Unlocking the geographies of the Mind Gym
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2402292 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Adrian Smith (0000-0001-8027-712X, University of Wales, Aberystwyth, UK,, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2007 |
| Volume | 8 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 425-444 |
| Publication date | 2007-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Ethnography (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1466-1381 • E-ISSN: 1741-2714 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/1466138107083560 |
| OpenAlex | W2154565086 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 26 |
This article engages with a number of literatures regarding ethnography as a tool for researching management training, considered as a key component of `new capitalism'. Put briefly, new capitalism as an object of academic inquiry, as well as an emergent epistemology within management training literature, seeks to embed the economic within a series of discursive and embodied practices, such that money systems, labour regulations and so on are exposed as fully relational, and hence contingent and changeable phenomena. Thus far, however, micro-scale academic analyses of the economic have lagged behind studies of broader scale relations and practices that seek to outline an emerging, self-reflexive epoch within capitalism. This article attempts to use ethnography to attune this literature to the micro-spatialities of new capitalism, illuminated by fieldwork with the Mind Gym
Capitalism · Embodied cognition · Epistemology · Ethnography · Object (grammar · Organization studies · Political science · Politics · Reflexivity · Scale (ratio · Social science · Sociology · Anthropology · Computer Science · Labor Movements and Unions · Management and Organizational Studies
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| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |