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A Persistent Vitality

其他書名	Beyond Formative Contexts
出版	University of Auckland, 2008
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=a1VePwAACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋This study takes a processual, transformative approach to organisational life. The presence of the past and moments of renewal are identified within everyday conversation. Immediate interactions are viewed as simmering with possibilities and eliciting the 'next steps' for how we 'go on' together (Shotter 1998). The dynamics of continuity and change are considered with respect to micro practices where people respond to one another in the Tiving present' (Stacey 2001). Poetic methods and an orientation that is critical and reflexive are used to consider conversations in a high performing organisation. Fleeting interactions - where inevitabilities were dislodged, opening futures that had been inconceivable just moments before - are highlighted. Moments such as these are associated with cracks in established practice and a quality of action that I have called 'a persistent vitality' (Williams 1968). I relate transformative moments to renewal and possibility in organisational life. Unsettling established practices is a key theme in this study. This research is both 'about' unsettling established practice and a specific instance of that activity. It is presented as a written account but has been crafted in the image of a 'sensory thing' (Sontag 1967) such as an art installation. The text is constructed so that theory, method, and practice are experienced as three dimensional and inseparable. Looking into theory one 'sees' issues of method and practice; issues of theory and practice move into view when method is ostensibly the focus, while in turning toward practice, questions of method and theory are evoked.