Engagement
A person can be fully committed to understand a specific text, to play a game, to build a place up to a point that the self more or less vanishes in this passionate attention. Engagement is more and more connected to notions of authenticity. One can be as authentic on a piece of land as on Facebook. Engagement is a qualifying factor for authentity in on- and offline worlds.
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Witnessed Presence
Human beings, in the act of being witness and bearing witness, have been mediating presence for…
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Water Stories
Various teenage girls have written stories about their relation with water. They also write about…
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Actor-Presence Model
It has been argued that profiting from certain forms of employee experiences requires a form of…
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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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Name and named
The study reported in the paper concerns the experiences of employees whose company aims to change…
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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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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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A Cambodian witness
Confrontation is the structure of Rithy Panh’s movie ‘S-21 the Killing Machine of the Khmer Rouge’…
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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…