Mihaela Kelemen
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 98716 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Mihaela Kelemen |
| NOMBRES | Mihaela |
| APELLIDO | Kelemen |
| FIRMA | KELEMEN M |
| AFILIACIONES | Keele University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7362-4082 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 18 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 72 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 18 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2000 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
The Role of Boundary Spanning in Building Trust
This paper investigates the impact of boundary spanning activities on building trust as a means of tackling health inequalities in hardly reached communities. Lack of trust has been identified as a barrier to engagement with healthcare services, resulting in poorer health outcomes. Engaging with hardly reached communities is challenging due to the social and symbolic boundaries prevalent in community healthcare settings. Drawing on empirical data…
Consumer Anxiety and Coping in Covid Times
This article develops a sociological understanding of consumer resilience across three national contexts during a prolonged, global health crisis - COVID-19. We asked 112 individuals from the UK, China and Malaysia to diarise their consumption during the initial lockdowns of 2020. We found that when social subjects were confronted with material, socio-relational and symbolic restrictions, two types of anxieties emerged - health, safety and wellbe…
Hospital corridors as lived spaces
This article explores the meanings and uses of a hospital corridor through 98 diary entries produced by the staff of an English specialist hospital during the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic. Drawing on Lefebvre's (1991, The production of space. Blackwell) threefold theorisation of space, corridors are seen as conceived, perceived and lived spaces, produced through and enabling the reconfiguration and reinterpretation of social interactions…
Sensemaking in the early stages of the Covid-19 pandemic
This article presents an analysis of personal diaries kept by health-care staff within a specialist NHS Trust in England during the initial 3 months of the COVID-19 pandemic. It adopts a moral sensemaking perspective to explore how NHS employees mobilised and reframed ideas of right and wrong in order to make sense of unprecedented uncertainty and displacement. By focussing on how the macro and micro politics of the pandemic were played out in th…
Ways to care
Food banks are organisations which occupy an uncomfortable position, being seen both as a manifestation of caring communities as well as an undesirable feature of neoliberal government. By focusing on the encounters between volunteers and food bank users within these organisations, we excavate their caring side to find three forms of compassion: compassion 'for', compassion 'with' and compassion 'within'. We show that while compassion 'for' can l…
Cultural animation in health research
BACKGROUND: A significant challenge in Patient and Public Involvement and Engagement (PPIE) in health research is to include a wide range of opinions and experiences, including from those who repeatedly find themselves at the margins of society. OBJECTIVE: To contribute to the debate around PPIE by introducing a bottom-up methodology: cultural animation (CA). Cultural Animation is an arts-based methodology of knowledge co-production and community…
Creative processes of impact making
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to provide new insights into the social impact of creative research methods. Design/methodology/approach Using the new methodology of cultural animation (CA), the authors highlight how knowledge can be co-produced between academics, community members and organisational practitioners. Drawing on the UK Connected Communities programme, the authors explore examples of immersive and performative techniques includi…
More Than a 'Little Act of Kindness'? Towards a Typology of Volunteering as Unpaid Work
Definitions of volunteering are widespread and complex, yet relatively little attention is given to volunteering as unpaid work, even though it intersects with the worlds of paid employment and the domestic sphere, cutting across individual/collective and public/private spaces. This article advances a typology of volunteering work (altruistic, instrumental, militant and forced volunteering/'voluntolding') that illuminates the complexity and dynam…
Images of the model worker in state‐socialist propaganda and novels – the case of Romania
The importance of the model worker in building the ‘multi‐faceted socialist’ society was at the heart of Communist Party propaganda in Eastern Europe. The ‘new man’, the so‐called ‘homo socialisticus’, who was prepared to sacrifice his (sic!) immediate goals and needs for the good of the society was seen to be essential for paving the road towards communism. We draw on literary work written at the height of the communist regime in Romania to shed…
