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- Abrahamsson, Sebastian, 1979-
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Food repair : An analysis of the tensions between preventing waste and assuring safety
- 2019
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Ingår i: Ephemera. - 2052-1499 .- 1473-2866. ; 19:2, s. 283-301
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Research into food waste has shown that around one third of the food that is produced for human consumption ends up going to waste. The reasons for this are many but in reports and campaigns the role of the consumer, their careless behavior and anxieties related to food are often raised as two of the main causes for food going to waste. By way of contrast, this article asks what practices of saving, experimenting with, growing and eating food – what is here conceptualized as ‘food repair’ – may tell us in terms of the specific materialities of foods, and the work involved in repairing it. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork with dumpster divers, a studio for the experimental arts, and urban gardeners, I suggest firstly that the actual work of food repair is mundane, small-scale and often remains largely invisible. Secondly, food repair is caught in the tension between avoiding waste and assuring safety. This tension, and the work of living with it in practice, is analyzed in terms of caring: caring for the food, for sustainable consumption, for the eater. As such, this text articulates the concept of food repair as a conceptual contrast to the notion of careless consumers and throw-away societies in order to map alternative stories and practices. Rather than offering a critique of known food wasting practices, then, this text is intended both to articulate and strengthen marginal food repair practices.
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- Ahlström, Emil, et al.
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Play hard, work harder : Workification of gaming in a Swedish World of Warcraft Classic guild
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Ingår i: Ephemera. - 2052-1499 .- 1473-2866.
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper sets out to problematize and further develop the concept of workification in studies on the intersection of play and work. The literature on workification is scarce and focuses mainly on how game design transforms potentially playful activities in games into work-like tasks. In this study, which utilizes material from interviews and autoethnography, we illustrate the transformation of a World of Warcraft Classic guild, evolving from an informal gathering of friends into a structured organization with clear hierarchies and defined functions. By adopting the theoretical perspective of dominant logic, we show how the governing values and decision premises of the studied organization create a balancing act for management. The differing values of individuals within the organization led to the creation of administrative tools and rules to govern the organization’s members. Our conceptualization of workification emphasizes how aspects traditionally related to work – such as task management and organizational hierarchies – are being employed by guilds to enable new ways of enjoying the gaming experience. Committed players devote time and effort to producing spreadsheets, codes of conducts, and performance indicators, in addition to actually playing the game. While this may detract from the ‘magic’ of the game, we argue that workification can also offer new opportunities for playfulness and enjoyment.
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- Andersson, Thomas, et al.
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Who is colonizing whom? : Intertwined identities in product development projects
- 2009
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Ingår i: Ephemera. - : ephemera. - 2052-1499 .- 1473-2866. ; 9:2, s. 168-181
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Despite the considerable number of studies on workplace identities in the organizational literature, the project management area of research is relatively de-personalized. In seeking to develop this research, this qualitative, longitudinal study of a product development project in the automotive industry focuses on how individuals use the project as a resource for their own identity construction while at the same time the project colonizes their identities. The study reveals that the identity construction processes of the project leaders and of the project are closely intertwined and co-constructed. The project leaders face a paradoxical situation: their identities are colonized, regulated, and controlled by their company (or car, or project), and yet they believe they make their choices voluntarily. However, the core values of projectified society are ‘hidden’ in the identity work that an automobile company consciously uses to develop cars associated with specific emotions and values.
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- Berglund, Karin, 1967-
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Fighting against all odds : Entrepreneurship education as employability training
- 2013
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Ingår i: Ephemera. - 2052-1499 .- 1473-2866. ; 13:4, s. 717-735
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In this paper the efforts of transforming ‘regular’ entrepreneurship to a specific kind of ‘entrepreneurial self’ in education are linked to the materialization of employability. It will be illustrated that schoolchildren, under the guise of entrepreneurship education, are taught how to work on improving their selves, emphasizing positive thinking, the joy of creating and awareness of the value of their own interests and passions. This ethic reminds us that we can always improve ourselves, since the enterprising self can never fully be acquired. The flipside of this ethic is that, by continuously being encouraged to become our best, it may be difficult to be satisfied with who we are. Highlighted in this paper is that, with all the amusement and excitement present in entrepreneurship education, also comes an expectation of the individual to fight against all odds. Recruiting students to this kind of shadow-boxing with their selves should involve critical reflection on its political dimensions, human limits, alternative ideals and the collective efforts that are part of entrepreneurial endeavours.
