Environmental Interaction
When human beings work with material, shape material, the material shapes them at the same time. The potter centres the clay and the clay centrs the potter. While operating technology, technology affcets human beings as well. The mobile phone for example changed human decision behaviour. Interacting with material, including interaction with technology, shapes human beings and influences their spatiotemporal trajectories up to the point that others recognize them. In communities of practice the recognizing of spatiotemporal trajectries is a requirement for developing shared concepts out of which language emerges.
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Name and named
The study reported in the paper concerns the experiences of employees whose company aims to change…
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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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Knowledge sharing
So far, nothing suggests that human presence is requisite to knowledge sharing, but Davenport and…
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Spatial relocation
In this day and age, it can perhaps be argued that architecture, through the integration of new…
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‘What a thrill it is to be here!’
‘What a thrill it is to be here!’ Margaret Atwood exclaimed as she addressed the audience of the…
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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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‘Moving above the stream rather than losing oneself in it’: how participatory is ‘participatory’?
‘Techniques will never make a testimony, testimony is pure of any techniques… and yet it already…
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Hybrid witnessing
‘Breaking the silence’ and ‘We want (u) to know’ elaborate upon such ‘hybrid witnessing’.
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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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The projects
It is with such view in mind that my paper considers the projects ‘We want (u) to know’ and…
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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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Transferring initiative
The fifth stage sees employees starting to communicate with fellow victims of the managerial…
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Fuzziness over roles and personal life
Managers start to identify with their (harsh) strategies, and blur the boundary between the…