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The Future Airport – Experiments and Innovative Technologies
Get PDFZooming in on the micro-processes involved in developing and user testing new technologies for airports, this article works with the notion of experiments as a way to understand iterative practices and future (re)orientations. In doing so, I aim to think through experiences and experiments with applied anthropology and corporate ethnography within a dialogic framework of 1) current airport industry efforts of re-visioning stakeholder collaboration and airport re-branding and 2) the attempts of a Danish start-up company to create market disruption through innovative technology development. Although the experiments take place at different scales and are performed in different ways, I contend that they must be considered within a common frame in order to tease out their interconnectedness, particularly with regards to experimental confines and motivations. Based on some relatively raw case material, this article unfolds the different layers of experiments and the underlying assumptions that they make apparent
Unfair Trade: Protectionism, Protests and the Pursuit of Free Trade in New Zealand
Get PDFIs free trade dead? In January 2017, President Trump withdrew the United States from the controversial Trans-Pacific Partnership free trade agreement (TPP). This paper examines some of the anthropological implications of what emerged out of the “death” of the TPP. It analyses what this reveals about the changing contours of the neoliberal state, business-government relations and the subjectivity of corporate leaders. More broadly, it seeks to explain the tenacity of free trade and what is at stake in pursuing free trade agreements such as the TPP. Drawing on fieldwork among state and business elites in New Zealand, the paper suggests that rather than rethink its policy direction, the state deployed discursive strategies and elicited the help of business to reposition free trade as the solution, not the cause that eventually “killed” the TPP. Thus, rather than undermine neoliberalism, the demise of the TPP opened the possibility of its advancement
Har en leder altid ansvaret, og aldrig skylden? – Om lederes læring ved undervisning i ansvar i ledelse
Get PDFEn reform, der skulle føre til bedre uddannelse for borgerne, faldt til jorden, og medarbejderne fik stress. En beboer på en døgninstitution gik ud for at stemme, og kom aldrig hjem igen. Begge disse to eksempler handler om ledelsesbeslutninger, hvor noget går galt. Og sådan er det med mange eksempler i ledelse: Tingene går ikke altid som forventet, og så leder omgivelserne efter, hvem der har ansvaret. Hvem har skylden. Denne artikel beskriver en undersøgelse af, hvordan det personlige lederskab er både en fordel og en hæmsko for lederskabet i forhold til ansvar og skyld. Det er en fordel at tale om et personligt lederskab, fordi det sætter lederens valg på spidsen, når det drejer sig om ansvar. Det er en hæmsko, at tale om det personlige lederskab, når det drejer sig om skyld, netop fordi det sætter lederens person på spil på en tvetydig måde. Er lederen ”skyldig”, når ting går galt, og hvordan har denne bagside af ansvar (”skyld”) noget med lederens person at gøre? Disse spørgsmål diskuteres igennem en undersøgelse af, om og hvordan undervisning i ledelse, ansvar og skyld påvirker lederes opfattelse af disse emner. Konklusionen er, at det personlige lederskab netop skal forholde sig til spørgsmål om det etiske i det politiske for at holde fokus på opgaven, og hvordan ledere kan forholde sig til begivenheder i et politisk rum, også når det går galt
What’s In a Norm? Foucault’s Conceptualisation and Genealogy of the Norm
Get PDFIn this article I survey Foucault’s remarks on norms and normalisation from across his oeuvre, with a view to reconstructing his genealogy of norms, leaning at points – following Foucault himself – on Georges Canguilhem’s seminal work on the topic. I also survey in tandem the existing secondary scholarship on this question, maintaining – pace other schol-ars – that Foucault’s position has not been adequately explicated despite sophisticated attempts. I argue that Foucault’s idiosyncratic conception of the norm, overlooked or mis-understood by other readers, is consistently of an ideal model guiding human action in any particular sphere. This concept is a relatively modern one that may be contrasted to the older form of restricting human behaviour according to binary discriminations that may be called ‘laws’ or ‘rules’. Foucault traces the form of the norm specifically to medieval pro-cesses for dealing with the plague, which later become highly generalised and diffused to produce a normalising society. I conclude with a more speculative discussion of how this society of the norm continues to utilise binarising rules, arguing that norms are typically used in order to ground binarising condemnations of abnormal cases, but that the nebu-lousness of norms ultimately allows any particular case to be condemned by such stand-ards