Emotional space
Sensation, emotions and feelings are crucial indicators for well-being and survival. When touching a hot stove, the sensation of heat will trigger retreat. Emotions of fear will trigger escape. Also more complex feelings like love, compassion, hate or alienation, inspire human behaviour. Sensations, emotions and feelings deeply influence the sense of place. When being in conflict even a large palace can be experienced as suffocating. When in love, a small bed can be paradise. Phsyical sensations inform about the nature and construction of environments. Emotions and feelings reflect the atmoshere that happen in an environment, touching the heart of human beings involved. As result a sense of place is constructed.
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Living Together
Information- and communication technology offers new possibilities to connect. The opportunity to…
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Acts of Parresia
The Witnessed Reflection methodology focuses on shared reflection by orchestrating situations in…
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Trauma and Witnessing
Stephanie Bezanquen, a French philosopher focusing on cultural representations of genocide and mass…
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Notion of ‘presence’
Developments in the four companies appear to show that at least some employees (non-managers…
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Mediations
The whole face … runs forward, the glance no longer stops anywhere, the mouth never utters a word…
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The healing witness
A human face is … spread out … beneath the glance of other human faces, and it takes gladly to…
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Speaking subjects
In the beginning was suffering. —Julia Kristeva (1993), Proust and the Sense of Time
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Traumatic memory
One need not be a chamber to be haunted. One need not be a house. Far safer, through an abbey…
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The recognition of difference
There is one field, however, in which the contribution of the two projects—the actual witnessing…
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Recognition beyond recognition
Globalisation transformed Western conceptions of witnessing and bearing witness to gross violations…
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Who, then, is the actual witness?
Western authors walk a thin line. De facto, collaborative undertakings such as ‘Breaking the…
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From oppression to repression: creating hybrid witnessing
Could ‘silence’, as mentioned in the two projects, be rather a reference to the concept of ‘culture…
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Old and new testimonies
It is the first time that I appear before a tribunal. I am overwhelmed in turn by painful souvenirs…
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Witnessing is not a static phenomenon
Witnessing is a shifting category determined by what kind of events are witnessed. This is what the…
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Fuzziness over roles and personal life
Managers start to identify with their (harsh) strategies, and blur the boundary between the…
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Reinforcing change
The third stage refers to the development of new strategies: managers starting to emphasise higher