A pragmatist response to `At the sharp end of new organizational ideologies' by Hassard et al
Deconstructing Discourse
Production and Consumption in Organizational Knowledge
Recent debates on the production of knowledge in organizational analysis are interpreted from a largely postmodernist, `sociology of consumption' perspective. Drawing upon the work of Jean-François Lyotard, Michel de Certeau and Stanley Deetz in particular, the analysis rejects both positivist and conventionalist theses on knowledge production in favour of a deconstructionist approach that embraces acts of production and consumption in a reflexiv…
Multiparadigm Inquiry
Organization studies is a robust field, replete with diverse, often contentious perspectives that may enrich understandings of pluralism and paradox. Yet polarization of modern paradigms and ruptures between modern and postmodern stances may inhibit researchers from tapping this potential. In response, this article delves into a provocative alternative - multiparadigm inquiry. First, we juxtapose modern, postmodern and multiparadigm approaches to…
Community and its 'virtual' promises
The paper examines and critiques some of the libertarian rhetoric surrounding the 'virtual community'. In so doing, it argues that cyberlibertarians have misunderstood what community is by placing too much emphasis on a disembodied individual. Although it remains influential, cyberlibertarian rhetoric is a far cry from the everyday practices that are being constructed and reproduced via the Internet. By drawing attention to such practices, the pa…
Community and its 'virtual' promises
Discipline at work
This paper is about discipline at work. From a distal perspective, discipline may be understood in terms of an achievement, an effect, an outcome, a social phenomenon already constituted. In contrast, a proximal perspective suggests that discipline is a social process constantly working its way through organizational practices, on its way to be constituted but not quite yet finalized. The paper documents the outcomes and the workings of disciplin…
The Crafting of Community
The construction of organizations around images of masculinity makes the position of ‘women managers’ a problematic one which calls for ‘remedial work’ (Gherardi 1995). Women managers have sought to reconcile their dualistic positions by deploying various individual and collective coping strategies typically articulated within the boundaries of their organizations. In contrast, we research a group of senior women from a British city in the Midlan…
Organizational and individual identities in transition
It is wisely recognised that the sector of small and medium enterprises is, at present, the only source of new jobs [in Romania] ... However, to focus upon SMEs solely as a means for absorbing excess unemployment is grossly to understate their role in the economy and the society. SMEs help to foster a culture of competitiveness based on higher flexibility and productivity. From a wider point of view, SMEs promote change in both the organisational…
Multiparadigm Inquiry
Organization studies is a robust field, replete with diverse, often contentious perspectives that may enrich understandings of pluralism and paradox. Yet polarization of modern paradigms and ruptures between modern and postmodern stances may inhibit researchers from tapping this potential. In response, this article delves into a provocative alternative - multiparadigm inquiry. First, we juxtapose modern, postmodern and multiparadigm approaches to…
More Than a 'Little Act of Kindness'? Towards a Typology of Volunteering as Unpaid Work
Definitions of volunteering are widespread and complex, yet relatively little attention is given to volunteering as unpaid work, even though it intersects with the worlds of paid employment and the domestic sphere, cutting across individual/collective and public/private spaces. This article advances a typology of volunteering work (altruistic, instrumental, militant and forced volunteering/'voluntolding') that illuminates the complexity and dynam…
The Crafting of Community
The construction of organizations around images of masculinity makes the position of ‘women managers’ a problematic one which calls for ‘remedial work’ (Gherardi 1995). Women managers have sought to reconcile their dualistic positions by deploying various individual and collective coping strategies typically articulated within the boundaries of their organizations. In contrast, we research a group of senior women from a British city in the Midlan…
Ways to care
Food banks are organisations which occupy an uncomfortable position, being seen both as a manifestation of caring communities as well as an undesirable feature of neoliberal government. By focusing on the encounters between volunteers and food bank users within these organisations, we excavate their caring side to find three forms of compassion: compassion 'for', compassion 'with' and compassion 'within'. We show that while compassion 'for' can l…
