 30, 2011): 1–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.30827/tsg-gsw.v2i3.916.
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Reconociendo las diversas construcciones teórico-prácticas del objeto del Trabajo social, así como la posición que éste ha ocupado históricamente en la división socio-técnica del trabajo, el artículo plantea la práctica del Trabajo social como una práctica social. Desde tal premisa, se postula el desarrollo de prácticas reflexivas y se aborda el concepto de reflexividad como elemento constitutivo de las mismas, lo que permite reconocer en un doble movimiento la necesaria interrogación, develando los marcos de lectura, los intereses e intencionalidades del profesional y de los otros actores implicados en la práctica social. En este sentido, la reflexividad como eje constitutivo de la práctica nos remite a ella como praxis, posibilitando generar procesos de transformación y no sólo la reproducción de lo existente.This paper proposes that the practice in Social Work is a social practice itself, taking into account both the diversity of theoretical-practice constructions of the object of Social Work, as well as the position that it is has historically occupied within the social-technical division of work. From this perspective, the paper stands up for development of reflexive practices, from a concept of reflexivity that is the constitutive element of such practices. It let us recognize a necessary questioning with a double movement regarding the reading frames, interests and purposes of both the professional and the rest of actors involved in social practice. In this sense, reflexivity is a constitutive axe of practice remits us to it as praxis. This makes it possible to generate processes of transformation beyond the existing reproduction.
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Greenberg, Mark. "ON PRACTICES AND THE LAW." Legal Theory 12, no. 2 (June 2006): 113–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1352325206060253.
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In a recent paper, “How Facts Make Law,” I launch an attack on a fundamental doctrine of legal positivism. I argue that nonnormative facts cannot themselves constitutively determine the content of the law. In a response published in this journal, Ram Neta defends the view that nonnormative social facts are sufficient to determine normative facts, including both moral and legal facts. Neta's paper provides a useful opportunity to address a spelled-out version of this view, which in various forms is widely held in philosophy of law and other areas of philosophy. I begin by addressing Neta's attempts to show that descriptive facts can alone determine moral and legal facts. First, Neta's account of why it is wrong to break promises fails. In addition to other problems, it begs the question by taking for granted that a person's desires or other motivational states necessarily justify the actions that they motivate. Next, I turn to Neta's attempt to provide a counterexample to my view about law. In my original paper, I claim that the nature of the constitutive determination relation in the legal domain is what I callrational determination. Roughly speaking, a full constitutive account of the legal facts must include reasons that explain the relation between the determining facts and the legal facts. The facts on which Neta's putative counterexample depends cannot be reasons of the required sort because they take for granted what they are supposed to explain—the way in which nonnormative social facts contribute to the content of the law. Finally, I address the larger issue of how far my argument applies to other domains. I consider and reject Neta's argument that purports to show that all normative domains have the relevant features of the legal domain. I then sketch a competing picture of some normative domains.
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Larner, Wendy, and Richard Le Heron. "The Spaces and Subjects of a Globalising Economy: A Situated Exploration of Method." Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 20, no. 6 (December 2002): 753–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.1068/d284t.
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In this paper we aspire to develop a situated method in order to interrogate the spaces and subjects of the globalising economy. In our brief review of the social science literatures on economic globalisation, we identify a promising intellectual convergence around the theme of imaginaries. We develop an argument that global imaginaries involve both discourses and practices that are, in turn, constitutive of new spaces and subjects. We identify the particular significance of calculative practices such as benchmarking and allied techniques in constituting global imaginaries in the New Zealand context. We then demonstrate how our method might inform a case study of the globalising retail-banking sector by revealing multiple spaces and subjects. In analysing the emergence of new economic spaces and subjectivities in this way, our aim is to give situated content to the concept of global imaginaries and to make visible the constitutive power of governing practices.
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Sun, Hao. "Shifting practices and emerging patterns: Telephone service encounters in Shanghai." Language in Society 41, no. 4 (August 23, 2012): 417–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0047404512000498.
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AbstractThis study explores the dynamic nature of language in context, utilizing two sets of comparable Chinese discourse data of telephone service encounters collected in the same community a decade apart. It describes and characterizes current business practices and identifies shifts in discursive practices in light of the patterns observed in the past. Observed changes include constitutive components of the global structure, local realization of the structural elements, and interaction dynamics as a result of changed, redefined contexts and realigned footings. I propose that observed shifts may represent and constitute in part the emergence in the community of the reconstruction, or reshaping, of a more distinctive telephone service encounter (TSE) spoken genre and related discursive features. With the adoption of more recognizable boundary markers, shifts in discursive practice of telephone service encounters in Shanghai may result in openings with distinguishable features from calls made to residences. (Discourse analysis, service encounter, practice, telephone in business, China, spoken genre)*
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Faraj, Samer, and Stella Pachidi. "Beyond Uberization: The co-constitution of technology and organizing." Organization Theory 2, no. 1 (January 2021): 263178772199520. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2631787721995205.
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Uberization has emerged as a platform-based form of organizing that is reshaping work and labour markets and that is fundamentally challenging existing thinking on organizing. We suggest that organizational theorists have been reluctant to address the constitutive relation between technology and organizing. By emphasizing co-constitution, we argue against viewing technology as an entity that is separate, exogenous, or causal. Instead, we offer that technology can be fruitfully viewed as endogenous to and constitutively entwined with organizational actions and structures. To illustrate this co-constitution, we present a brief analysis of Uberization from a regime of organizing perspective that emphasizes how organizing practices, valuation schemes, authority arrangements and technological arrangements are entwined with each other. We conclude with an invitation to organizational theorists to more specifically engage with technology as they theorize new forms of organizing.