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- Bohm, Steffen, et al.
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The atmosphere business
- 2012
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Ingår i: Ephemera: Theory and Politics in Organization. - 2052-1499. ; 12:1/2, s. 1-11
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Tidskriftsartikel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)
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- Bramming, Pia, et al.
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Roundtable: Management of self-management
- 2011
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Ingår i: Ephemera: Theory and Politics in Organization. - 2052-1499. ; 11:2, s. 212-224
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- Butler, Nick, et al.
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Beyond measure
- 2020
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Ingår i: Ephemera: Theory and Politics in Organization. - 2052-1499. ; 20:3, s. 1-16
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Tidskriftsartikel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Numbers reveal, but they also hide; they tell us who we are, but also who we ought to become; they show us how happy and healthy we are, but also urge us to adjust ourselves to the norm. Numbers manage us and we, in turn, manage ourselves through numbers. At the same time, the rationale behind these metrics remains inaccessible to us, stored safely away in a locket, kept secret from all but the few who have access to these systems of enumeration and computation. In our special issue, we open up this locket and explore questions around measurement in relation to management, organization, and politics –namely, how do processes of quantification intervene in our lives, sideline other modes of judgement and decision, and lead us astray with a trail of numbers. The title oft he special issue, ‘Beyond measure’, signals an attempt to denaturalize measurement, to peel back the layers of commensuration to see what lies beneath.
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- Butler, Nick, et al.
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Professions at the Margins
- 2013
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Ingår i: Ephemera: Theory and Politics in Organization. - 2052-1499.
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- Butler, Nick, et al.
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The labour of academia
- 2017
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Ingår i: Ephemera. - 2052-1499 .- 1473-2866. ; 17:3, s. 467-480
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- Butler, Nick, et al.
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Work, play and boredom : editorial
- 2011
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Ingår i: Ephemera. - 2052-1499 .- 1473-2866. ; 11:4, s. 329-335
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- Case, Peter, et al.
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Roundtable : health at work
- 2012
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Ingår i: Ephemera. - 2052-1499 .- 1473-2866. ; 11:3, s. 308-318
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- Cassinger, Cecilia
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The potential of vulnerability
- 2010
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Ingår i: Ephemera: Theory and Politics in Organization. - 2052-1499. ; 10:1, s. 82-85
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Recension (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)
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- Cederström, Carl, et al.
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The Masochistic Reflexive Turn
- 2008
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Ingår i: Ephemera: Theory and Politics in Organization. - 2052-1499. ; 8:1
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- Charitsis, Vassilis
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Prosuming (the) self
- 2016
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Ingår i: Ephemera. - Leicester. - 2052-1499 .- 1473-2866. ; 16:3, s. 37-59
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Web 2.0 has placed prosumption at the very centre of economic value creation. Digital prosumption has been usually associated with user-generated content. However, recent studies argue for a need to also treat user generated data as a form of prosumption labour, as it is the appropriation and exploitation of these data that fuels digital capitalism. In this paper I analyze self-tracking as a form of digital prosumption. When people use the increasingly popular self-tracking devices, they produce huge amounts of data about themselves, referred to as self-quantification, which firms draw on to create value. The paper aims to expand on the notion of data production as prosumption labour by focusing on self-quantification. I draw on Dallas Smythe’s concept of the ‘audience commodity’ to analyze the commodification and valorization of life through selfquantification practices. I argue that through the generation of data the quantified-self becomes the ‘prosuming self’ that generates value through her own tracked life, but also the ‘prosumed self’, an active and entrepreneurial subject that is governed to produce the kinds of data that can create value for firms.
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- Chertkovskaya, Ekaterina, et al.
