Renita Thedvall
Biographic Data
| ID | 648623 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Renita Thedvall |
| GIVEN NAMES | Renita |
| FAMILY NAME | Thedvall |
| SIGNATURE | THEDVALL R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Stockholm University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1816-3572 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 11 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1969 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Time and space/body and face: Meeting ethnography in the pluriverse
Meetings are our most ubiquitous form of everyday collective human engagement. The pandemic lockdowns shifted the taken-for-granted architecture of meetings across many contexts around the world, from the presumptive in-person meeting with bodies in a single space to the presumed virtual meeting with many faces, on many screens, in many physical spaces and time zones. What did this "zoomiverse" shift mean for our ways of making organization, maki…
Blend Gaps through Papers and Meetings? Collaboration between the Social Services and Jobcentres
The policy word “collaboration” is a political buzzword omnipresent within human service organisations in Sweden and other countries. Collaboration stands for services working together toward a common goal. It is understood as the solution for a multitude of problems, putting the client at the centre and involving the services needed for making them financially self-sufficient. Public service collaboration assumes gaps between entities, whether t…
Meeting Ethnography: Meetings as Key Technologies of Contemporary Governance, Development, and Resistance
This volume asks and addresses elusive ontological, epistemological, and methodological questions about meetings. What are meetings? What sort of knowledge, identities, and power relationships are produced, performed, communicated, and legitimized through meetings? How do—and how might—ethnographers study meetings as objects, and how might they best conduct research in meetings as particular elements of their field sites? Through contributions fr…
Affective atmospheres of hope: Management Model Training in Public Reforms
PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to argue that we need to take seriously what affective atmosphere means in public reform. Particular emphasis is put on understanding the mechanisms of hope (Brunsson, 2006) through affective atmosphere (Anderson, 2009) in regards to a management model training course.Design/methodology/approachEthnographically, the paper is placed in a Lean coach training course, led by two consultants, in the public care serv…
Managing preschool the Lean way. Evaluating work processes by numbers and colours: Managing Preschool the Lean Way
The management model Lean, originating from the car industry, has in recent years spread like wildfire in the public sector. One important component in the model is to set targets that are measurable to show results, visualising how taxpayers' money is used. The article examines how Swedish public‐sector preschool staff handle evaluative techniques in the form of numbers and colours within the Lean model. The article shows their eagerness to comp…
Social Sustainability Requires Social Sustainability: Procedural Prerequisites for Reaching Substantive Goals
The synergies and trade-offs between the various dimensions of sustainable development are attracting a rising scholarly attention. Departing from the scholarly debate, this article focuses on internal relationships within social sustainability. Our key claim is that it is difficult to strengthen substantive social sustainability goals unless there are key elements of social sustainability contained in the very procedures intended to work toward …
Negotiating impartial indicators: Putting transparency into practice in the EU
Over the last twenty years, statistics and indicators have come to be closely associated with the notion of transparency. The argument is based on a view that indicators make policy outcomes transparent, as objectively revealed in statistical diagrams and tables. Indicators are, however, politically and culturally loaded. This becomes especially evident in an international organization such as the European Union (EU). The article shows that the p…
Plans for Altering Work: Fitting Kids into Car-Management Documents in a Swedish Preschool
The focus of this article is Lean management action-plan documents and the type of knowledge and values they project when used in Swedish public preschools. The Lean model, also called the Toyota model, originated in the car industry. Two key features of the model were eliminating waste and ensuring that there was a system for continuous improvements in the work processes to render them as efficient as possible. The article explores the absurditi…
Negotiating impartial indicators: Putting transparency into practice in the EU
Over the last twenty years, statistics and indicators have come to be closely associated with the notion of transparency. The argument is based on a view that indicators make policy outcomes transparent, as objectively revealed in statistical diagrams and tables. Indicators are, however, politically and culturally loaded. This becomes especially evident in an international organization such as the European Union (EU). The article shows that the p…
Blend Gaps through Papers and Meetings? Collaboration between the Social Services and Jobcentres
The policy word “collaboration” is a political buzzword omnipresent within human service organisations in Sweden and other countries. Collaboration stands for services working together toward a common goal. It is understood as the solution for a multitude of problems, putting the client at the centre and involving the services needed for making them financially self-sufficient. Public service collaboration assumes gaps between entities, whether t…
