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9780230228207

Power at Play The Relationships between Play, Work and Governance

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  • ISBN13:

    9780230228207

  • ISBN10:

    0230228208

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2009-05-15
  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

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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 Tablesp. vii
Acknowledgementsp. ix
Introductionp. 1
Second-order Observationp. 12
Communicationp. 14
The Semantic History of Management Gamesp. 19
Introductionp. 19
The semantics of competition and recordsp. 22
The semantics of training and simulation gamesp. 31
The semantics of making the world appear through playp. 43
Conclusionp. 68
The Organization at Playp. 71
Introductionp. 71
Play as formp. 75
Decision as formp. 81
Can decisions be playful?p. 85
Conclusion: deconstructive integrationp. 91
Political Play with Boundariesp. 93
Introductionp. 93
The Voluntary organization/voluntary member boundaryp. 101
The school/family boundaryp. 111
The individual/community boundaryp. 123
The state/school/family boundaryp. 125
Conclusionp. 133
The Coupling of Play, Power and Pedagogyp. 137
Introductionp. 137
Power as formp. 138
Pedagogy as formp. 141
Couplings: playing oneself into powerp. 144
Conclusion: the invisibility and self-suspension of powerp. 156
Conclusion: Power at Playp. 159
Bibliographyp. 168
Indexp. 179
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