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Local government chief executives’ everyday hauntings : towards a theory of organizational ghosts
No full textThis paper develops a theory of organizational ghosts, a concept that describes the haunted and burdensome aspects of organizational life and in particular of leadership action. The concept of organizational ghosts is not offered as yet another metaphor, a lens through which to analyse particular organizations. Rather, I offer my discussion of ghosts as a theoretical concept that explains how inheritances of the past haunt the relations and struggles of the present. I tell a ghostly tale of the everyday leadership and learning practices of UK local government chief executives, and provide an exploration of organizational ghosts as a contribution to the growing interest in the action in the shadows, atmospheres, margins and boundaries of organizations. Drawing upon an ethnographic study of UK local councils, and embracing the multiplicity and heterogeneity of organizational ghosts, the paper considers the theoretical, political and ethical stakes involved in taking ghosts seriously. Its contribution is to show how ghosts are insinuated in organizations and to highlight leaders as figures who are both willing agents and uneasy hosts of hauntings, and to point to the mediating role of leaders in handling confrontations between the past, the present and the future.Peer reviewe
Radioactive ghosts
No full text"Radioactive Ghosts hopefully conveys the need to see nuclearism as absolutely central to the debates about the anthropocene or capitalocene. Radioactive contamination is, after all, arguably the most destructive footprint humans have left on the planet. Within this larger framework, my focus on nuclear subjectivities also counters the current neglect of psychopolitics in political as well as ecological debates about nuclearism. Radioactive Ghosts presents steps toward a first comprehensive psychological theory of nuclear subjectivities with the hope to inspire further work in this direction."--"A pioneering examination of nuclear trauma, the continuing and new nuclear peril, and the subjectivities they generate"-
Double Ghosts
No full textDouble Ghosts is a multi-part film project which traverses the Pacific drawing on historical fragments,
traces and ghosts from the coasts of Chile to a mountain cemetery in Taiwan. Exploring the status and potential
of unrealised and fragmented histories, the exhibition draws together new 35mm film works, sound recordings, script fragments, photography and archival material filmed and gathered in Chile, France and Taiwan.
Presented as installation as part of the 2018 Taiwan Biennial ‘Wild Rhizome’, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Art, Taichung, Taiwan, 22 September 2018 – 10 February 2019, curated by Jow-Jiun Gong and Yu-Ling Cho
Ghosts, Landscapes and Social Memory
No full textThis book is a groundbreaking attempt to rethink the landscapes of the social world and historical practice by theorising ‘social haunting’: the ways in which the social forms, figures, phantasms and ghosts of the past become present to us time and time again.
Examining the relationship between historical practices such as archaeology and archival work in order to think about how the social landscape is reinvented with reference to the ghosts of the past, the author explores the literary and historical status and accounts of the ghost, not for what they might tell us about these figures, but for their significance for our, constantly re-invented, re-vivified, re-ghosted social world. With chapters on haunted houses and castles, slave ghosts, the haunting airs of music, the prehistoric origin of spirits, Marxist spectres, Freudian revenants, and the ghosts in the machine, Ghosts, Landscapes and Social Memory adopts multi-disciplinary methods for understanding the past, the dead and social ghosts and the landscapes they appear in.
A sociology of haunting that illustrates how social landscapes have their genesis and perpetuation in haunting and the past, this volume will appeal to sociologists and social theorists with interests in memory, haunting and culture
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Rainbows, Stones & Ghosts: Part-II
No full textInstallation View of an MFA exhibition by artist Sarah DePetris, entitled " Rainbows, Stones & Ghosts (Part II)" in the Cora Stafford Gallery (South), College of Visual Arts & Design, University of North Texas, Denton, Texas, from April 5-8, 2023. Photographed by Stephanie Gerhart.
Center: Heavy / Light (2019-2021), Oil on Linen, 66? x 90?.
Left: Stones & Ghosts (#1), 14 x 11 in., Masking Tape, Oil Paint, and Tape Residue on Page from The Martian Landscape, NASA SP-425, (2019-2022), non-archival.
