Objectification and Prototype

Nissen, Morten

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“…As such, it recognizes collectives by cocreating prototypes that articulate their potentials for taking us beyond what we thought we knew about organizations. This implies an expanded version of the concept of prototype itself, more akin to the industrial connotations of the term (Jensen 1987;Nissen, 2009). Such prototypes are, and in a certain sense remain, not-yet-types; their historical singularity, and the hopes of relevance without which they could not make coherent sense, are visible.…”

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The constitution and the singular identity of the collective: who, ‘we’?

Nissen

2018

Subjectivity

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Faced with problems of organizational belonging, it is necessary and relevant to approach singular collective identity: The 'who, we?' question as indexical. For this, approaches from social theory outside of the 'organization' field are employed in the analysis of three cases suggested as prototypical. First, the Narcotics Anonymous is seen to mystify its essential workings with a religious metaphor added to its appearance as a standardized civil society association. Second, a grassroots based collective of social youth work is viewed as struggling for recognition through a performative branding hidden behind a radically situated selfconception. Finally, a web-portal is modeled as co-authoring counselling with art and research and as reflecting itself as at once concrete and universal. This casts a new light on the issue of organizational belonging, which could not be sufficiently grasped in the dominant functionalist approaches, nor in the systemic, institutionalist, or post-structuralist theories that oppose them.

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The constitution and the singular identity of the collective: who, ‘we’?

Nissen

2018

Subjectivity

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“…Methodologically the project drew on ethnography (Emerson, Fretz, & Shaw, 2011;Spradley & McCurdy, 1988), institutional ethnography (Smith, 2005), praxiography (Mol, 2002), and practice research (Nissen, 2009) See also uturn.kk.dk, Helsingung.nu, and substance.au.dk 3. http://www.emcdda.europa.eu/ 4. Drugs, substances, intoxicants; the Danish word is "rus-midler," literally: "means for getting high."…”

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Enacting (post)psychological standards in social work: From regimes of visibility to user-driven standards and affective subjectification

Bank

2016

Theory & Psychology

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This article contributes to the general theme of standards and subjectivity by developing a governmental strategy for analyzing how different traditions in psychology are used to produce different standards for subjectification and different ontologies in social work practices. The empirical material is taken from a drug treatment center for young people, where professionals have a critical, reflexive awareness about how standards derived from 20th-century psychology subjectify and organize practices. The article analyzes how professionals in these practices draw on postmodern and critical traditions in psychology-in particular narrative, systemic, and solution-focused therapy-in order to develop alternative "post-psychological," "user-driven," and "affective" standards. These standards expand the field of intervention by modulating on users', relatives,' and professionals' gazes and affective ways of relating. The article articulates an affirmative critique of how post-psy standards can be used reflexively by professionals in social work practices to empower users and enact a "post-psychological" ontology of becoming.This article contributes to the general theme on standards and subjectivity by analyzing how different traditions in psychology are used to produce different standards for subjectification and enact different ontologies in social work and drug treatment practices (Mol, 2002). Drug treatment, deviance, and social work are classical areas for studying a culturally mediated production of subjectivity (Donzelot, 1979;Foucault, 1977;

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“…The theoretical framework of this article is concerned with developing perspectives on structural and societal relations from the standpoint of the subject, without reducing actions to the individuals' free will. It is inspired mainly by critical psychology, with roots in cultural, historical, activity theory (CHAT) (Dreier, 1997;Holzkamp, 2013;Nissen, 2009) and social practice theory based on critical ethnography (Lave, 2011(Lave, , 2012. In these approaches, both children and adults are conceptualized as participants, whose actions both determine and are determined by the societal and institutional structures in which they are situated.…”

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'May I please tell you a little anecdote?' Inter-professional decision-making about inclusion in the borderland between general and special schooling

Larsen¹

2016

Int J School Disaffect

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This article addresses inter-professional work and decision-making around inclusion in school, using an approach inspired by social practice theory. Based on a case analysis, the article presents analytical examples of the ways in which knowledge from children's everyday life tends to be considered anecdotal and disregarded in the decision-making processes. This leads to an institutional blindness to life aspects important to children, such as their peer relationships, and the ways in which interventions sometimes further complicate children's life situations, hence leading to mutual processes of powerlessness among children, parents, and professionals.

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Objectification and Prototype

Cited by 21 publications

References 15 publications

The constitution and the singular identity of the collective: who, ‘we’?

The constitution and the singular identity of the collective: who, ‘we’?

Enacting (post)psychological standards in social work: From regimes of visibility to user-driven standards and affective subjectification

'May I please tell you a little anecdote?' Inter-professional decision-making about inclusion in the borderland between general and special schooling

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