Invisibility and Visibility in Alternative Organizing: A Communicative and Cultural Model
Invisibility and Visibility in Alternative Organizing: A Communicative and Cultural Model
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另类组织中的隐性和可见性：沟通和文化模型
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2017
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Joëlle M. Cruz
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Joëlle M. Cruz
本研究透过文化的透镜，重新探讨组织传播学对隐形与可见性的研究。从西方为中心的方法出发，我部署非洲女权主义研究组织成员如何在不同的文化逻辑和背景下沟通协商的无形性和可见性。我专注于市场妇女的susu组-基层组织-在冲突后的利比里亚，西非。我在利比里亚的蒙罗维亚进行了100小时的参与观察和40次与susu小组成员的访谈。我发现了一个文化交际情境模型。在微观层面上，该模型揭示了三个情境维度--时间维度、关系维度和结构维度--这些维度塑造了组织成员如何协商隐形性和可见性。在宏观层面上，该模型有助于文化和组织方面的新兴工作。总之，这项研究移动过去的理解文化作为一个因素来考虑潜在的假设，塑造我们如何概念化的沟通过程，在这里的无形性和可见性。
This study reengages organizational communication scholarship on invisibility and visibility through a cultural lens. Departing from Western-centered approaches, I deploy African feminisms to examine how organizational members communicatively negotiate invisibility and visibility in a different cultural logic and context. I focus on market women’s susu groups—grassroots organizations—in postconflict Liberia, West Africa. I conducted 100 hr of participant observation and 40 interviews with susu group members in Monrovia, Liberia. I unearth a communicative situational model to culture. At a micro-level, the model uncovers three situational dimensions—temporal, relational, and structural—that shape how organizational members negotiate invisibility and visibility. At a macro-level, the model contributes to emerging work on culture and organizing. In conclusion, the study moves past understandings of culture as a factor to consider underlying assumptions shaping how we conceptualize communicative processes, here invisibility and visibility.