Relationality

My Feminist Perspective of Authority – Part 1 by Elise M. Edwards

by Feminism and Religion

Originally posted on the Feminism and Religion project

I make a distinction between power and authority.  Authority is a personal characteristic based on a relationship... more I make a distinction between power and authority.  Authority is a personal characteristic based on a relationship of trust between me and a text, a person, or their work.  Power, on the other hand, is operative with or without trust.

This past weekend, I had the honor of participating in a workshop on Living Texts: Celebrating Feminist Perspective and Theo/alogy, Authority, and the Sacred in the Academy.  The workshop was organized for the Women’s Caucus of WECSOR, a regional association of national organizations who study religion.  I was delighted to connect with new friends, mentors and sisters interested in feminism and religion,

On Being in the Moment By Ivy Helman

by Feminism and Religion

Originally published on the Feminism and Religion project

Time.  We mark years, months, days, hours, minutes and seconds. We mark seasons.  We mark life events. ... more Time.  We mark years, months, days, hours, minutes and seconds. We mark seasons.  We mark life events.  We live our lives in time: both circular and linear.  Time began before we did and time will continue after we cannot experience it any further.  Some say we repeat time with rebirth.  Others suggest that we only have one lifetime of which we should make the most.  Still others suggest there is existence outside of time with concepts like infinity and eternal life. 

A FEMINIST TAOIST VOICE PART 1: MY DIALOGUE WITH ELISA FON, ACUPUNCTURIST, TAOIST, FEMINIST AND FRIEND by Sara Frykenberg

by Feminism and Religion

Originally published on the Feminism and Religion project

“So it all kind of depends… even in men compared to men, and women compared to women, you would have to have a... more “So it all kind of depends… even in men compared to men, and women compared to women, you would have to have a counterpart to judge something as yin or yang—you are never statically just yin or just yang…”

Elisa Fon is a student of acupuncture, graduating this semester from Yo San University in Santa Monica, CA.  She also studies reiki, energy healing, meditation and yoga.  Elisa and I have known each other for most of our lives as friends, as one another’s support and as chosen family.  Over the last few years, however, we have more consciously fostered an intentional aspect of our intimacy: a challenge to each other to live more authentically, to walk counter-abusively and to live towards physical, spiritual and emotional empowerment.  One privilege of this relationship has been the opportunity to create a language together in order to speak across our differences and share our respective passions: feminist theo/alogies (mine) and Chinese medicine/ healing arts (Elisa’s).

On Cooking and Eating by Ivy Helman

by Feminism and Religion

Originally published on the Feminism and Religion project

In patriarchal heterosexist societies women do most if not all of the cooking for their families.  Women are also... more In patriarchal heterosexist societies women do most if not all of the cooking for their families.  Women are also usually assigned the tasks of cleaning, raising children, tending the family garden, gathering water and anything else that is considered part and parcel of caring for the family.  These feminine tasks are often devalued compared to the activities men spend their time doing.  I wholeheartedly support the reevaluation of the significance of these tasks and the movement toward shared responsibility for family life among heterosexual couples, however that is not what I want to discuss today.

Technology as In-Between

by Stephen Read

in press: Foundations of Science

This commentary on Søren Riis’s paper “Dwelling in-between walls” starts from a position of solidarity with its... more This commentary on Søren Riis’s paper “Dwelling in-between walls” starts from a position of solidarity with its attempt to build a postphenomenological perspective on architecture and the built environment. It proposes however that a clearer view of a technological structure of experience may be obtained by finding technological-perceptual wholes that incorporate perceiver and perceived as well as the mediating apparatus. Parts and wholes may be formed as nested human-technological interiorities that have structured relations with what is outside—so that the outside constitutes an interiority in its turn which contextualises and situates the first. This nested structure raises questions about the way architects and urbanists see the built environment and understand inhabitation. It is hoped that this effort continues with conceptual and empirical work to research ways to make the human places of our built environment.

Infrastructure as world-building

by Stephen Read

in: K. Stoll & S. Lloyd (eds.), Infrastructure as Architecture (Berlin: Jovis) pp. 124-135

Technicity and publicness

by Stephen Read

in Footprint 3. Special issue: P.A. Healy & B. O’Byrne (eds.), Phenomenology in Architecture and Urbanism. pp. 7-22

Heidegger’s space, with its emphasis on the disclosure of entities in settings of mutually referring entities, and the... more Heidegger’s space, with its emphasis on the disclosure of entities in settings of mutually referring entities, and the integration of settings and action, requires us to think carefully about issues like the identities and being of people and things and their relations with each other in a realm of plurality. All entities are captured in webs of co-reference which make their relations between themselves and to ourselves a very public matter. These webs themselves are at the same time the very channels by which we know and access all things, and relations of power become built into them which affect the ways we know things and the possibilities we see for acting. This paper explores and reviews issues of technicity, intersubjectivity, and plurality in relation to Heidegger’s thinking, in order to begin the process of outlining an urban space of the settings ‘between men’ for coherence and action, and to define a direction for further research on urban space and place.

