The turn to practice has been prominent in the community of Management Learning and still occupies an important place in the debate that approaches practice from the standpoint of learning and knowing. On considering how the turn to practice contributes to the ongoing conversation on post-epistemologies, one notes a convergence with another ‘turn’. The turn to affect started more or less in the same years as the turn to practice, but the conversation between the two has not yet been fully articulated. I argue that both share a concern for (1) a relational epistemology, (2) the body and (3) sociomateriality. To show how they may interact, three vignettes are presented to illustrate their commonalities and how they try to produce in the reader an affective reaction. This article is also the outcome of an experimentation conducted with a visual writer during the Organizational Learning, Knowledge and Capabilities conference in Milan, and it proposes a reflection on the limits of representationalism.

One turn.......and now another one. Do the turn to practice and the turn to affect have something in common? / Gherardi, S.. - In: ACADEMY OF MANAGEMENT LEARNING & EDUCATION. - ISSN 1944-9585. - STAMPA. - 2017:48(3)(2017), pp. 345-358.

One turn.......and now another one. Do the turn to practice and the turn to affect have something in common?

Gherardi, S.
2017-01-01

Abstract

The turn to practice has been prominent in the community of Management Learning and still occupies an important place in the debate that approaches practice from the standpoint of learning and knowing. On considering how the turn to practice contributes to the ongoing conversation on post-epistemologies, one notes a convergence with another ‘turn’. The turn to affect started more or less in the same years as the turn to practice, but the conversation between the two has not yet been fully articulated. I argue that both share a concern for (1) a relational epistemology, (2) the body and (3) sociomateriality. To show how they may interact, three vignettes are presented to illustrate their commonalities and how they try to produce in the reader an affective reaction. This article is also the outcome of an experimentation conducted with a visual writer during the Organizational Learning, Knowledge and Capabilities conference in Milan, and it proposes a reflection on the limits of representationalism.
2017
48(3)
Gherardi, S.
One turn.......and now another one. Do the turn to practice and the turn to affect have something in common? / Gherardi, S.. - In: ACADEMY OF MANAGEMENT LEARNING & EDUCATION. - ISSN 1944-9585. - STAMPA. - 2017:48(3)(2017), pp. 345-358.
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