Ann Game
Biographic Data
| ID | 178871 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ann Game |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ann |
| FAMILY NAME | Game |
| SIGNATURE | GAME A |
| AFFILIATIONS | UNSW Sydney |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 33 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 357 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 33 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1970 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Roaming around computer-land
It is not surprising that computer workers have such naive beliefs in technology as a force for progress. In manufacturing, banking and retailing, the introduction of computerised technology is having a devastating effect on the workforce. Of the 70,000 or more computer workers in Australia, most are employed by the computer companies or by user organisations. Marxist accounts of computing, as with other labour processes, have focused almost excl…
Kentucky-fried money
In February 1982 a personnel manager in one of Australia’s most conservative banks organised a ‘women at work’ get-together of eight ‘career’ women, to which we were invited. It’s a hanking image problem-the males think, well there’s not going to be enough careers, so why bother, there’s no incentive ... if people still think of a male as a breadwinner. The finance sector expanded rapidly in the postwar boom years. Women moved into the banks duri…
Masculinity and machines
In the new international division of production there is little room for an independent viable manufacturing base in Australia. In 1946 only 13 per cent of Australian homes had a refrigerator and a mere two per cent had a washing machine. The concept of skill was traditionally bound up with craft mastery. An overall knowledge of products and processes was combined with the manual dexterity required to actually carry on a specific branch of produc…
Sex and power in hospitals
The primary division of labour in health represents a sexual division in its most blatant form, namely that between male medicine and female nursing. Our focus in this chapter is on nursing work within hospitals though this is not where all nurses work. The irony in all of this is that nursing requiries and encourages mothering qualities, and yet conditions and hours of work make it almost impossible to be a mother as well. Hospital administratio…
Working at a discount
Women moved into retailing, as in banking, in the 1950s: by 1974 they constituted 80 per cent of union membership. Retailing in its modern form emerged with the rise to prominence of the department stores in the 1880s. Employers were always keen to take on more women: the first half of this century saw a running battle between employers wanting to extend the number of departments in which women could work and male-dominated unions trying to prese…
The labour process of consumption
In this chapter, the authors contest claims based on some fundamental misconceptions. Technological change in the area has indeed been dramatic but it has not reduced housework. It is not only that the sexes have different primary spheres. Nineteenth century had already seen a big increase in domestic servants, and particularly female domestic servants, to meet the consumption capacities of the new ‘middle class’. It might be thought that with th…
Gender at Work
Three themes are drawn together in this book: gender and sexuality, the organisation of work, and the impact of technological change. Their inter-relationship is explored in six area studies: manufacturing, banking, retailing, computing, nursing and housework.Gender at Work presents an account of how each area has changed since the Second World War; sets out ways in which the notion of what constitutes 'proper' work for men and women changes with…
Ecological Being
This article develops an understanding of ecological being that, we argue, is based on the ontology of relation. We make a conceptual distinction between subject-based and relational ontological forms. While these ontological forms coexist in everyday life, we argue that ecological awareness arises only from the time and space of relational ontology. Ecological awareness involves open response to difference. When awareness is an attribute of a su…
How to Understand Custodial Belonging
Debates about ecological responsibility are interested in different forms of belonging. This article develops an understanding of a custodial form of belonging based on the logic of relation, which we distinguish from a proprietorial form of belonging based on the logic of identity. Theorists working on questions of belonging use a language of custodianship when describing a sense of responsibility and care that arises through connection or relat…
Belonging: From identity logic to relational logic
Recent work in Australian cultural studies has drawn on Mauss' analysis of gift-exchange to question the common presumption that social encounters necessarily involve either opposition or appropriation. This article agrees with these writers on empirical grounds, but argues that, rigorously speaking, exchange is based on identity logic which is necessarily oppositional. There is therefore a tension between, on the one hand, their use of the langu…
Hospitality: How Woundedness Heals
This article is based on the ethnography of a drop‐in center for the destitute. Making a distinction between curing and healing, we argue that this center heals through its hospitality; its open acceptance of mutual woundedness. Rather than being the problem to be cured, woundedness heals the fantasies of perfection that alienate us from each other and from our whole being. Hospitality brings people together in the wholeness of community, and the…
My corner of the world: Bachelard and Bondi Beach
Creative Practice: The time of grace