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Giving notice to employability
- 2013
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Ingår i: Ephemera: Theory and Politics in Organization. - 2052-1499. ; 13:4, s. 701-716
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The neoliberal notion of employability has risen to prominence over the past 20 years, having been positioned as the crux of national, organizational and individual prosperity. To be employable, individuals are increasingly called upon to be self-reliant; aligning themselves to the conditions of an ostensibly fast-moving and precarious global economy. This special issue of ephemera calls attention to the way this current preoccupation with employability tethers questions of equality and human development to the instrumental capitalist obsession with growth and renewal. The 13 contributions to this issue ‘give notice’ to employability as a colonizing attribute of human resourcefulness that promotes marginalization, exploitation and stigmatization. By exploring the type of ‘self’ employability demands, and analysing the consequences of its required engagement, we hope employability will be both noticed and acted upon.
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- Chertkovskaya, Ekaterina, et al.
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Hosting emergence with hospitality
- 2017
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Ingår i: Ephemera: Theory and Politics in Organization. - 2052-1499. ; 17:4, s. 733-749
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- Chertkovskaya, Ekaterina, et al.
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The vocabulary of degrowth: A roundtable debate
- 2017
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Ingår i: Ephemera: Theory and Politics in Organization. - 2052-1499. ; 17:1, s. 189-208
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The roundtable took place at the ENTITLE conference in Stockholm, titled Undisciplined environments (20-24 March 2016). This is an edited transcription of the discussion.
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- Chertkovskaya, Ekaterina, et al.
(författare)
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Work and consumption: Entangled
- 2016
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Ingår i: Ephemera: Theory and Politics in Organization. - 2052-1499. ; 16:4
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- Cicmil, Svetlana, et al.
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Project management behind the facade
- 2009
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Ingår i: Ephemera. - : Ephemera. - 2052-1499 .- 1473-2866. ; 9:2, s. 78-92
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- Concha-Ferreira, Ignacio, 1968-
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Brands, welfare and welfare-cool
- 2014
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Ingår i: Ephemera. - 2052-1499 .- 1473-2866. ; 14:1, s. 109-117
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Tidskriftsartikel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- In a neoliberal, market-oriented society where traditional welfare is minimized, looked down upon and seen as obsolete, it is no surprise that political entrepreneurs, market-actors, corporations, ad-gurus and brands are playing energetic roles as the new welfare creators and welfare experts and are generating unexplored linkages between brands and welfare. In order to feed off the world of welfare and still maintain legitimacy and grow in popularity, brands need this to be an utterly cool thing – that’s why brands need welfare-cool.
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Consumption of work and the work of consumption
- 2016
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Ingår i: Ephemera: Theory and Politics in Organization. - 2052-1499. ; 16:3
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Annan publikation (refereegranskat)abstract
- Today, work and consumption are notably blurred. Consumption matters are found to make inroads into the realm of work, while consumption gains traction in the domain of production. This special issue of ephemera gets to the heart of this phenomenon. Covering a range of themes – genetic testing, self-quantification, migration, popular media and modern workplaces – the contributions to this issue call attention to the ethico-politics of productive and consumptive aspects of contemporary life. Specifically, the contributions address practices that, under capitalism, fall prey to self-perpetuating accumulation, as well as reproduction and sedimentation of social divisions, which shape who we are, what we do and how we relate.
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- Costas, Jana, et al.
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Roundtable: Free work
- 2013
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Ingår i: Ephemera: Theory and Politics in Organization. - 2052-1499. ; 13:1, s. 11-31
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- Crevani, Lucia, et al.
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Pull yourselves together, guys! : A gendered critique of project manager’s ethics in a public sector context
- 2009
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Ingår i: Ephemera. - 2052-1499 .- 1473-2866. ; 9:2, s. 113-130
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Project management is omnipresent, but the growth of project management practices and discourses has suffered – and is still suffering – from a lack of ethical reflection. Moreover, most of the existing literature on project management ethics aims at universality and generalised frameworks. We take a critical stance to such ambitions and draw upon a tradition of thought that relates ethics intrinsically to community practices. We therefore present a rich account of an empirical case, that of the Swedish Road Administration (SRA), where the context –the public sector, the construction industry, the project managers relying on external suppliers – is extremely important in order to understand how ethics is constructed. Drawing on critical perspectives on projects and gender, as well as on feminist ethics, we read the empirical material and show how ethics is constructed in complex and sometimes contradictory and surprising ways. We show how being (or seeming to be) in control becomes a central issue, at the same time as the traditional dichotomy of a masculine ethics versus a feminine ‘ethics of caring’ is problematic as such constructs are fluid and intertwined.