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Cold-Ravnkilde, Signe Marie, and Katja Lindskov Jacobsen. "Disentangling the security traffic jam in the Sahel: constitutive effects of contemporary interventionism." International Affairs 96, no. 4 (July 1, 2020): 855–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ia/iiaa093.
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Abstract Despite years of ongoing interventions by multiple external and regional actors, the security situation in west Africa's Sahel region is dramatically deteriorating. In this introduction to the special section of the July 2020 issue of International Affairs, we zoom in on four major external international intervention actors (France, the United States, the European Union and the United Nations) in the Sahel region's escalating ‘security traffic jam’. We argue that the diversity of intervention actors makes the Sahel a paradigmatic case for exploring a set of often-overlooked constitutive intervention effects. By adding new temporal, relational and spatial dimensions to the notion of ‘constitutive effects’ as introduced by post-structuralists in the 1990s, we (re)launch constitutive effects as a conceptual framework for approaching the study of ongoing intervention engagements. From this perspective, and as further illustrated in this special section, intervention continuity and escalation cannot be explained simply with reference to frameworks of ‘success’ or ‘failure’, but require a broader conceptualization of effects, including how specific threat perceptions, rationales and problematizations get constituted and consolidated through and during ongoing intervention practice. Contributions to this special section each unpack a diverse set of constitutive effects including the contested performance of security actorness, the (un)making of security alliances and partnerships, logics of choices produced by ongoing intervention practices, as well as the constitution of conditions for continual international involvement.
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Rawls, Anne W., Adam Jeffery, and David Mann. "Locating the modern sacred: Moral/social facts and constitutive practices." Journal of Classical Sociology 16, no. 1 (November 18, 2013): 53–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1468795x13497137.
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Flatt, Emma. "Practicing Friendship: Epistolary Constructions of Social Intimacy in the Bahmani Sultanate." Studies in History 33, no. 1 (February 2017): 61–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0257643016677445.
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This article considers epistolary friendships in the fifteenth-century Bahmani Sultanate. Focusing on letters written by the Bahmani Vizier, Mahmud Gavan, to distant friends in other parts of the Persianate world, including the Timurid Sufi-poet Jami, I examine how friendship could be constituted through the practice of letter-writing. I argue that despite common assumptions about the rule-bound and formulaic nature of the genre of inshāʿ (letter-writing), correspondents could subtly mobilize the generic rules to conjure up unique and potent metaphorical declarations of friendship. Second, I argue that the dense semiotic field created by the recurrent use of similar images and chains of metaphors to symbolize friendship in letters reified certain practices as constitutive of friendship, and thus actually contributed to friendship practices in the ‘real’ world. Finally, I suggest that the metaphorical language used in inshāʿ is not merely an ornamental flourish, but actually an attempt to constitute an alternative reality: By writing to each other in terms which evoked the friendship practices of physically proximate friends, two friends separated by distance could metaphorically undertake those practices together.
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Hopwood, Nick. "Four essential dimensions of workplace learning." Journal of Workplace Learning 26, no. 6/7 (September 8, 2014): 349–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/jwl-09-2013-0069.
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Purpose – This conceptual paper aims to argue that times, spaces, bodies and things constitute four essential dimensions of workplace learning. It examines how practices relate or hang together, taking Gherardi’s texture of practices or connectedness in action as the foundation for making visible essential but often overlooked dimensions of workplace learning. Design/methodology/approach – This framework is located within and adds to contemporary sociomaterial- or practice-based approaches, in which learning is understood as an emergent requirement and product of ongoing practice that cannot be specified in advance. Findings – The four dimensions are essential in two senses: they are the constitutive essence of textures of practices: what they are made of and they are non-optional; it is not possible to conceive a texture of practices without all of these dimensions present. Although the conceptual terrains to which they point overlap considerably, they remain useful as analytic points of departure. Each reveals something that is less clear in the others. Research limitations/implications – This innovative framework responds to calls to better understand how practices hang together, and offers a toolkit that reflects the multifaceted nature of practice. It presents a distinctive basis for making sense of connectedness in action, and thus for understanding learning in work. Originality/value – The paper offers a novel conceptual framework, expanding the texture of practices through dimensions of times, spaces, bodies and things, rendering visible aspects that might otherwise be ignored.
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Jacobsen, Katja Lindskov. "Intervention, Materiality, and Contemporary Somali Counterpiracy." Journal of Global Security Studies 5, no. 3 (September 6, 2019): 511–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jogss/ogz035.
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AbstractTaking seriously debates in IR about the significance of materiality and noticing the prominence of materiality in contemporary counterpiracy interventions, this article combines insights from Science and Technology Studies (STS) with insights from the poststructuralist intervention literature. Both literatures highlight the importance of “constitutive effects.” Poststructuralists do so with attention to the effects of intervention in constituting, temporarily, the meaning of sovereignty, and STS scholars do so with attention to constitutive effects that processes at the level of materiality give rise to. By combining these two literatures, this article asks: how might we think about the constitutive effects of material aspects of counterpiracy interventions? This question is explored through a focus on two donor-funded pirate prisons in Somalia. By operationalizing the STS notions of coproduction (Jasanoff 2004c) and solution/problem-framings (Beck et al. 2016), the article broadens the study of how intervention practices give rise to constitutive effects by explicitly attending to processes at the level of materiality. This approach enables the article to highlight an important tension in contemporary intervention practices: a tension between donor's desire to delimit intervention contributions and the risk that such contributions (including presumably more easily delineated material aspects) give rise to effects that challenge this faith in neatly delimited forms of intervention. This tension is not only relevant in relation to Somali counterpiracy, but also in other intervention contexts. The article thus illustrates how STS insights can help advance our appreciation of the manifold dimensions and effects of contemporary interventionism.