Questioning Quotas: Applying a Relational Framework for Diversity Management Practices in the United Arab Emirates

by Fiona Lettice

Forstenlechner I, Lettice F and Ozbilgin O. Accepted for publication in Human Resource Management Journal

The use of quota systems to improve demographic diversity in organisations is receiving mixed responses from... more The use of quota systems to improve demographic diversity in organisations is receiving mixed responses from commentators. This paper demonstrates that the normative success and failure of a quota system is contingent upon the multilevel and relational dynamics of the diversity management intervention which uses the tool of quotas. Focusing on a quota system, which seeks to promote localisation of the workforce in the United Arab Emirates, this paper presents a longitudinal case study. We analyse the multilevel dynamics of the implementation of the quota system to show how the interdependence of these levels influenced the outcome of the quota programme. The study also accounts for the complexity of normative assessment of the quota based diversity intervention, by illustrating how a diverse set of vested interests; a multiplicity of discourses; and the interplay of schemas of change, support and resistance between managers and employees come into play.

Beyond Materiality:Sintaxis and relationality of rock art and some of the things we call nature

by andres troncoso

Journal of Iberian Archaeology 9/10: 231-244. 2007

Careers of skilled migrants: towards a theoretical and methodological expansion

by Mustafa Ozbilgin

Akram Al Ariss, Iris Koall, Mustafa Özbilgin, Vesa Suutari, (2012) "Careers of skilled migrants: towards a theoretical and methodological expansion", Journal of Management Development, Vol. 31 Iss: 2, pp.92 - 101

Purpose – The careers of skilled migrant workers is an under-theorised field of research. This paper proposes a... more Purpose – The careers of skilled migrant workers is an under-theorised field of research. This paper proposes a theoretical and methodological expansion of studies of careers of skilled migrants.

Design/methodology/approach – The paper offers a critical review of the literature on careers of skilled migrants from a multilevel approach including individual, organizational, and contextual levels.

Findings – The review leads to two key theoretical and methodological expansions: first, it demonstrates that migrant careers need to be understood as a relational construct that is at the interplay of individual and institutions and as a multi-layer and multi-faceted phenomenon. This approach requires the authors to explore careers in temporal and spatial contexts. The second expansion made requires the adoption of relational methodologies, as well as more reflexive methods which encourages researchers to recognize a wider range of vested interests when framing their research questions and designing their studies.

Originality/value – This paper has two key values: first, it questions the central assumptions in the management and organizational literature regarding the topic of international mobility; second, it offers a theoretical and a methodological model for future research on this topic.

Future ethics: risk, care and non-reciprocal responsibility

by Christopher Groves

The Political Imaginary of Care: Generic versus Singular Futures

by Christopher Groves

O outro e a relação - O contributo das fenomenologias da intersubjectividade

by André Barata Nascimento

Neste artigo, aborda-se o problema da intersubjectividade, não tanto por um motivo teórico, mas por se entender ser o... more Neste artigo, aborda-se o problema da intersubjectividade, não tanto por um motivo teórico, mas por se entender ser o problema que estrutura, consoante as respostas que lhe proporcionemos, as diferentes maneiras práticas como se encara fenomenologicamente a relação com o outro.

Holding the tension: Relational perspectives in counselling psychology practice

by Martin Milton

Holding the tension: Relational perspectives in counselling psychology practice. Psychology Aotearoa, Nov 2011

Online Gaming and Embodied Subjectivities: Methods to reach women's social story of gaming.

by Louise Madden

published in Human IT, 10 (1) 2009, 1-25

This paper introduces a set of methods that have been used to investigate the richness of the social world around... more This paper introduces a set of methods that have been used to investigate the richness of the social world around women's relation to online gaming. Theoretically it uses critical psychological notions of subjectivities and relationalities to argue for an approach to gaming as an embodied social practice, which emerges from a complex of relations which operate together to produce women as (non) gaming subjects. Methods are developed to investigate this view of gaming, and a flavour of findings are presented within three themes,  the place of guilt, pain and other emotionality in the experience gaming; the role of significant others and links between on and offline relationships, and the significance of break-down and interruption in how games are experienced, in terms of crashing machines, inadequate internet connections and availability of games and game-time.

