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The Eternal Return
eBook - Reproduction and Change in Complex Activity System - The Case of Salmon Enhancement
ISBN/EAN: 9783865416766
Umbreit-Nr.: 7825967
Sprache:
Englisch
Umfang: 0 S.
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Keine Angabe
Erschienen am 29.09.2008
Auflage: 1/2008
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Format: PDF
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- Zusatztext
- Cultural-historical activity theory frequently is used as a framework for studying static situations statically. In this book, the authors implement Lev Vygotskys call for doing unit rather than element analysis by studying activity dynamically, across different spatial and temporal scales. The eternal return, that is, the continual production of change while reproducing the system, is taken as the central metaphor for a system that produces self-movement. A case study is provided of salmon enhancement in British Columbia (Canada), linking the 120-year cultural history of this activity, with the 30-year evolution of a fish hatchery that concretely constitutes the system in one of the possible ways, and the knowing and learning of individual fish culturists, which is analyzed at the time scales of five years down to the micro-evolution of individual conversations. Most importantly, the authors implement Vygotskys call for theorizing affect and emotion at the very heart of the activity system, showing how the eternal return allows us to under-stand the change of worker involvement and identification with the goals of their workplace.