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Mooney, Margarita A., and Nicolette D. Manglos-Weber. "Prayer and Liturgy as Constitutive-Ends Practices in Black Immigrant Communities." Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour 44, no. 4 (July 8, 2014): 459–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jtsb.12066.
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Hess, Leopold. "Practices of Slur Use." Grazer Philosophische Studien 97, no. 1 (March 4, 2020): 86–105. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/18756735-09701006.
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Given the apparent nondisplaceability and noncancellability of the derogatory content of slurs, it may appear puzzling that non-derogatory uses of slurs exist. Moreover, these uses seem to be in general available only to in-group speakers, thereby exhibiting a peculiar kind of context-sensitivity. In this paper the author argues that to understand non-derogatory uses we should consider slurs in terms of the kind of social practice their uses instantiate. A suitable theory of social practices has been proposed by McMillan. In typical (derogatory) uses the practice is one of bigotry and discrimination. Non-derogatory uses are only possible to the extent that they consitute acts of an alternative, non-derogatory practice. In the core cases it must be a subversive practice of satire or reappropriation. The social identity of speakers is not an ultimately decisive factor (in-group uses may still be derogatory) but it is an important constitutive condition: most non-derogatory practices of slur-use can only be performed by a member of the target group.
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Molander, Susanna, and Benjamin Julien Hartmann. "Emotion and practice." Marketing Theory 18, no. 3 (February 8, 2018): 371–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1470593117753979.
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While emotions are a central facet of consumer culture, relatively little is known about how they are tied to the embodied and tacit aspects of everyday living. This article explores how practices organize emotions and vice versa. Pairing Schatzki’s teleoaffective structure with emotions understood as intensities that are deeply inscribed in the structural blueprints of practices, we propose that the organization of emotions and practices is recursive and based on three teleoaffective episodes: anticipating, actualizing, and assessing. To illustrate this, we present an analysis of empirical material from an ethnographic study on mothering. The practice–emotion link we unfold contributes to understanding the operation of emotions in consumer culture by specifying how practices and emotions are co-constitutive. This offers novel insights into the embodied and routinized nature of emotions, illuminates the connection between practices and individuals, and highlights the role of emotions in practice change.
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Richardson, Laurel. "New Writing Practices in Qualitative Research." Sociology of Sport Journal 17, no. 1 (March 2000): 5–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.1123/ssj.17.1.5.
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New writing practices in qualitative research include evocative writing—a research practice through which we can investigate how we construct the world, ourselves, and others, and how standard objectifying practices of social science unnecessarily limit us and social science. Evocative representations do not take writing for granted but offer multiple ways of thinking about a topic, reaching diverse audiences, and nurturing the writer. They also offer an opportunity for rethinking criteria used to judge research and reconsidering institutional practices and their effects on community. Language is a constitutive force, creating a particular view of reality and the Self. No textual staging is ever innocent (including this one). Styles of writing are neither fixed nor neutral but reflect the historically shifting domination of particular schools or paradigms. Social scientific writing, like all other forms of writing, is a sociohistorical construction, and, therefore, mutable.
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Aalberts, Tanja. "Misrecognition in legal practice: the aporia of the Family of Nations." Review of International Studies 44, no. 5 (November 20, 2018): 863–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0260210518000384.
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AbstractThis article discusses the concept of misrecognition to analyse international legal ordering in the practice of colonial treatymaking. As critical interventions to the debate on recognition have made clear, recognition is about exclusion as much as it is about inclusion. The most obvious example is the nineteenth-century applications of the standard of civilisation, where the European Family of Nations introduced the criterion of ‘civilisation’, which excluded non-European entities as sovereigns and legitimised their colonisation. But at the same time colonial treaties included the ‘savage rulers’ as signatory powers, and thus legal persons within the international legal order that at once excluded them. This contribution to the Special Issue discusses these treatymaking practices as a practice of misrecognition; not because it misrecognises some natural, essential, or true identity of the indigenous entities, but as a misrecognition of the international order’s own conditions of possibility through practices that simultaneously constitute that order and undermine its constitutive conditions. A rereading of Hegel’s famous master–slave metaphor through the concept of misrecognition sheds light on the reversals and contradictions of the colonial legal enterprise and reveals the aporia of the contemporary international legal order by showing the void at its heart.
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Piekkari, Rebecca, Susanne Tietze, and Kaisa Koskinen. "Metaphorical and Interlingual Translation in Moving Organizational Practices Across Languages." Organization Studies 41, no. 9 (December 19, 2019): 1311–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0170840619885415.
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Organizational scholars refer to translation as a metaphor in order to describe the transformation and movement of organizational practices across institutional contexts. However, they have paid relatively little attention to the challenges of moving organizational practices across language boundaries. In this conceptual paper, we theorize that when organizational practices move across contexts that differ not only in terms of institutions and cultures but also in terms of languages, translation becomes more than a metaphor; it turns into reverbalization of meaning in another language. We argue that the meeting of languages opens up a whole new arena for translator agency to unfold. Interlingual and metaphorical translation are two distinct but interrelated forms of translation that are mutually constitutive. We identify possible constellations between interlingual and metaphorical translation and illustrate agentic translation with published case examples. We also propose that interlingual translation is a key resource in the discursive constitution of multilingual organizations. This paper contributes to the stream of research in organization studies that has made translation a core aspect of its inquiry.
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Girschik, Verena. "Shared Responsibility for Societal Problems: The Role of Internal Activists in Reframing Corporate Responsibility." Business & Society 59, no. 1 (July 26, 2018): 34–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0007650318789867.
