Hybrids, identity and knowledge boundaries

Creative artists between academic and practitioner communities

Dados Bibliográficos

ID9890827
AutoresA Lam (0000-0002-8950-6838, Royal Holloway University of London, autor correspondente)
Ano2020
Volume73
Fascículo6
Páginas837-863
Data de publicação2020-06-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoHuman Relations (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0018-7267 • E-ISSN: 1741-282X
EditoraSAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/0018726719846259
OpenAlexW2943694752
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas14
Referências citadas70

Hybrid people can be riven by identity conflicts and yet be profoundly disruptive of social boundaries. How can we understand these two facets of hybridity? This study examines how internal identity conflict resolution is related to external boundary disruption by focusing on the identity work of individuals who cross professional knowledge boundaries. It looks at artist-academic hybrids who operate at the interface between the academic and art worlds. The analysis shows the dynamic interplay between their hybrid identity work and knowledge boundary work. It distinguishes three categories of hybrids (‘Janusian’, ‘ambivalent’ and ‘asymmetric’) whose varied identity work strategies (‘integrative’, ‘multiplex’ and ‘buffering’) disrupt knowledge boundaries in different ways (‘blurring’, ‘transgressing’ and ‘brokering’). The study sheds light on the varied nature of hybrids and the mutually constitutive nature of their internal and external identity work. It advances our understanding of identity work as an agentic activity and reveals the identity processes underlying the disruption of knowledge boundaries

Aesthetics · Ambivalence · Boundary-work · Epistemology · Hybridity · Identity (music · Identity formation · Self-concept · Social science · Sociology · Anthropology · Creativity in Education and Neuroscience · Cultural Industries and Urban Development · Psychology · Social and Cultural Dynamics · Social Psychology