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1 - Embodied Inter-Practices in Resonance as New Forms of Working in Organisations

from Part I - Experiencing at Work

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 December 2020

By
Wendelin Küpers
Edited by
Jeremy Aroles ,
François-Xavier de Vaujany  and
Karen Dale
Jeremy Aroles
Affiliation:
Durham University
François-Xavier de Vaujany
Affiliation:
Université Paris-Dauphine
Karen Dale
Affiliation:
Lancaster University
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Summary

This chapter presents how a phenomenological approach can help developing a more integral and relational understanding of embodied and resonant practices of new work in organisations. Building on seeing work as situationally and temporally placed, the concept of ‘inter-practice’ will be discussed. In such relational practices material, economic and socio-cultural, political dimensions come together. Based on a Merleau-Pontyian inspired phenomenology of embodied practicing, the processual concept of “inter-practice” is presented. Afterword the relational mode of ‘resonance’ as developed by Rosa will be presented and critically discussed and by concluding some implications and perspectives offered.

Keywords

ResonanceEmbodimentinter-practicesrelationalityphenomenology
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Experiencing the New World of Work , pp. 13 - 38
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2021

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