Helga Wild
Biographic Data
| ID | 4226348 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Helga Wild |
| GIVEN NAMES | Helga |
| FAMILY NAME | Wild |
| SIGNATURE | WILD H |
| AFFILIATIONS | Water Cooler Logic Inc, CA1 |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Technocracy Encounters Praxis in a World Bank Development Effort
This essay is based on an ethnography by Parker Shipton (2011) of a World Bank development effort in Africa which failed spectacularly. The reason for its failure – and all similarly conceived efforts – lies in its disregard of the ecology of social practices operating at different levels of the implementation. “Ecology of practices” is Isabelle Stengers’ (2010: 37) term for the complex of practices working symbiotically in a domain or locale. Th…
Innovation in the Anthropological Perspective: Insights and Consequences for the Theory, Practice, and Design of Innovating
Anthropological perspective
Ethnography and the Corporate Encounter: Reflections on Research in and of Corporations
Businesses and other organizations are increasingly hiring anthropologists and other ethnographically-oriented social scientists as employees, consultants, and advisors. The nature of such work, as described in this volume, raises crucial questions about potential implications to disciplines of critical inquiry such as anthropology. In addressing these issues, the contributors explore how researchers encounter and engage sites of organizational p…
Practice and the Theory of Practice. Rereading Certeau's Practice of Everyday Life
The Singularity Has Come and Gone: The Beginning of Organization
This paper reflects on a genesis that seems inseparable from that of the human, namely, the coming into being of social organization. It seems impossible to think of a time when humans were not embedded in some social configuration, but it is equally impossible to think of the human species evolving complete with sociocultural formations attached. Even deciding on the word for the beginning of organization prejudges the issue: are we speaking of …
The Making of Water Cooler Logic's Stakeholder Ethnography Composting as a Metaphor for Innovation
This article traces the development of the Water Cooler Logic methodology and its most innovative feature, stakeholder ethnography, from within the conceptual setting of Silicon Valley in the nineties. I sketch a line of direct and indirect influences starting from computational ideas of intelligence, early corporate uses of ethnography, and new institutional forms to the Institute for Research on Learning's commitment to a social view of learnin…
The Making of Water Cooler Logic's Stakeholder Ethnography Composting as a Metaphor for Innovation
This article traces the development of the Water Cooler Logic methodology and its most innovative feature, stakeholder ethnography, from within the conceptual setting of Silicon Valley in the nineties. I sketch a line of direct and indirect influences starting from computational ideas of intelligence, early corporate uses of ethnography, and new institutional forms to the Institute for Research on Learning's commitment to a social view of learnin…
Ethnography and the Corporate Encounter: Reflections on Research in and of Corporations
Businesses and other organizations are increasingly hiring anthropologists and other ethnographically-oriented social scientists as employees, consultants, and advisors. The nature of such work, as described in this volume, raises crucial questions about potential implications to disciplines of critical inquiry such as anthropology. In addressing these issues, the contributors explore how researchers encounter and engage sites of organizational p…
The Making of Water Cooler Logic's Stakeholder Ethnography Composting as a Metaphor for Innovation
This article traces the development of the Water Cooler Logic methodology and its most innovative feature, stakeholder ethnography, from within the conceptual setting of Silicon Valley in the nineties. I sketch a line of direct and indirect influences starting from computational ideas of intelligence, early corporate uses of ethnography, and new institutional forms to the Institute for Research on Learning's commitment to a social view of learnin…
The Singularity Has Come and Gone: The Beginning of Organization
This paper reflects on a genesis that seems inseparable from that of the human, namely, the coming into being of social organization. It seems impossible to think of a time when humans were not embedded in some social configuration, but it is equally impossible to think of the human species evolving complete with sociocultural formations attached. Even deciding on the word for the beginning of organization prejudges the issue: are we speaking of …
Practice and the Theory of Practice. Rereading Certeau's Practice of Everyday Life
Ethnography and the Corporate Encounter: Reflections on Research in and of Corporations
Businesses and other organizations are increasingly hiring anthropologists and other ethnographically-oriented social scientists as employees, consultants, and advisors. The nature of such work, as described in this volume, raises crucial questions about potential implications to disciplines of critical inquiry such as anthropology. In addressing these issues, the contributors explore how researchers encounter and engage sites of organizational p…
Innovation in the Anthropological Perspective: Insights and Consequences for the Theory, Practice, and Design of Innovating
Anthropological perspective
Technocracy Encounters Praxis in a World Bank Development Effort
This essay is based on an ethnography by Parker Shipton (2011) of a World Bank development effort in Africa which failed spectacularly. The reason for its failure – and all similarly conceived efforts – lies in its disregard of the ecology of social practices operating at different levels of the implementation. “Ecology of practices” is Isabelle Stengers’ (2010: 37) term for the complex of practices working symbiotically in a domain or locale. Th…
Sociology (5 works) · Anthropology (3 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · Ethnography (3 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Engineering (2 works) · Engineering ethics (2 works) · Information Systems Theories and Implementation (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Political science (2 works)