Affective atmospheres of hope: Management Model Training in Public Reforms
PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to argue that we need to take seriously what affective atmosphere means in public reform. Particular emphasis is put on understanding the mechanisms of hope (Brunsson, 2006) through affective atmosphere (Anderson, 2009) in regards to a management model training course.Design/methodology/approachEthnographically, the paper is placed in a Lean coach training course, led by two consultants, in the public care serv…
Plans for Altering Work: Fitting Kids into Car-Management Documents in a Swedish Preschool
The focus of this article is Lean management action-plan documents and the type of knowledge and values they project when used in Swedish public preschools. The Lean model, also called the Toyota model, originated in the car industry. Two key features of the model were eliminating waste and ensuring that there was a system for continuous improvements in the work processes to render them as efficient as possible. The article explores the absurditi…
Plans for Altering Work: Fitting Kids into Car-Management Documents in a Swedish Preschool
The focus of this article is Lean management action-plan documents and the type of knowledge and values they project when used in Swedish public preschools. The Lean model, also called the Toyota model, originated in the car industry. Two key features of the model were eliminating waste and ensuring that there was a system for continuous improvements in the work processes to render them as efficient as possible. The article explores the absurditi…
Negotiating impartial indicators: Putting transparency into practice in the EU
Over the last twenty years, statistics and indicators have come to be closely associated with the notion of transparency. The argument is based on a view that indicators make policy outcomes transparent, as objectively revealed in statistical diagrams and tables. Indicators are, however, politically and culturally loaded. This becomes especially evident in an international organization such as the European Union (EU). The article shows that the p…
Managing preschool the Lean way. Evaluating work processes by numbers and colours: Managing Preschool the Lean Way
The management model Lean, originating from the car industry, has in recent years spread like wildfire in the public sector. One important component in the model is to set targets that are measurable to show results, visualising how taxpayers' money is used. The article examines how Swedish public‐sector preschool staff handle evaluative techniques in the form of numbers and colours within the Lean model. The article shows their eagerness to comp…
Social Sustainability Requires Social Sustainability: Procedural Prerequisites for Reaching Substantive Goals
The synergies and trade-offs between the various dimensions of sustainable development are attracting a rising scholarly attention. Departing from the scholarly debate, this article focuses on internal relationships within social sustainability. Our key claim is that it is difficult to strengthen substantive social sustainability goals unless there are key elements of social sustainability contained in the very procedures intended to work toward …
Meeting Ethnography: Meetings as Key Technologies of Contemporary Governance, Development, and Resistance
This volume asks and addresses elusive ontological, epistemological, and methodological questions about meetings. What are meetings? What sort of knowledge, identities, and power relationships are produced, performed, communicated, and legitimized through meetings? How do—and how might—ethnographers study meetings as objects, and how might they best conduct research in meetings as particular elements of their field sites? Through contributions fr…
Affective atmospheres of hope: Management Model Training in Public Reforms
PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to argue that we need to take seriously what affective atmosphere means in public reform. Particular emphasis is put on understanding the mechanisms of hope (Brunsson, 2006) through affective atmosphere (Anderson, 2009) in regards to a management model training course.Design/methodology/approachEthnographically, the paper is placed in a Lean coach training course, led by two consultants, in the public care serv…
Blend Gaps through Papers and Meetings? Collaboration between the Social Services and Jobcentres
The policy word “collaboration” is a political buzzword omnipresent within human service organisations in Sweden and other countries. Collaboration stands for services working together toward a common goal. It is understood as the solution for a multitude of problems, putting the client at the centre and involving the services needed for making them financially self-sufficient. Public service collaboration assumes gaps between entities, whether t…
Time and space/body and face: Meeting ethnography in the pluriverse
Meetings are our most ubiquitous form of everyday collective human engagement. The pandemic lockdowns shifted the taken-for-granted architecture of meetings across many contexts around the world, from the presumptive in-person meeting with bodies in a single space to the presumed virtual meeting with many faces, on many screens, in many physical spaces and time zones. What did this "zoomiverse" shift mean for our ways of making organization, maki…
Computer Science (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Political science (5 works) · Business (4 works) · Public relations (4 works) · Economics (3 works) · Engineering (3 works) · Marketing (3 works) · Set (abstract data type (3 works) · Anthropology (2 works)