Sensemaking in the early stages of the Covid-19 pandemic
This article presents an analysis of personal diaries kept by health-care staff within a specialist NHS Trust in England during the initial 3 months of the COVID-19 pandemic. It adopts a moral sensemaking perspective to explore how NHS employees mobilised and reframed ideas of right and wrong in order to make sense of unprecedented uncertainty and displacement. By focussing on how the macro and micro politics of the pandemic were played out in th…
Organizational and individual identities in transition
It is wisely recognised that the sector of small and medium enterprises is, at present, the only source of new jobs [in Romania] ... However, to focus upon SMEs solely as a means for absorbing excess unemployment is grossly to understate their role in the economy and the society. SMEs help to foster a culture of competitiveness based on higher flexibility and productivity. From a wider point of view, SMEs promote change in both the organisational…
The Role of Boundary Spanning in Building Trust
This paper investigates the impact of boundary spanning activities on building trust as a means of tackling health inequalities in hardly reached communities. Lack of trust has been identified as a barrier to engagement with healthcare services, resulting in poorer health outcomes. Engaging with hardly reached communities is challenging due to the social and symbolic boundaries prevalent in community healthcare settings. Drawing on empirical data…
Images of the model worker in state‐socialist propaganda and novels – the case of Romania
The importance of the model worker in building the ‘multi‐faceted socialist’ society was at the heart of Communist Party propaganda in Eastern Europe. The ‘new man’, the so‐called ‘homo socialisticus’, who was prepared to sacrifice his (sic!) immediate goals and needs for the good of the society was seen to be essential for paving the road towards communism. We draw on literary work written at the height of the communist regime in Romania to shed…
A pragmatist response to `At the sharp end of new organizational ideologies' by Hassard et al
Organizational and individual identities in transition
It is wisely recognised that the sector of small and medium enterprises is, at present, the only source of new jobs [in Romania] ... However, to focus upon SMEs solely as a means for absorbing excess unemployment is grossly to understate their role in the economy and the society. SMEs help to foster a culture of competitiveness based on higher flexibility and productivity. From a wider point of view, SMEs promote change in both the organisational…
Community and its 'virtual' promises
The paper examines and critiques some of the libertarian rhetoric surrounding the 'virtual community'. In so doing, it argues that cyberlibertarians have misunderstood what community is by placing too much emphasis on a disembodied individual. Although it remains influential, cyberlibertarian rhetoric is a far cry from the everyday practices that are being constructed and reproduced via the Internet. By drawing attention to such practices, the pa…
Community and its 'virtual' promises
Discipline at work
This paper is about discipline at work. From a distal perspective, discipline may be understood in terms of an achievement, an effect, an outcome, a social phenomenon already constituted. In contrast, a proximal perspective suggests that discipline is a social process constantly working its way through organizational practices, on its way to be constituted but not quite yet finalized. The paper documents the outcomes and the workings of disciplin…
The Crafting of Community
The construction of organizations around images of masculinity makes the position of ‘women managers’ a problematic one which calls for ‘remedial work’ (Gherardi 1995). Women managers have sought to reconcile their dualistic positions by deploying various individual and collective coping strategies typically articulated within the boundaries of their organizations. In contrast, we research a group of senior women from a British city in the Midlan…
Production and Consumption in Organizational Knowledge
Recent debates on the production of knowledge in organizational analysis are interpreted from a largely postmodernist, `sociology of consumption' perspective. Drawing upon the work of Jean-François Lyotard, Michel de Certeau and Stanley Deetz in particular, the analysis rejects both positivist and conventionalist theses on knowledge production in favour of a deconstructionist approach that embraces acts of production and consumption in a reflexiv…
Multiparadigm Inquiry
Organization studies is a robust field, replete with diverse, often contentious perspectives that may enrich understandings of pluralism and paradox. Yet polarization of modern paradigms and ruptures between modern and postmodern stances may inhibit researchers from tapping this potential. In response, this article delves into a provocative alternative - multiparadigm inquiry. First, we juxtapose modern, postmodern and multiparadigm approaches to…