This article addresses the time of creative practice, the transformations brought about by the ritualization of activity. We argue that the discipline of ascetic practice allows the emergence of gift, that is, that it allows things to happen through rituals rather than the will of participants. This is a giving- and-receiving that occurs in open states that suspend the boundaries of the subject, of inside and outside, of giver or receiver. The va…
Caring for the Destitute: Finding a Calling
It is commonly assumed that the motives of caregivers influence the quality of care given. Many assume that good caring can only take place where the caregiver's motives are altruistic, where the giver has no desire for returns or rewards. Others argue that there are always subjective motives involved, that givers always receive something in return: apparently selfless motives mask the workings of ubiquitous exchange logic. While the focus on the…
Meetings: Gifts without exchange
This article examines the different theories of meeting offered by Durkheim, Mauss, Sartre, Lévi-Strauss, Bohm, Levinas and Buber. Through this examination we question the common assumption that social life, and more particularly the gift, is based on exchange — on the sequence of giving, receiving and reciprocating — which is fundamentally a Hegelian logic of subjects and objects. While many aspects of social life take this form, true meeting is…
From the De-Centred Subject to Relationality
The significance of signs
In Camera Lucida, Barthes makes a distinction between a semiological approach and a phenomenological approach to the sign. While semiotic theory has usually focused on signs that work through mediation and representation, in this article we investigate the possibility of a sign that is immediate, experienced as a presence. This is not a sign of, or even the impossibility of a sign of; rather, it is a sign that just is, without an elsewhere to ref…
The Teacher’s Vocation: Ontology of Response
Becoming Who You Are: The time of education
Desirous time is not conducive to learning because its fantasies are distractions from the present moment, the time when genuine creative possibilities emerge. In contrast, the time of love, of an I-Thou relation, is the time of potential and infinitude. This is when engaged learning occurs, and when students develop the practices that open them to a creative way of being. In contrast to the future-oriented linearity of desirous time, the time of…
Everyday presences
The everyday is often seen as the time when nothing happens. This is a view that follows from a sense of chronological time, Euclidean space and Hegelian identity-play. The everyday can also be experienced as the time of eternity, the space of infinitude and the ontological condition of love. This epiphanic experience of the sacred is not of a release from the everyday but a return to it. The sacred is not the exception to the everyday but the gr…
Care and creativity
This paper challenges conventional assumptions about the nature of care by considering it in relational rather than interactional terms. Care is an in-between or transitional phenomenon, requiring a trusting suspension of self and a grateful holding that is equally a grateful openness to being held. The therapeutic effects of care can be understood as forms of inspiration, creativity, and aliveness
Riding: Embodying the Centaur
Through a phenomenological study of horse-human relations, this article explores the ways in which, as embodied beings, we live relationally, rather than as separate human identities. Conceptually this challenges oppositional logic and humanist assumptions, but where poststructuralist treatments of these issues tend to remain abstract, this article is concerned with an embodied demonstration of the ways in which we experience a relational or in-b…
Travel
This article investigates the implications of substituting the trope of travel for that of globalization. By exploring the possible temporal and spatial assumptions in 'travel', it considers how this might allow for contigency and particularity in lived experience and in forms of knowledge. In contemporary cultural theory, movement (or travel) and multiplicity are valued as principles of meaning, knowledge and the self; but there is a danger that…
Sociology's Emotions
Cette étude porte sur la place qu'occupe l'émotion dans l'élaboration du savoir et examine la contribution qu'elle apporte dans la compréhension des pratiques du savoir “incorporé”. Toute pratique du savoir, qu'elle soit reconnue ou non, comporte un élément d'émotion. L'auteure se penche sur la valorisation de l'émotion entre autres en phénoménologie, en portant une attention toute particulière à la signification des sentiments, qui englobent l'a…
Time Unhinged
This paper is concerned with developing an understanding of the lived time of experience. Reconsidering Bergson's duration, it is argued that by privileging flow to the exclusion of stasis, he does not take his own concern with contingency far enough. Through an analysis of experiences of rupture I argue that discontinuities and moments of stasis are integral to the movement of lived experience. What is at issue here is how we live the future, di…
Riding: Embodying the Centaur
Through a phenomenological study of horse-human relations, this article explores the ways in which, as embodied beings, we live relationally, rather than as separate human identities. Conceptually this challenges oppositional logic and humanist assumptions, but where poststructuralist treatments of these issues tend to remain abstract, this article is concerned with an embodied demonstration of the ways in which we experience a relational or in-b…
Gender at Work
Three themes are drawn together in this book: gender and sexuality, the organisation of work, and the impact of technological change. Their inter-relationship is explored in six area studies: manufacturing, banking, retailing, computing, nursing and housework.Gender at Work presents an account of how each area has changed since the Second World War; sets out ways in which the notion of what constitutes 'proper' work for men and women changes with…
