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Hvorfor Gladsaxemodellen fejlede - om anvendelse af algoritmer på socialt udsatte børn
Get PDFAnvendelse af algoritmer i velfærdsopgaver er nyt. Potentialet er stort, faldgruberne dybe. ”Projekt dataunderstøttet tidlig opsporing af udsatte børn” i Gladsaxe Kommune havde stor interesse, men det blev som følge af mediestorm, aftagende opbakning fra landspolitikerne og hensyn til borgernes tillid lukket allerede i udviklingsfasen. Artiklen beskriver projektforløbet i Gladsaxe, analyserer udfaldet og identificerer en række opmærksomhedspunkter for en kommunal direktion ved anvendelse af algoritmer i velfærdsopgaver. Artiklen bidrager desuden til litteraturen om brugen af algoritmer med et fokus på direktionens rolle samt med et eksempel på anvendelsen af public value-teori på empiriske algoritmecases
Askesis and Critique: Foucault and Benjamin
Get PDFWhile Foucault referred to Benjamin just once in his entire corpus, scholars have long noticed affinities between the two thinkers, mainly between their conceptions of history: their emphasis on discontinuity, their historiographical practices, and the role of archives in their work. This essay focuses, rather, on their practice of critique and, more specifically, on their conception of the relation of this practice to exercise or askesis. I examine the role of askesis as a self-transformative exercise in Foucault’s late work and how this concept reverberates throughout his idea of critique as the exercise of an ethos demanding arduous work. Against this background, the role of exercise (Übung) in Benjamin’s Origin of the German Traeurspiel, his interest in ascetic kinds of exercise or schooling, and its ties to critique are discerned. This comparison reveals significant similarities in Foucault’s and Benjamin’s conception of philosophy, as well as different emphases in their inheritance of the Kantian critical project: critique as an exercise of an attitude attentive to possibilities for transformation in the present vs. critique as involving an attitude-transforming exercise; critique as a modern ethos that needs to be reactivated vs. critique as propaedeutic, as a preparation for a modern tradition
Efter volden? Hverdagsliv og familieliv blandt børn og mødre på krisecenter
No full textPh.d.-afhandlingen »Efter volden?« undersøger, hvordan børn og deres mødre oplever og praktiserer hverdags- og familieliv på et dansk krisecenter. Gennem en etnografisk tilgang udforsker afhandlingen de intime praksisser, der udspiller sig bag krisecenterets fire vægge. Krisecenterets institutionaliserede og semi-offentlige miljø danner rammen og bliver en strukturerende mekanisme for hverdagen og familielivet her. Med et særligt fokus på praksisser belyser afhandlingen, hvordan barndom og familie ’gøres’ i disse institutionelle rammer. Det sker med afsæt i teorier fra barndomssociologien (se fx James, Jenks, & Prout, 1998; Rasmussen, 2004), familiesociologien (se fx Finch, 2007; Morgan, 1996, 2011) og den levede oplevelse af vold (se fx Das, 2007; Das & Kleinman, 2000)
Foucault’s New Materialism: An Extended Review Essay of Thomas Lemke’s The Government of Things: Thomas Lemke, The Government of Things. New York: NYU Press, 2021. Pp. 312 (ISBN: 9781479808816 hardback)
Get PDFThis article constitutes an extended review essay of Thomas Lemke’s book The Government of Things: Foucault and the new materialisms published by New York University Press in 2021. A shorter version of this article was published as a book review in Social Forces (http://doi.org/10.1093/soac037, 22nd April 2022). This longer extended version is being published here with the permission of Oxford University Press, who publish Social Forces. In performing this review, the article seeks to outline and assess Lemke’s thesis to incorporate Foucault as a part of the new materialist approach to the social and physical sciences. As my own work has located Foucault as a materialist since the 1990s, I relate Lemke’s endeavour to my own and conclude that my approach has distinct advantages that his lacks. At the same time, however, his account presents some novel and insightful dimensions which can profitably be added to mine, strengthening the case for Foucault’s materialism overall
Appropriate Disturbances: Team Development in Sports and Business
Get PDFIn this article, we will present an anthropological research project that explores possible benefits of comparing a professional handball club and a software company. More specifically, we turn our attention to the phenomenon of “disturbances.” In workplace contexts, disturbances are most often experienced as hindering focus and immersion, thus having a negative impact on job performance. However, by exploring everyday practices in the Danish professional handball club Bjerringbro-Silkeborg Handball, it becomes apparent that (former) head coach Peter Bredsdorff Larsen deliberately uses what he calls “appropriate disturbances” to provoke change and give direction to processes of team development. This causes us to ask one of the fundamental questions of our overall research project: what form would such appropriate disturbances take in a software company? In an effort to explore this question, we describe our experiments with the concept of “reflection time” as an appropriate disturbance to team development in the software company Systematic. We argue that such disturbances can create moments and spaces in which the potential for improvement and development emerges through a temporary destabilization of everyday life in the workplace