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This article addresses intraorganizational pressures for organizational transformation toward more responsible business practices by exploring the role of internal activists. Building on the interactive framing perspective, I ask how internal activists develop a framing of their company’s responsibilities as they attempt to transform its business practices from the inside out. I explore this question in the context of a Danish pharmaceutical company’s responsibilities regarding the rising diabetes problem. Grounded in an inductive, interpretive analysis, I show how internal activists developed a framing of the company’s responsibility over time and eventually instigated new ways of thinking about and doing business in their organization. I theorize the constitutive processes that strengthened frame alignment and allowed the internal activists to shape business practices. My study contributes to the literature on corporate social responsibility (CSR) communication by explaining how intraorganizational processes of meaning making may constitute more responsible business practices and by explicating the distinct role of internal activists as agents of organizational transformation.
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Gregson, Nicky A., Kirsten Simonsen, and Dina Vaiou. "Writing (Across) Europe: On Writing Spaces and Writing Practices." European Urban and Regional Studies 10, no. 1 (January 1, 2003): 5–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/a032521.
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In this paper we explore how existing, loosely geographical, English-language journals constitute Europe within their writing/publishing spaces. Focusing on two sets of journals - British/British-North American and those which are explicitly (pro) European in their orientation/content - we show how some of these journals appear to write contemporary Europe out of their spaces, casting Europe instead through the homogenizing lens of 19th-century colonialism. By contrast, others make more or less space for contemporary Europe but construe this as a transparent space; to be written about and framed by distant, dislocated commentator-viewers, whose power to comment and frame is regulated by their location within specific European geographical communities. Correspondingly, we argue that these journal spaces are both constituted through a centre-margin imaginary and constitutive of this power-geometry. This situation is argued to reflect academic working practices that are largely national or within-culture rather than cross-culture, and to reproduce dominant (Northern/Western) representations of Europe. In the final section of the paper, drawing on some of our own experiences, we consider how cross-cultural writing practices have the potential to disrupt this power geometry.
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Auvinen, Tero. "At the Intersection of Sovereignty and Biopolitics: The Di-Polaric Spatializations of Money." Foucault Studies, no. 9 (September 1, 2010): 5. http://dx.doi.org/10.22439/fs.v0i9.3055.
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The paper explores the incentive structures and the structurally rigid social hierarchies inherent in the polarizing logic of modern credit money and the mutual constitution of money’s sovereign and biopolitical dimensions. It is argued that the monetary system constitutes a major transitory channel for the logic of financial capital to transcend the limitations of sovereign spaces and to transform itself into a biopolitical force. The relationship between the material and the subjective – or the sovereign and the biopolitical – dimensions of money is seen as di-polaric rather than di-chotomic – as a mutually constitutive whole between relational dynamics and the normalizing opportunity structures which govern such interaction. If the sovereign and the biopolitical dimensions of money indeed constitute distinct but inseparable moments of the same totality, there would appear to be more room for strategic combination of heterogeneous analytical practices in emancipatory scholarship than what some of the traditional notions of the epistemological politics of power and sovereignty might suggest.
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Madianou, Mirca. "Technocolonialism: Digital Innovation and Data Practices in the Humanitarian Response to Refugee Crises." Social Media + Society 5, no. 3 (July 2019): 205630511986314. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2056305119863146.
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Digital innovation and data practices are increasingly central to the humanitarian response to recent refugee and migration crises. In this article, I introduce the concept of technocolonialism to capture how the convergence of digital developments with humanitarian structures and market forces reinvigorates and reshapes colonial relationships of dependency. Technocolonialism shifts the attention to the constitutive role that data and digital innovation play in entrenching power asymmetries between refugees and aid agencies and ultimately inequalities in the global context. This occurs through a number of interconnected processes: by extracting value from refugee data and innovation practices for the benefit of various stakeholders; by materializing discrimination associated with colonial legacies; by contributing to the production of social orders that entrench the “coloniality of power”; and by justifying some of these practices under the context of “emergencies.” By reproducing the power asymmetries of humanitarianism, data and innovation practices become constitutive of humanitarian crises themselves.
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Vogler, Stefan. "Constituting the ‘sexually violent predator’: Law, forensic psychology, and the adjudication of risk." Theoretical Criminology 23, no. 4 (February 21, 2018): 509–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1362480618759011.
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Considerable socio-legal scholarship demonstrates law’s constitutive power, and much criminological research has considered the effects of actuarial risk assessment. However, these strands have rarely been brought together to consider how legal risk assessment practices constitute sexual subjects. This article argues that law and forensic psychology co-constitute the category of the ‘sexually violent predator’ (SVP) as a distinct type of person through the use of psychiatric diagnosis and actuarial risk assessment. Contrary to dominant views of actuarialism as de-individualizing, this article asserts that SVP proceedings are centrally concerned with individualized intervention, yet such proceedings continue to produce static risk subjects rather than the dynamic subjects identified in recent research on actuarial practices. It is argued that this stems from entrenched cultural views of sexuality as a fixed essence inherent in individuals. The risk assemblage in SVP proceedings therefore presents a unique theoretical case that does not clearly fit prevailing accounts of actuarialism.
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Svendsen, Øyvind. "‘Practice time!’ Doxic futures in security and defence diplomacy after Brexit." Review of International Studies 46, no. 1 (July 4, 2019): 3–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0260210519000202.