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- Crevani, Lucia, et al.
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Pull yourselves together, old men! : A gendered critique of project managers’ professional ethics in a public sector context
- 2009
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Ingår i: Ephemera. - 2052-1499 .- 1473-2866. ; 9:2, s. 113-130
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Project management is omnipresent, but the growth of project management practices and discourses has suffered – and is still suffering – from a lack of ethical reflection. Moreover, most of the existing literature on project management ethics aims at universality and generalised frameworks. We take a critical stance to such ambitions and draw upon a tradition of thought that relates ethics intrinsically to community practices. We therefore present a rich account of an empirical case, that of the Swedish Road Administration (SRA), where the context –the public sector, the construction industry, the project managers relying on external suppliers – is extremely important in order to understand how ethics is constructed. Drawing on critical perspectives on projects and gender, as well as on feminist ethics, we read the empirical material and show how ethics is constructed in complex and sometimes contradictory and surprising ways. We show how being (or seeming to be) in control becomes a central issue, at the same time as the traditional dichotomy of a masculine ethics versus a feminine ‘ethics of caring’ is problematic as such constructs are fluid and intertwined.
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- Delfanti, Alessandro, et al.
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Repurposing the hacker: Three cycles of recuperation in the evolution of hacking and capitalism
- 2018
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Ingår i: Ephemera : Theory and Politics in Organization. - 2052-1499 .- 1473-2866. ; 18:3, s. 457-476
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The spread of hacking to new fields brings with it a renewed necessity to analyse its significance in relation to industrial and institutional innovation. We sketch out a framework drawing on the idea of ‘recuperation’ and use it to situate an emerging body of work on hackers. By adopting the concept of recuperation, we highlight how hacker practices and innovations are adopted, adapted and repurposed by corporate and political actors. In other words, hacking itself is being hacked. We suggest three cycles within which this dynamics unfolds and can be studied: 1) the life cycle of an individual technology or community, 2) the co-evolution of hacker movements and relevant industries or institutions, 3) the position of hacking within the ‘spirit of the times’, or, differently put, the periodic transformations of capitalism.
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- Fredriksson, Martin, 1972-
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Pirate Politics between protest movement and the parliament
- 2016
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Ingår i: Ephemera. - 2052-1499 .- 1473-2866. ; 16:2, s. 99-116
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Since the early days of parliamentary democracy, political movements have tried to cometo terms with the conflict between the struggle for radical political change and the need tobe accepted as a respectable alternative within parliamentary politics. This paper analyzeshow this conflict has played out in the Pirate Party: a political party focusing on issues ofcopyright, surveillance, access to information, and right to privacy in a digital age. Sincethe first Pirate Party was formed in Sweden in 2006, national pirate parties haveemerged across Europe, North America and Australia, and they have occasionally wonrepresentation in different parliaments.This article looks at how the Pirate Party has handled the tensions between radical andreformist fractions, contextualized within contemporary social movement theories. Theconflicts have largely dealt with colliding principles for political organization whereconventional party structures are challenged by new, and assumingly less hierarchic,forms of interaction and decision making inspired by radical, digital protests movements.This study rests on a series of interviews with Pirate Party members in Sweden, the USAand Germany. It analyses the interviews in relation to Ulrich Beck’s and MariaBakardjieva’s theories on subpolitics and subactivism, asking why a movement thatcomes across as the prototype for a decentered, networked, subpolitical movementdecides to organize as a parliamentary political party and what consequences that has hadfor the Pirate Party.
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- Garmann Johnsen, Christian, et al.
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Landscapes of political action
- 2018
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Ingår i: Ephemera. - 2052-1499 .- 1473-2866. ; 18:3, s. 417-426
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- Garsten, Christina, et al.
