Sub-theme 06: (SWG) Love and hate: Forms of attachment to the objects of work

Convenors:
Paolo Landri, National Research Council of Italy and University of Naples, Italy
Bente Elkjaer, School of Education, Aarhus University, Denmark
Silvia Gherardi, Università di Trento, Italy
Session I: Thursday, July 02, 09:00 to 10:30, E3-A-A019
Practice, practitioners and attachment to the object of practice
Chair: Silvia Gherardi
A Passion for Scholarship
Discussant(s)Discussant(s): Bente Elkjaer
Session II: Thursday, July 02, 11:00 to 12:30, E3-A-A019
The dynamics of attachment and detachment
Chair: Lars Fuglsang
Passionate Attachments at Work
Discussant(s)Discussant(s): Matthew J. Brannan
Passion and the gift of excess
Discussant(s)Discussant(s): Johann Packendorff
(Dis)Passionate Desire: Crafting "Professional" Massage Therapy
Discussant(s)Discussant(s): Monica Lindgren
Session III: Thursday, July 02, 14:00 to 15:30, E3-A-A019
Projectification, love and hate
Chair: Eric Axel
Monica Lindgren and Johann Packendorff
Love, hate and projects: On passion, obsession and depression in project-based work
Discussant(s)Discussant(s): Mario Marcolin
Christine Räisänen, Sven Gunnarson and Max Rapp Ricciardi
Passion as a substitute for formal education in knowing and learning processes
Discussant(s)Discussant(s): Christian Gebhardt
Session IV: Friday, July 03, 09:00 to 10:30, E3-A-A019
The dark side of attachment
Chair: Ann Cunliffe
“You’re not going anywhere” Employee Retention, Symbolic Violence and the Structuring of Subordination in a UK-based Call Centre
Discussant(s)Discussant(s): Pyers Myers
SOCIAL IDENTITY AND IDENTIFICATION : OBSESSION AND CONSEQUENCES
Discussant(s)Discussant(s): Abigail Marks
Falling Forwad: Passion, Failure and self-Identity
Discussant(s)Discussant(s): Hanna Timonen
Session V: Friday, July 03, 11:00 to 12:30, E3-A-A019
Passion, hate and the new technologies of information and communication
Chair: Kate Sullivan
The introduction of informatics in a public social assistance service practice. How does it deal with emotions?
Discussant(s)Discussant(s): Eric Axel
Katarzyna Kosmala
Interpassive self at work: Transgressing decentrement and following desires in the virtual realm
Discussant(s)Discussant(s): Ann Cunliffe
Stephan Kaiser and Gordon Müller-Seitz
Opening the Black Box ‘Internet’ – A Refinement of Sociological Systems Theory by Analyzing how Wikipedia Unfolds its Inherent Paradoxes
Discussant(s)Discussant(s): Paolo Landri
Session VI: Saturday, July 04, 09:00 to 10:30, E3-A-A019
Emotions, discourse and practices of attachment
Chair: Matthew J. Brannan
The ambivalence of attachment: The role of emotion-regulating processes in professional practice
Discussant(s)Discussant(s): Lars Fuglsang
Lars Fuglsang
Motivation at Work, the Complexity of Attachments to the Objects at Work
Session VII: Saturday, July 04, 11:00 to 12:30, E3-A-A019
Love, Hate and Change
Chair: Kate Kenny
Zoe Morrison
Military Attachment and Identity: The Passion of Knowing
Discussant(s)Discussant(s): Emma Jeanes
Situated Emotion and Organizational Change (*** paper removed at author's request ***)
Discussant(s)Discussant(s): Kate Sullivan