Undoing the social: Towards a Deconstructive Sociology
Passionate Sociology
What is passionate sociology? Does sociology merit passion? Too often sociology is taught as a detached system of thought and practice. Passion is regarded as something to be avoided or treated with suspicion. Now at last we have a book that frankly argues for passion as being necessary for sociology. The text is not simply about passionate sociology, it demonstrates passionate sociology
Sociology's Emotions
Cette étude porte sur la place qu'occupe l'émotion dans l'élaboration du savoir et examine la contribution qu'elle apporte dans la compréhension des pratiques du savoir “incorporé”. Toute pratique du savoir, qu'elle soit reconnue ou non, comporte un élément d'émotion. L'auteure se penche sur la valorisation de l'émotion entre autres en phénoménologie, en portant une attention toute particulière à la signification des sentiments, qui englobent l'a…
My corner of the world: Bachelard and Bondi Beach
Time Unhinged
This paper is concerned with developing an understanding of the lived time of experience. Reconsidering Bergson's duration, it is argued that by privileging flow to the exclusion of stasis, he does not take his own concern with contingency far enough. Through an analysis of experiences of rupture I argue that discontinuities and moments of stasis are integral to the movement of lived experience. What is at issue here is how we live the future, di…
Creative Practice: The time of grace
This article addresses the time of creative practice, the transformations brought about by the ritualization of activity. We argue that the discipline of ascetic practice allows the emergence of gift, that is, that it allows things to happen through rituals rather than the will of participants. This is a giving- and-receiving that occurs in open states that suspend the boundaries of the subject, of inside and outside, of giver or receiver. The va…
The Teacher’s Vocation: Ontology of Response
Undoing the Social: Toward a Deconstructive Sociology
Research and writing: Secretaries and Bosses
Belonging: From identity logic to relational logic
Recent work in Australian cultural studies has drawn on Mauss' analysis of gift-exchange to question the common presumption that social encounters necessarily involve either opposition or appropriation. This article agrees with these writers on empirical grounds, but argues that, rigorously speaking, exchange is based on identity logic which is necessarily oppositional. There is therefore a tension between, on the one hand, their use of the langu…
Becoming Who You Are: The time of education
Desirous time is not conducive to learning because its fantasies are distractions from the present moment, the time when genuine creative possibilities emerge. In contrast, the time of love, of an I-Thou relation, is the time of potential and infinitude. This is when engaged learning occurs, and when students develop the practices that open them to a creative way of being. In contrast to the future-oriented linearity of desirous time, the time of…
Everyday presences
The everyday is often seen as the time when nothing happens. This is a view that follows from a sense of chronological time, Euclidean space and Hegelian identity-play. The everyday can also be experienced as the time of eternity, the space of infinitude and the ontological condition of love. This epiphanic experience of the sacred is not of a release from the everyday but a return to it. The sacred is not the exception to the everyday but the gr…
Travel
This article investigates the implications of substituting the trope of travel for that of globalization. By exploring the possible temporal and spatial assumptions in 'travel', it considers how this might allow for contigency and particularity in lived experience and in forms of knowledge. In contemporary cultural theory, movement (or travel) and multiplicity are valued as principles of meaning, knowledge and the self; but there is a danger that…
Presence of the Gift
Philosophers, social theorists and cultural theorists have generally followed Mauss in assuming that gifts entail obligatory exchanges between distinct parties who give, receive and reciprocate, and, that the social emerges through this sequence of obligations. It is the obligation to reciprocate, for example, that led Derrida to claim that the gift is impossible. We consider the alternative ideas that non-exchange gifts are not only possible but…
Sexuality and the Suburban Dream
Gender at Work
Research and writing: Secretaries and Bosses
Undoing the social: Towards a Deconstructive Sociology
Undoing the Social: Toward a Deconstructive Sociology
'Matter Out of Place': The Management of Academic Work
Passionate Sociology
What is passionate sociology? Does sociology merit passion? Too often sociology is taught as a detached system of thought and practice. Passion is regarded as something to be avoided or treated with suspicion. Now at last we have a book that frankly argues for passion as being necessary for sociology. The text is not simply about passionate sociology, it demonstrates passionate sociology
Sociology's Emotions
Cette étude porte sur la place qu'occupe l'émotion dans l'élaboration du savoir et examine la contribution qu'elle apporte dans la compréhension des pratiques du savoir “incorporé”. Toute pratique du savoir, qu'elle soit reconnue ou non, comporte un élément d'émotion. L'auteure se penche sur la valorisation de l'émotion entre autres en phénoménologie, en portant une attention toute particulière à la signification des sentiments, qui englobent l'a…
Time Unhinged
This paper is concerned with developing an understanding of the lived time of experience. Reconsidering Bergson's duration, it is argued that by privileging flow to the exclusion of stasis, he does not take his own concern with contingency far enough. Through an analysis of experiences of rupture I argue that discontinuities and moments of stasis are integral to the movement of lived experience. What is at issue here is how we live the future, di…