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Sorting people in and out : The plasticity of the categories of employability, work capacity and disability as technologies of government
- 2013
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Ingår i: Ephemera. - 2052-1499 .- 1473-2866. ; 13:4, s. 825-850
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The ‘employable individual’ is today a powerful normative category, saturated with assumptions about what it takes to be attractive in the labour market. What happens to people who cannot meet those expectations? For some, the way to employability and employment goes through a process of detecting and coding of disability at the Public Employment Service (PES). Based on interviews with staff at a rehabilitation unit in the Swedish Public Employment Service, the article analyses processes of evaluating work capacity for marginally employable people as part of the Employability Rehabilitation Programme. By studying the classification procedures, the article analyses how administrative categories work as ‘technologies of government’ that ‘make legible’ desirable traits in the individual. The analysis shows that employability is mediated, or enabled, by classificatory procedures that spring out of a template for what is considered acceptable and desirable individual characteristics, hence reinforcing standards of normalcy. Moreover, the categories through which the individual moves are plastic and pliable in relation to political predicates and labour market fluctuations. In this process, to be non-employable becomes a disability and conversely, to be disabled can make one employable.
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- Helin, Jenny, et al.
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Until the dust settles : Pasts, presents and futures of critical publishing
- 2021
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Ingår i: Ephemera. - 2052-1499 .- 1473-2866. ; 21:4, s. 89-115
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Tidskriftsartikel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Impatience rules the systems in which we operate. Since the inauguration of ephemera in 2001, we have witnessed increasing haste which continues until this day. There are endless possibilities for us to work smarter and harder, thereby delivering more in less time and writing to comply with sector and university publishing norms. In this situation, writing in academia becomes normalized to publishing in ‘top’ tiered journals, especially those that find themselves on some world ranking list. In contrast, we put patience at the heart of the academic profession. Proposing writing with patience, we envision writing without intent to complete a specific project, writing without clear boundaries, beginnings and endings. Such non-event writing holds potential for meeting the world as a verb, and for enduring a collective capacity to care.
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- Husted, Emil, et al.
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Welcome to the party
- 2021
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Ingår i: Ephemera. - : University of Leicester. - 2052-1499 .- 1473-2866. ; 21:2
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- Ivory, Chris, et al.
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The imagined user in projects : Articulating competing discourses of space and knowledge work
- 2009
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Ingår i: Ephemera. - 2052-1499 .- 1473-2866. ; 9:2, s. 131-148
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper articulates the role of the imagined user in the design choices of a higher education client with respect to a project to provide new workspaces for one of its divisions. The case study centres on the disagreements that occurred between different factions within the client organisation regarding the type of office space that was appropriate for its workforce. The paper examines the ways in which competing images of academic knowledge work and knowledge workers were conjured up in differently imagined users and deployed as persuasive user-stories in the design process. The analysis of the case uses the narratives of key project actors to identify the underlying discourses that were articulated to support particular imaginings of the user. The case shows how the successful deployment of discourses was tied up with the power wielded by particular actors at different times during the project. The paper suggests that the articulation of an imagined user implies that project actualities may be presumed as well as real and that discourse analysis provides a useful mechanism for understanding these imagined actualities.
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- Lehner, Matthias, et al.
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Branding Sustainability: Opportunity and risk behind a brand-based approach to sustainable markets
- 2014
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Ingår i: Ephemera: Theory and Politics in Organization. - 2052-1499. ; 14:1, s. 13-34
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In this article we discuss the role of brands in the creation of sustainable markets. We focus on the increasing importance of ethical branding and how it might help to overcome some institutional shortcomings inherent in current market settings. We also discuss the increasing influence of brand communities and the seeming potential for a ‘democratisation’ of brand value and values. Brands are in this article described as one practical and effective way forward to develop the market for sustainable products further. We illustrate this from examples of food retailing, showing how companies have already started to follow this logic. At the same time this article raises doubts over the long-term effectiveness of a (purely) brand-focused approach to sustainable market exchange. On the one hand we claim that brands have proven receptive to public top-down (i.e. policy makers) and bottom-up (i.e. social movements) pressure. For intensive public scrutiny has resulted in markets developing in line with public interests. Yet, on the other hand, we raise concerns over brands’ increasing dominance. Dominance, that is, over the exchange process of sustainable products and services; also over the societal discourse in which sustainability is continuously made sense of. We conclude with the attempt to provide a more nuanced view on brands. We acknowledge their effectiveness in ‘bringing sustainable markets to life’, but also stress the risk of brands achieving discursive dominance over the (democratically legitimized) public debate. For this undermines societal efforts to ‘green’ markets.
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