Assemblage of art, discourse and ice hockey

Designing knowledge about work

Bibliographic Data

ID3609786
AuthorsSari Pietikäinen (0000-0001-7381-760X, University of Jyväskylä Jyväskyä Finland, corresponding author)
Year2022
Volume26
Issue5
Pages553-567
Publication date2022-11-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Sociolinguistics (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1360-6441 • E-ISSN: 1467-9841
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/josl.12470
OpenAlexW3157187470
LanguageEN
Citations received8
References cited24

This article examines speculative design's capacity to co-produce knowledge about contradictions and potentialities of work in professional ice hockey. Building on the Deleuzian concept of assemblage, speculative design has been used for two purposes: (a) to bring together the perspectives of art, anthropology, discourse studies, and professional sports in co-constructing knowledge about hockey work; and (b) to analyze and present the key findings of an ethnography on hockey work through an art exhibition of speculative hockey memorabilia. As such, these art pieces showed the intertwined relationships of material, discursive, and affective aspects in hockey work as well as the multiplicity of aspirations, challenges, investments, and risks that go into this kind of mobile, unpredictable work. The design process also showed how knowledge production is an emergent process of exchange, dependent on interactions and relationships, and embedded in power relations

Archaeology · Assemblage (archaeology · Ethnography · Ice hockey · Sociology · Work (physics · Anthropology · Artistic and Creative Research · Engineering · History · Sport and Mega-Event Impacts · Sports, Gender, and Society

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