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AbstractTime constitutes social life and time management is central to the everyday conduct of international politics. For some reason, however, the practice turn in International Relations (IR) has produced knowledge about how past practices constitute international politics but not about how the future is also a constitutive feature in and on social life. Introducing a novel perspective on practice and temporality, the article argues that intersubjectively situated representations of the future by practitioners in international politics contribute substantially to our understanding of political processes and the making of international politics. To develop what appears a contradiction in terms – that ‘future-practices’ are driven by tacit know-how and conscious reflection simultaneously – the article develops the concept of doxic futures: representations of the future rooted in practical knowledge and tacit assumptions about the self-evident nature of the social world. The argument is illustrated with a case study of European security and defence diplomacy after the UK voted to leave the EU. Through the envisioning of two concrete doxic futures, a ‘Europe of buying together’ and the UK as a third country in EU defence, diplomats effectively tried to save European security and defence cooperation from the potentially disintegrating effects of Brexit.
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Bredella, Nathalie, and Carolin Höfler. "Processes and practices in computational design." Architectural Research Quarterly 21, no. 1 (March 2017): 5–9. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s135913551700029x.
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Every architectural design emerges from a process. The different tools and media constitutive of these processes in turn foster approaches to architecture, as well as the creation of new categories of knowledge. With the progressive development of computer-based design techniques, the contemplation of the procedural aspects of architecture becomes increasingly significant for the production and reception of architecture.It is from this perspective that this special issue sets out to examine the specific roles that processes and practices play in computer-based design by seeking to illuminate those techno-cultural contexts and historical and intellectual bonds that unite them. Which traditions and strategies, and what historical correlations among architecture, culture, and technology, have motivated and shaped the development of computer-based design processes?
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Abraham, Kavi Joseph, and Yehonatan Abramson. "A pragmatist vocation for International Relations: The (global) public and its problems." European Journal of International Relations 23, no. 1 (July 26, 2016): 26–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1354066115619018.
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The turns to pragmatism and practice theory in recent years are indicative of a fragmented discipline searching for the ends of International Relations theory. While diverse and contested, both bring forth conceptual language — habit, habitus, field, or practice — that promises to reorient the field on different grounds, with different implications for thinking about the vocation of International Relations. This article considers the contributions made possible by pragmatism in light of the turn to practices, outlining a “pragmatic International Relations” that is tasked with a political project: constituting the public in an age of global governance. It does so through a reading of Dewey that foregrounds his political commitments to democracy as a form of publicly inclusive inquiry. Rather than severing the normativity inscribed in Dewey’s social theory, this article demonstrates how his political values were productive of his theoretical practice. As such, we argue that Dewey does not dispense with metaphysics in order to attend to political problems, but, instead, locates metaphysics as constitutive of the political problem itself: democracy in the age of expertise.
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Meskenas, Adas, Viktor Gribniak, Gintaris Kaklauskas, Aleksandr K. Arnautov, and Arvydas Rimkus. "SIMPLIFIED TECHNIQUE FOR CONSTITUTIVE ANALYSIS OF SFRC." JOURNAL OF CIVIL ENGINEERING AND MANAGEMENT 20, no. 3 (June 9, 2014): 446–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.3846/13923730.2014.909882.
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Steel fibre reinforced concrete (SFRC) has become widespread material in areas such as underground shotcrete structures and industrial floors. However, due to the absence of material models of SFRC reliable for numerical analysis, application fields of this material are still limited. Due to interaction of concrete with fibres, a cracked section is able to carry a significant portion of tensile stresses, called the residual stresses. In present practices, residual stresses used for strength, deflection and crack width analysis are quantified by means of standard tests. However, interpretation of these test results is based on approximation using empirically deduced relationships, adequacy of which might be insufficient for an advanced numerical analysis. Based on general principles of material mechanics, this paper proposes a methodology for determination of residual stress-crack opening relationships using experimental data of three-point bending tests. To verify the constitutive analysis results, a numerical modelling is utilised employing a nonlinear finite element analysis program ATENA. Simulated load-crack width relationships and moment-curvature diagrams were compared with the experimental data by validating adequacy of the derived constitutive models.
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Imrie, Rob. "The Interrelationships between Building Regulations and Architects' Practices." Environment and Planning B: Planning and Design 34, no. 5 (October 2007): 925–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.1068/b33024.
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It is commonly assumed that building regulation and control is a technical activity and part of a bureaucratic machine external to the design process. For many architects building regulations are no more than a set of rules to be adhered to, and are usually seen as ephemeral, even incidental, to the creative process of design. However, the main argument of this paper suggests that the building regulations are entwined with, and are constitutive of, architects' practices. Far from being an insignificant part of the design process, as some commentators suggest, I develop the argument that the building regulations influence aspects of creative practice and process in architecture and, as such, ought to be given greater attention by scholars of urban design.
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Mitra, Rahul. "Natural Resource Management in the U.S. Arctic: Sustainable Organizing Through Communicative Practices." Management Communication Quarterly 32, no. 3 (February 2, 2018): 398–430. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0893318918755971.
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This study advances a theoretical framework of sustainable organizing, grounded in the communicative practices of key organizational actors. I situate this study in the enactment of natural resource management (NRM) in the U.S. Arctic, drawing on qualitative fieldwork and in-depth interviews. The theoretical framework hinges on four iterative sensitizing concepts—stakeholder embeddedness in local–global ecologies, constitutive role of d/Discourse, rhetoric–practice tensions, and systemic risk–resilience—that guided data analysis. Findings revealed that participants communicatively constituted NRM in terms of structural challenges and best practices. NRM’s structural challenges were rooted in discursive closure of key perspectives through past events, routinization, and design; othering of important stakeholders; and framing institutional tension as conflict. Nevertheless, participants emphasized key decision-making, relationship-building, and risk-managing clusters that enabled NRM best practices benefiting both human and natural stakeholders. The empirical study thus extends the proposed theoretical framework by demonstrating context-specific practices that enact sustainable organizing.