Deconstructing Discourse
A pragmatist response to `At the sharp end of new organizational ideologies' by Hassard et al
Images of the model worker in state‐socialist propaganda and novels – the case of Romania
The importance of the model worker in building the ‘multi‐faceted socialist’ society was at the heart of Communist Party propaganda in Eastern Europe. The ‘new man’, the so‐called ‘homo socialisticus’, who was prepared to sacrifice his (sic!) immediate goals and needs for the good of the society was seen to be essential for paving the road towards communism. We draw on literary work written at the height of the communist regime in Romania to shed…
More Than a 'Little Act of Kindness'? Towards a Typology of Volunteering as Unpaid Work
Definitions of volunteering are widespread and complex, yet relatively little attention is given to volunteering as unpaid work, even though it intersects with the worlds of paid employment and the domestic sphere, cutting across individual/collective and public/private spaces. This article advances a typology of volunteering work (altruistic, instrumental, militant and forced volunteering/'voluntolding') that illuminates the complexity and dynam…
Cultural animation in health research
BACKGROUND: A significant challenge in Patient and Public Involvement and Engagement (PPIE) in health research is to include a wide range of opinions and experiences, including from those who repeatedly find themselves at the margins of society. OBJECTIVE: To contribute to the debate around PPIE by introducing a bottom-up methodology: cultural animation (CA). Cultural Animation is an arts-based methodology of knowledge co-production and community…
Creative processes of impact making
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to provide new insights into the social impact of creative research methods. Design/methodology/approach Using the new methodology of cultural animation (CA), the authors highlight how knowledge can be co-produced between academics, community members and organisational practitioners. Drawing on the UK Connected Communities programme, the authors explore examples of immersive and performative techniques includi…
Ways to care
Food banks are organisations which occupy an uncomfortable position, being seen both as a manifestation of caring communities as well as an undesirable feature of neoliberal government. By focusing on the encounters between volunteers and food bank users within these organisations, we excavate their caring side to find three forms of compassion: compassion 'for', compassion 'with' and compassion 'within'. We show that while compassion 'for' can l…
Sensemaking in the early stages of the Covid-19 pandemic
This article presents an analysis of personal diaries kept by health-care staff within a specialist NHS Trust in England during the initial 3 months of the COVID-19 pandemic. It adopts a moral sensemaking perspective to explore how NHS employees mobilised and reframed ideas of right and wrong in order to make sense of unprecedented uncertainty and displacement. By focussing on how the macro and micro politics of the pandemic were played out in th…
Consumer Anxiety and Coping in Covid Times
This article develops a sociological understanding of consumer resilience across three national contexts during a prolonged, global health crisis - COVID-19. We asked 112 individuals from the UK, China and Malaysia to diarise their consumption during the initial lockdowns of 2020. We found that when social subjects were confronted with material, socio-relational and symbolic restrictions, two types of anxieties emerged - health, safety and wellbe…
Hospital corridors as lived spaces
This article explores the meanings and uses of a hospital corridor through 98 diary entries produced by the staff of an English specialist hospital during the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic. Drawing on Lefebvre's (1991, The production of space. Blackwell) threefold theorisation of space, corridors are seen as conceived, perceived and lived spaces, produced through and enabling the reconfiguration and reinterpretation of social interactions…
The Role of Boundary Spanning in Building Trust
This paper investigates the impact of boundary spanning activities on building trust as a means of tackling health inequalities in hardly reached communities. Lack of trust has been identified as a barrier to engagement with healthcare services, resulting in poorer health outcomes. Engaging with hardly reached communities is challenging due to the social and symbolic boundaries prevalent in community healthcare settings. Drawing on empirical data…
Sociology (16 obras) · Political science (12 obras) · Psychology (9 obras) · Public relations (9 obras) · Epistemology (8 obras) · Management and Organizational Studies (7 obras) · Philosophy (7 obras) · Computer Science (6 obras) · Law (6 obras) · Social Psychology (6 obras)