Right: Stones & Ghosts (#2), 14 x 11 in., Oil Paint, and Tape Residue on Page from The Martian Landscape, NASA SP-425, (2019-2022), non-archival
Double Ghosts
No full text'Double Ghosts' was featured in the group exhibition WHAT REMAINS (11 April – 22 May 2022) together with work by artists Seecum Cheung, Onyeka Igwe, Bahar Noorizadeh, Josèfa Ntjam, Naïmé Perrette, Mamali Shafahi, Oraib Toukan and Geo Wyeth. The exhibition was curated by Mehraneh Atashi and Tabitha Steinberg and presented by Videoclub, 11 April - 22 May 202
The Ghosts Trilogy Too Young for Ghosts, No Going Back, My Father's Father
No full textWritten over a period of ten years from 1985, The Ghosts Trilogy follows the lives of a group of young Latvians who emigrate to North Queensland in 1948. The chronicle of their struggles over 45 years is paralleled by the narrative detailing the unsuccessful journeys made by German explorer Ludwig Leichhardt in Queensland in the years 1845-46. The plays in this trilogy are: Too Young For Ghosts, No Going Back and My Father's Father.Intro -- Title Page -- Table of Contents -- Copyright Page -- Playwright's Biography -- Too Young for Ghosts -- First Production -- Characters -- Setting -- Production Note -- Prologue -- Part One -- Scene One -- Scene Two -- Scene Three -- Scene Four -- Scene Five -- Scene Six -- Scene Seven -- Scene Eight -- Scene Nine -- Part Two -- Scene Ten -- Scene Eleven -- Scene Twelve -- Scene Thirteen -- Scene Fourteen -- Scene Fifteen -- No Going Back -- First Production -- Characters -- Setting -- Production Note -- Part One -- Scene One -- Scene Two -- Scene Three -- Scene Four -- Scene Five -- Scene Six -- Scene Seven -- Scene Eight -- Scene Nine -- Scene Ten -- Scene Eleven -- Part Two -- Scene Twelve -- Scene Thirteen -- Scene Fourteen -- Scene Fifteen -- Scene Sixteen -- Scene Seventeen -- Scene Eighteen -- Scene Nineteen -- Scene Twenty -- Scene Twenty-One -- Scene Twenty-Two -- My Father's Father -- First Production -- Characters -- Setting -- Production Note -- Prologue -- Part One -- Scene One -- Scene Two -- Scene Three -- Scene Four -- Scene Five -- Scene Six -- Scene Seven -- Scene Eight -- Scene Nine -- Scene Ten -- Scene Eleven -- Scene Twelve -- Part Two -- Scene Thirteen -- Scene Fourteen -- Scene Fifteen -- Scene Sixteen -- Scene Seventeen -- Scene Eighteen -- Scene Nineteen -- Scene Twenty -- Scene Twenty-One -- Scene Twenty-Two -- Scene Twenty-Three -- Scene Twenty-Four -- Scene Twenty-Five -- Scene Twenty-Six -- AppendixWritten over a period of ten years from 1985, The Ghosts Trilogy follows the lives of a group of young Latvians who emigrate to North Queensland in 1948. The chronicle of their struggles over 45 years is paralleled by the narrative detailing the unsuccessful journeys made by German explorer Ludwig Leichhardt in Queensland in the years 1845-46. The plays in this trilogy are: Too Young For Ghosts, No Going Back and My Father's Father.Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, YYYY. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries
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Rainbows, Stones & Ghosts: Part-I
No full textInstallation view (digital photo) of exhibition by artist Sarah DePetris, entitled "Stones & Ghosts (Part I)" in the Union Art Gallery, University Union, University of North Texas, from March 27 - April 6, 2023. Photographed by Stephanie Gerhart
The Ghosts of Slavery in Contemporary Theatre from the Francosphere
No full textThis article examines two theatre-makers who, in recent years, have provided counter-visibilities to the official erasure of history, placing centre-stage what philosopher Achille Mbembe defines as one of the defining moments of modernity: slavery. To make present this absence, both Cameroon-born author Léonora Miano's Révélation (2015) and Guadeloupian performance artist Stéphanie Melyon-Reinette's Kepone Dust (2020) employ ghosts, haunting, and spirits. Ghosts reveal how the repression of history and the impunity of criminality cannot prevent the past from being replayed. With reference to Rebecca Schneider's notion of making the past present during the act of live performance, the article examines how this new generation of theatre- and performance-makers replays history to stage a present haunted by trauma. At the same time, this replaying constitutes an affirmative means to enable restitution
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Rainbows, Stones & Ghosts: Part-I
No full textInstallation view (digital photo) of 2023 MFA exhibition by artist Sarah DePetris, entitled "Stones & Ghosts (Part I)" in the Union Art Gallery, University Union, University of North Texas, from March 27 - April 6, 2023. Photograph by Stephanie Gerhart
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