Environmental management as situated practice

Pointing as Situated Practice

Self-disclosure as a situated interactional practice.

Self-disclosure has long been a site of research in clinical and social psychology, where it suffers the fate of many interactional phenomena. It is operationalized (typically, into a set of bald statements of varying intimacy), and measured as a dependent variable (subject to the operation of factors like the age or gender of the discloser, the degree of acquaintance with the disclosed-to reci...

Health governance in India: Citizenship as situated practice

Despite the impressive growth of the Indian economy over the past decades, the country struggles to deal with multiple and overlapping forms of inequality. One of the Indian government's main policy responses to this situation has been an increasing engagement with the 'rights regime', witnessed by the formulation of a plethora of rights-based laws as policy instruments. Important among these a...

Environmental Management as Political Sustainability

Grounded in critical theory and the Gramscian concept of hegemony, this article argues that environmental management (EM) can be understood as an accommodation to growing public awareness of environmental problems that potentially threatens dominant hegemonic coalitions. On the material level, EM is a set ofpractices that ameliorates the more egregious environmental consequences of industrial p...

Learning in IT projects- The Importance of Situated Practice as well as Formal Project Methodologies

INTRODUCTION Enterprise Systems (ES) are being widely adopted by all types of organizations and there is now considerable research on the impact of such systems The promoted strategic advantage of an ES is that it can integrate business functions into a single system with a shared database (Lee and Lee, 2000), allowing organizations to develop a homogenous enterprise-wide information systems in...