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Rawls, Anne Warfield. "Introduction to Garfinkel’s ‘Notes on Language Games’: Language events as cultural events in ‘systems of interaction’." European Journal of Social Theory 22, no. 2 (April 16, 2019): 133–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1368431018824698.
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This article discusses ‘Notes on Language Games’, written by Harold Garfinkel in 1960 and never before published, one of three distinct versions of his famous ‘Trust’ argument, i.e., that constitutive criteria define shared events, objects, and meanings. The argument stands in contrast to an approach to cultural anthropology that was becoming popular in 1960 called ‘ethnoscience’. In this previously unknown manuscript, Garfinkel proposes that cultural events and language events are the same, in that both are created through constitutive commitments to interactional systems. The best-known version of the Trust argument (Garfinkel, 1963) emphasizes Schutz, while other versions build on Parsons (Garfinkel 2019). In this third version, the Trust conditions are elaborated in terms of Wittgenstein’s language games. Various strands of Garfinkel’s thinking about culture, language and interaction are interwoven. That Garfinkel was working with Parsons in 1960 to document a contractual basis for social events and their assembly practices in ‘systems of interaction’, a constitutive practice argument with roots in Durkheim’s work, is yet another strand. The article highlights how the Trust argument is the key to everything, not only ethnomethodology, but also Garfinkel’s attempt to develop a general sociology of culture, language and interaction.
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Kornberger, Martin. "The Values of Strategy: Valuation Practices, Rivalry and Strategic Agency." Organization Studies 38, no. 12 (February 1, 2017): 1753–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0170840616685365.
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The concept of value is held dear by strategy theorists and practitioners alike as they share a concern about value creation, value propositions, value add, value chains, shareholder value and a plethora of other value constructs. Yet, despite its centrality, the concept of value has attracted limited attention in strategy scholarship. Most commonly, notions of value as profit or utility, inherited from economic theory, are assumed rather than analyzed. This paper advances the discussion of value in the strategy discourse by conceptualizing value as a correlate of valuation practices. Following this view, value is neither understood as the property of an object nor as a subjective preference; rather, values are constituted through valuation practices including rankings, ratings, awards, reviews and other valuation mechanisms that bestow values upon things in the first place. The paper explores this idea through analyzing valuation practices and their constitutive mechanisms; and it exploits this idea for the conceptualization of rivalry and strategic agency. The learnings are two-fold: because goods are ordered, hierarchized and “appreciated” by consumers, critics, competitors and others through mediating valuation practices, it follows that (1) rivalry takes place at the level of valuation practices as they constitute the spaces in which accounts of worth are constructed and contested; and that (2) strategic agency may be understood in relation to an actor’s capacity to cope with and influence these valuation practices.
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Jun, FU. "Digital Literacy in Chinese Young People’s Engagement on Weibo." Beijing International Review of Education 2, no. 3 (October 7, 2020): 420–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/25902539-00203008.
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Abstract This study identifies the digital literacies generated from Chinese young people’s engagement with Weibo (one of the major Chinese social media platforms). These literacies, manifest as widely accepted community practices on Weibo, extend the prevalent understanding of digital literacy as a set of functional skills or competencies. This extended understanding of digital literacies underlines the importance of their social and cultural dimensions, showing how young people experience them as meaningful and relevant to their digital life. By drawing attention to the constitutive nature of young people’s everyday online practices, and their role in defining digital literacies, this study also highlights the significance of digital literacies for the formation of their identity as a member of digital communities, and for their practice of citizenship in digital spaces.
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Gruber, Helmut. "Genres, media, and recontextualization practices." Internet Pragmatics 2, no. 1 (May 20, 2019): 54–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/ip.00023.gru.
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Abstract The main argument put forward in this paper is that traditional linguistic genre theories neglect the importance of media and their modal affordances in the formation of new genres. It argues that media cannot be viewed as (passive) configurations of technical, semiotic, and cultural features which are chosen by actors/ rhetors in order to serve their communicative needs, but rather as mediators whose modal affordances actively influence communicators’ meaning making choices. In order to support this argument, it will be shown how forms of discourse representation gradually developed from a stylistic device in oral communication to a genre constitutive practice (e.g., in printed academic communication), and eventually became a genre of its own (as the practice of “sharing” content) in social media communication. In the analyses, the focus is on the interplay between modal affordances of the different media in which discourse representation formats are used, their formal properties, and pragmatic factors (like audience expectations in different communicative genres and situations). It is shown how innovative aspects of a medium influence formal features of discourse representation which in turn serve different communicative purposes in different genres.
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Durocher, Myriam. "Biomedicalized food culture." Critical Dietetics 5, no. 1 (May 14, 2020): 23–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.32920/cd.v5i1.1335.
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This article presents my analysis of what I call the contemporary “biomedicalized food culture”. This food culture participates in defining the ways by which “healthy” food is currently understood and practiced, and in creating and orienting particular relationships between bodies and food. In this paper, I present Clarke et al.’s (2010) works on biomedicalization along with the works of researchers in critical food studies (such as Guthman (2014); Landecker (2011); Scrinis (2013)), which have inspired my analysis of the biomedicalized food culture.
Inspired by Clarke et al.’s (2010) ways of presenting the biomedicalization of the social field, I present the contemporary biomedicalized food culture from and through its constitutive processes. Drawing from my fieldwork in Montreal, Canada, I discuss how mediatization, molecularization and commercialization processes participate in the development of the biomedicalized food culture as well as in the creation of knowledge and practices constitutive of “healthy” food, bodies, and the links between them.
