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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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