Power at Play The Relationships between Play, Work and Governance

by Andersen, Niels Akerstrom

• ISBN13: 9780230228207
• ISBN10: 0230228208
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-05-15
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

More and more adults participate as employees in games at work and in public and voluntary organizations. Power at play covers the intricate linkages between pedagogy, play and power. It shows how power today suspends itself through play and analyzes organized play as a symptom of more radical changes of the exercise of power in work and society.

Author Biography

NIELS KERSTRM ANDERSEN is Professor and Research Manager at Department of Management, Politics and Philosophy, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark. He works with systems theory, deconstruction, conceptual history and discourse analysis empirical embedded in welfare management. He has published 11 books and 40 articles.

Table of Contents

List of Figures and Tables	p. vii
Acknowledgements	p. ix
Introduction	p. 1
Second-order Observation	p. 12
Communication	p. 14
The Semantic History of Management Games	p. 19
Introduction	p. 19
The semantics of competition and records	p. 22
The semantics of training and simulation games	p. 31
The semantics of making the world appear through play	p. 43
Conclusion	p. 68
The Organization at Play	p. 71
Introduction	p. 71
Play as form	p. 75
Decision as form	p. 81
Can decisions be playful?	p. 85
Conclusion: deconstructive integration	p. 91
Political Play with Boundaries	p. 93
Introduction	p. 93
The Voluntary organization/voluntary member boundary	p. 101
The school/family boundary	p. 111
The individual/community boundary	p. 123
The state/school/family boundary	p. 125
Conclusion	p. 133
The Coupling of Play, Power and Pedagogy	p. 137
Introduction	p. 137
Power as form	p. 138
Pedagogy as form	p. 141
Couplings: playing oneself into power	p. 144
Conclusion: the invisibility and self-suspension of power	p. 156
Conclusion: Power at Play	p. 159
Bibliography	p. 168
Index	p. 179
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