I approach this culture from a cultural studies’ perspective, which makes it possible to question the power relationships at stake in its development. I thus criticize how the biomedicalized food culture contributes to the (re)production of exclusions, discriminations, stigmatizations of some knowledge, practices and individuals, as well as to the (re)production of injunctions and normativities linking food, bodies and health, in particular and situated ways at the intersection of its constitutive processes. I finish up by opening up the discussion on how these relationships between food, bodies and health should be thought in their multiplicity and their complexity.
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Haslanger, Sally. "What is a Social Practice?" Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplement 82 (July 2018): 231–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1358246118000085.
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AbstractThis paper provides an account of social practices that reveals how they are constitutive of social agency, enable coordination around things of value, and are a site for social intervention. The social world, on this account, does not begin when psychologically sophisticated individuals interact to share knowledge or make plans. Instead, culture shapes agents to interpret and respond both to each other and the physical world around us. Practices shape us as we shape them. This provides resources for understanding why social practices tend to be stable, but also reveals sites and opportunities for change. (Challenge social meanings! Intervene in the material conditions!)
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Vandenberghe, Frédéric. "Sociology as Practical Philosophy and Moral Science." Theory, Culture & Society 35, no. 3 (May 26, 2017): 77–97. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0263276417709343.
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The philosophical assumptions that organize moral sociology as practical philosophy are the outcome of a secular quest to investigate the principles, norms and values behind the constitution of society. As a protracted response to the whole utilitarian-atomistic-individualistic tradition that systematically deemphasizes the constitutive role that morality plays in the structuration of self and society, the sociological tradition has continued, by its own means, the tradition of moral and practical philosophy in theoretically informed empirical research of social practices. Going back to classic moral philosophy, I want to show in this article how social theory is involved in the quest for ‘the good life with and for the others in just institutions’ (Ricoeur).
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Mutis, Ivan, and Adithya Ramachandran. "The Bimbot: mediating technology for enacting coordination in teamwork collaboration." Journal of Information Technology in Construction 26 (April 26, 2021): 144–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.36680/j.itcon.2021.009.
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Today, BIM technologies in collaborative practice are widespread among construction project stakeholders. However, embracing either distributed or collocated tasks in collaborative practices is a complex, challenging activity. Each team member (actor) views collaborative design problems from a different ‘lens’, framed by the realities of their disciplines, experiences, and levels of engagement on tasks. The effect is a practice prone to conflict generation and misunderstandings among actors. BIM technologies and teamwork should be configured to adapt to one another in practice dynamically. The configuration should enable the effective performance of distributed and collocated work tasks. The presented study investigates these configurations to reveal constitutive aspects of how work should be executed in practice. The study focuses on adapting technology and teamwork to reveal a more effective way of delivering distributed and collocated work tasks. To explore the research question, two components were developed: a theoretical framework and a technology conceptualization. The framework presents fundamental constitutive elements in the coordination process. It illustrates the key aspects that draw the configurations of technology and teamwork. The technology concept is a design to assist in the execution of the tasks for coordination activities. It addresses the constitutive aspects of coordination for BIM processes in practice. The technology concept, named BIMbot, is a cognitive assistant that informs and advises on activities, engages team members together in a task, and facilitates fundamental actions for shared understandings, physical support, and informed advice. This paper contributes to shedding light on the difficulties for team members to reach a shared understanding of knowledge when they use BIM technologies. It presents the first development of the design of technology that provides actionable information to coordinate activities.
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Appleby, Jo. "Temporality and the Transition to Cremation in the Late Third Millennium to Mid Second Millennium bc in Britain." Cambridge Archaeological Journal 23, no. 1 (February 2013): 83–97. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0959774313000061.
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Time and temporality have been at the centre of a number of accounts of burial practices in the Bronze Age of Britain in the last twenty years. Up to now, however, the temporality of practice has been taken as an indication of past understandings of time and/or the ancestors. In this article I wish to argue that the temporality of mortuary practices was not merely reflective of understandings of time, but in fact was constitutive of them, and that through the changing temporality of mortuary practices, people's engagement with monuments themselves was changed. These changing temporalities were driven by the transition from inhumation to cremation as the dominant mode of disposal of the dead. By invoking chaînes opératoires for each mode, I will demonstrate the underlying similarities and differences of the two rites, showing how cremation led to a fundamental change in the temporality of mortuary behaviour, and as such created new understandings of funerary monuments and place.
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Bertram, Georg W. "Was heißt es, Kunst als paradigmatische Praxis der zweiten Natur zu begreifen?" Deutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie 66, no. 3 (June 5, 2018): 362–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/dzph-2018-0027.
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Abstract The paper argues that the concept of second nature has two aspects that are inherently bound up with one another. Firstly, second nature has to be conceived of as a concept that has a critical force. Secondly, art has to be understood as an essential part of what second nature is. The paper explains these two dimensions of the concept by drawing on Hegel’s and Heidegger’s conceptions of second nature as the nature of essentially incomplete beings. Since the incompleteness in question always has to be reproduced, human beings have to develop and constantly engage in practices of self-criticism. As a practice of self-criticism, art is constitutive of second nature understood in this way. Thus, the specificity of art is to be found in its form of self-criticism as articulated through objects, which for their part give orientation to beings that realize their second nature through their practices. In the end, art prompts them to revise and enliven these practices.
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Phillips, Catherine R. "The Computer Social Worker: Regulatory practices, regulated bodies and science." Qualitative Social Work 18, no. 3 (August 2, 2017): 443–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1473325017723700.