Agency in Management of Change: relationality, situatedness and foresight

by Ahu Tatli

Özbilgin, M. and Tatli, A. (2009) Agency in Management of Change: relationality, situatedness and foresight. Costanzo, L.A. and MacKay, R.B. (eds.) The Handbook of Research in Strategy and Foresight. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar.

There is an overwhelming preoccupation in the management literature with predicting the future and capitalizing on the... more There is an overwhelming preoccupation in the management literature with predicting the future and capitalizing on the opportunities that such a vision may offer. This is due to a recognition of the primacy of foresight in economic development (Harper and Georghiou, 2005) Decades of unprecedented growth of the literatures on foresight (Costanzo, 2004; Tsoukas and Shepherd, 2004), forecasting (Chuls, 2003) and intuition (Simon, 1987; Agor, 1986) in management is indicative of this preoccupation. However, we contend that this very literature is littered with conceptions of foresight which do not attend to interplay of foresight and change agency. Indeed, foresight is often considered as an organizational and strategic issue, rather than a phenomenon which essentially resides at the level of the individual, as an essential part of individual agency. We focus on foresight as an aspect of change agency in the management of change literature and explore: (i) what deems framing of change agency weak in the management of change literature and (ii) whether it is possible to address inadequacies of the change agency literature through reframing of foresight. Finally, we call for a framework which captures the multidimensional nature of change agency, and which refers to change agency in contextual, relational and temporal terms.

Towards an integrated relational theory of diversity management

by Ahu Tatli

Tatli, A. (2010). Towards an integrated relational theory of diversity management. Paper presented at the Academy of Management Annual Meeting in Montreal, Canada, 3-10 August 2010.

In this paper I introduce a theoretical framework for expanding the diversity management research and opening up new... more In this paper I introduce a theoretical framework for expanding the diversity management research and opening up new conceptual and empirical directions. The framework is relational and multi-leveled and embeds both agentic and structural mechanisms that exert influence on diversity management processes and outcomes. It is build on four key Bourdieuan concepts: field, habitus, different forms of capitals and strategies.

Relational methods in organization studies: a review of the field

by Mustafa Ozbilgin

Özbilgin, M. (2005) Relational Methods in Organization Studies, pp.244-264, in Kyriakidou, O. and Özbilgin, M. (eds.) Relational Perspectives in Organization Studies, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publisher.

Organizational studies host a diverse range of disciplinary influences and in any discipline of science, research is... more Organizational studies host a diverse range of disciplinary influences and in any discipline of science, research is underpinned by assumptions regarding the nature of reality (ontology) and of scientific practice (epistemology and methodology). In all areas of social science, and particularly in management and organization studies, the general tendency is towards leaving those assumptions unattended in research publications. However it is the ontological, epistemological and methodological assumptions, whether
stated explicitly or remain implicit, that shape the actual process of research and analysis (Özbilgin & Tatlı, 2005). Social reality, despite its layered, complex and interwoven fabric, and its irreducibly intersubjective meanings, relational properties and interdependent patterns and processes, is often treated in organization and management studies in a way which reduces its complexities to a set of definitions, patterns and linkages that are often acontextual, ahistorical or of homologous morphologies. This chapter seeks to review relational methods which, I argue, reflect social reality in a way that is true to its situated, interdependent, intersubjective
and layered nature and form.

Semiotic Realism and the Relational Constitution of Signs and Experience

by Paul Wesley Scott

Presented at SSA annual conference 2011, special interest group for experimental/ empirical semiotic; web format for academia.edu made errors in laying out models/diagrams in paper

Basic, key concepts of semiotic are surveyed en route to establishing signs, units of signification, as always dealing... more Basic, key concepts of semiotic are surveyed en route to establishing signs, units of signification, as always dealing in relations. These relations are triangular and mediate. Signs span and mediate between the internality and externality of things; Thing being defined as a composite of subjectivity and objectivity. Because signs are relational and mediate, identicality is postulated as the limit of the sign. Identicality is aligned with things-in-themselves, which are assigned to meta-reality, to associate semiotic and metaphysic. Mind, thought, world, and reality are conceptualized in such a way as to link signs with experience. Experience is explained as being founded in relations and practices between things. These relations and practices are formulated in significations and from these signification relations experience is founded. Holding experience as being formative of and fundamental to reality, it is concluded that reality is best described as being constituted in signs and ultimately bound by significations and relations between things.

Specious Intrinsicalism

by Matt Barker