Travel
This article investigates the implications of substituting the trope of travel for that of globalization. By exploring the possible temporal and spatial assumptions in 'travel', it considers how this might allow for contigency and particularity in lived experience and in forms of knowledge. In contemporary cultural theory, movement (or travel) and multiplicity are valued as principles of meaning, knowledge and the self; but there is a danger that…
Care and creativity
This paper challenges conventional assumptions about the nature of care by considering it in relational rather than interactional terms. Care is an in-between or transitional phenomenon, requiring a trusting suspension of self and a grateful holding that is equally a grateful openness to being held. The therapeutic effects of care can be understood as forms of inspiration, creativity, and aliveness
Riding: Embodying the Centaur
Through a phenomenological study of horse-human relations, this article explores the ways in which, as embodied beings, we live relationally, rather than as separate human identities. Conceptually this challenges oppositional logic and humanist assumptions, but where poststructuralist treatments of these issues tend to remain abstract, this article is concerned with an embodied demonstration of the ways in which we experience a relational or in-b…
Everyday presences
The everyday is often seen as the time when nothing happens. This is a view that follows from a sense of chronological time, Euclidean space and Hegelian identity-play. The everyday can also be experienced as the time of eternity, the space of infinitude and the ontological condition of love. This epiphanic experience of the sacred is not of a release from the everyday but a return to it. The sacred is not the exception to the everyday but the gr…
Becoming Who You Are: The time of education
Desirous time is not conducive to learning because its fantasies are distractions from the present moment, the time when genuine creative possibilities emerge. In contrast, the time of love, of an I-Thou relation, is the time of potential and infinitude. This is when engaged learning occurs, and when students develop the practices that open them to a creative way of being. In contrast to the future-oriented linearity of desirous time, the time of…
Meetings: Gifts without exchange
This article examines the different theories of meeting offered by Durkheim, Mauss, Sartre, Lévi-Strauss, Bohm, Levinas and Buber. Through this examination we question the common assumption that social life, and more particularly the gift, is based on exchange — on the sequence of giving, receiving and reciprocating — which is fundamentally a Hegelian logic of subjects and objects. While many aspects of social life take this form, true meeting is…
From the De-Centred Subject to Relationality
The significance of signs
In Camera Lucida, Barthes makes a distinction between a semiological approach and a phenomenological approach to the sign. While semiotic theory has usually focused on signs that work through mediation and representation, in this article we investigate the possibility of a sign that is immediate, experienced as a presence. This is not a sign of, or even the impossibility of a sign of; rather, it is a sign that just is, without an elsewhere to ref…
The Teacher’s Vocation: Ontology of Response
Caring for the Destitute: Finding a Calling
It is commonly assumed that the motives of caregivers influence the quality of care given. Many assume that good caring can only take place where the caregiver's motives are altruistic, where the giver has no desire for returns or rewards. Others argue that there are always subjective motives involved, that givers always receive something in return: apparently selfless motives mask the workings of ubiquitous exchange logic. While the focus on the…
Hospitality: How Woundedness Heals
This article is based on the ethnography of a drop‐in center for the destitute. Making a distinction between curing and healing, we argue that this center heals through its hospitality; its open acceptance of mutual woundedness. Rather than being the problem to be cured, woundedness heals the fantasies of perfection that alienate us from each other and from our whole being. Hospitality brings people together in the wholeness of community, and the…
My corner of the world: Bachelard and Bondi Beach
Creative Practice: The time of grace
This article addresses the time of creative practice, the transformations brought about by the ritualization of activity. We argue that the discipline of ascetic practice allows the emergence of gift, that is, that it allows things to happen through rituals rather than the will of participants. This is a giving- and-receiving that occurs in open states that suspend the boundaries of the subject, of inside and outside, of giver or receiver. The va…
Belonging: From identity logic to relational logic
Recent work in Australian cultural studies has drawn on Mauss' analysis of gift-exchange to question the common presumption that social encounters necessarily involve either opposition or appropriation. This article agrees with these writers on empirical grounds, but argues that, rigorously speaking, exchange is based on identity logic which is necessarily oppositional. There is therefore a tension between, on the one hand, their use of the langu…
Ecological Being
This article develops an understanding of ecological being that, we argue, is based on the ontology of relation. We make a conceptual distinction between subject-based and relational ontological forms. While these ontological forms coexist in everyday life, we argue that ecological awareness arises only from the time and space of relational ontology. Ecological awareness involves open response to difference. When awareness is an attribute of a su…
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