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Social work assessments, and in turn clinical judgment and intervention practices, are increasingly framed by standardised tools and technologies that are digitised. These tools and technologies mediate social workers’ relationships with services users, while also privileging, and in turn reiterating, particular identities and particular forms of knowledge. In this article, I am interested in how standardised tools and technologies, like computers, operate to mediate the relationship between social workers and services users. I work with an autoethnographic narrative in order to examine standardised social work practice. Methodologically, autoethnography rests within a reflexive frame of qualitative research, allowing us to excavate our experiences in order to understand how our lives are ordered and knowledge is socially constitutive. In mining this narrative, I am interested in the body, and in particular, the corporeal dimension of standardised practices. I historically locate these practices, and use the work of Michel de Certeau and Michel Foucault to examine how tools and technologies function in relation to the body, even when there is no direct physical, bodily contact. Ultimately I argue that there is a scientific discourse underpinning current clinical practice and I use the framings of Donna Haraway to understand the implications of this for social workers.
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Bertinetto, Alessandro, and Georg W. Bertram. "We Make Up the Rules as We Go Along: Improvisation as an Essential Aspect of Human Practices?" Open Philosophy 3, no. 1 (May 27, 2020): 202–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/opphil-2020-0012.
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AbstractThe article presents the conceptual groundwork for an understanding of the essentially improvisational dimension of human rationality. It aims to clarify how we should think about important concepts pertinent to central aspects of human practices, namely, the concepts of improvisation, normativity, habit, and freedom. In order to understand the sense in which human practices are essentially improvisational, it is first necessary to criticize misconceptions about improvisation as lack of preparation and creatio ex nihilo. Second, it is necessary to solve the theoretical problems that derive from misunderstandings concerning the notions of normativity, habit, and freedom – misunderstandings that revolve around the idea that rationality is a form that is developed out of itself and thus works in a way similar to algorithms. One can only make sense of normativity, habit, and freedom if one understands that they all involve conflictual relationships with the world and with others, which in turn enables one to adequately take into account their constitutive connection to improvisation, properly understood. In outlining these conceptual connections, we want to prepare the foundations for an explanation of rational practices as improvisational practices. The article concludes by stating that human rational life is improvisatory because the conditions of human practice arise out of practice itself.
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Rawls, Anne Warfield. "Durkheim’s theory of modernity: Self-regulating practices as constitutive orders of social and moral facts." Journal of Classical Sociology 12, no. 3-4 (August 2012): 479–512. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1468795x12454476.
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Berg, Marc. "Practices of reading and writing: the constitutive role of the patient record in medical work." Sociology of Health and Illness 18, no. 4 (September 1996): 499–524. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1467-9566.ep10939100.
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Greinert, Cordula, Ariane Martin, and Mirko Nottscheid. "Paratextelemente der Postkarte." editio 34, no. 1 (November 1, 2020): 142–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/editio-2020-0008.
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AbstractThe article examines the main paratextual elements of the postcard. The authors hold that these are not of only secondary importance to understanding this particular medium, but that they constitute it as such. Therefore, paratextual elements must be considered accordingly in an edition. Drawing on examples from the current project Frank Wedekind’s correspondence – digital edition, three aspects are focussed on: (1) the intermedial relations of text(s) and visual paratext(s) on picture postcards, (2) the meaning of specific postal paratexts such as postmark, stamp, or address and (3) the phenomenon of collective communication practices on group postcards. The authors conclude that constitutive paratextual elements of the postcard are better presented as an integral part of the edited text instead of being placed in the critical apparatus.
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Klincewicz, Michał. "Robotic Nudges for Moral Improvement through Stoic Practice." Techné: Research in Philosophy and Technology 23, no. 3 (2019): 425–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.5840/techne2019122109.
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This article offers a theoretical framework that can be used to derive viable engineering strategies for the design and development of robots that can nudge people towards moral improvement. The framework relies on research in developmental psychology and insights from Stoic ethics. Stoicism recommends contemplative practices that over time help one develop dispositions to behave in ways that improve the functioning of mechanisms that are constitutive of moral cognition. Robots can nudge individuals towards these practices and can therefore help develop the dispositions to, for example, extend concern to others, avoid parochialism, etc.
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Machado, Maria Zélia Versiani, Gilcinei Teodoro Carvalho, Carlos Augusto Novais, and Ana Paula da Silva Rodrigues. "LITERACIES AMONG YOUTH FROM CAMPO (RURAL) COMMUNITIES: WHAT IS REVEALED DURING VIDEO PRODUCTION." Trabalhos em Linguística Aplicada 59, no. 1 (April 2020): 151–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/010318135871115912020.
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ABSTRACT This article presents the results of the research study, “Literacies in rural communities: social practices of reading and writing in school and non-school situations”, conducted from 2015 to 2017. This study investigated how forms of sociability and communicative circuits in the daily lives of the rural youth constitute social practices of reading and writing. Initially, the use of the word “literacies” in the plural is justified. The context for this research is the Araçuaí Family Agroecological School in Vale do Jequitinhonha, Minas Gerais, Brazil. Analyses are based in the New Literacy Studies (STREET, 2014) and the methodology assumes a qualitative approach from an ethnographic perspective (HEATH; STREET, 2008) in which students collaborated in the production of videos with themes related to their communities. Video production was adopted as a methodological strategy to achieve literacies involved in the collective actions of the process. The results show that the use/non-use of digital technologies does not stand as a factor of differentiation between rural youth and urban youth, definitively breaking with the idea that rural communities are social spaces that lack literacy practices or that are disconnected from the virtual world, which shows that schools should broaden their concepts of literacy, not only by pluralizing practices, but mainly by incorporating them as a constitutive element of their teaching and learning project.