Download or read book Casing a Promised Land Expanded Edition written by H. L. Goodall and published by SIU Press. This book was released on 1994-07-27 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now available for the first time in paperback and expanded by a new chapter and an afterword entitled "'Surrendering to the Mystery, ' or The Sooner You Arrive, the Further You Have to Go", this ground-breaking study by H. L. Goodall, Jr., examines what happens when a communication scholar ventures out of academia into the community workplace. Using the techniques of social science and literary journalism, Goodall reveals the tensions between order and creativity in the real world and how these tensions place him into a crisis of interpretation. "Becoming an Organizational Detective", the first chapter is a brief autobiographical sketch of how Goodall moved from the role of cultural outsider to that of cultural insider within the high-technology texts and contexts of Huntsville, Alabama. Against this backdrop, he explores the lives led by people within organizations against the backdrop of his own "many-storied story". Through the use of an interpretive field method, cultural ethnography, Goodall utilizes these "many-storied stories" to provide a richer, deeper sense of the experience of a researcher observing and interpreting organizational lives. His stories take on the form of six detective mysteries in which the narrator figures into the plot of the intrigue and then works out its essential patterns. In the first mystery, "Notes on a Cultural Evolution: The Remaking of a Software Company", Goodall looks at the transition of the Huntsville regional office of a Boston-based computer software company where the lives and social dramas of the participants reflect the current state of high technology, a blend of fantasy and stress stemming from that fantasy, that mingle with his own. In"The Way the World Ends: Inside Star Wars", Goodall penetrates the various defenses of the Star Wars command office in Huntsville to discover its secrets and surprises. "Lost in Space: The Layers of Illusion Called Adult Space Camp" illustrates how a supposedly "innocent" theme park invites participation in rituals and ceremonies designed to influence a future generation of taxpayers. In "Articles of Faith", Goodall enters a super mall in Huntsville, noting how shopping centers provide consumers and narrators with far more than places to purchase goods and services. "How I Spent My Summer Vacation" finds Goodall back in a conference of communication scholars where he demonstrates the difficult task of translating cultural understandings from one context to another through the telling of his own tale. In "The Consultant as Organizational Detective", Goodall works within a context of intrigue and deceit worthy of Raymond Chandler as he evaluates relationships of power and authority within a privately held company whose owner has targeted a contentious manager for removal, preferably through voluntary resignation, and dupes Goodall into the general deception. In the final chapter, Goodall shares how his study fits into, or rubs against, the grain of contemporary communication scholarship and offers unusual advice for others who may be considering making "the interpretive turn".
Download or read book Casing a Promised Land Expanded Edition written by H. L. Goodall and published by SIU Press. This book was released on 1994-07-27 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: H. L. Goodall’s ground-breaking study of what people do with symbols and what symbols do to people explores the lives led by people in organizations. His narratives take on the form of six detective mysteries in which the narrator figures into the plot of the intrigue and then works out its essential patterns. In the first mystery, "Notes on a Cultural Evolution: The Remaking of a Software Company," Goodall looks at the transition of a Huntsville regional office of a Boston-based computer software company where the lives and social dramas of the participants reflect the current state of high technology. The second essay and perhaps the most insightful, "The Way the World Ends: Inside Star Wars," penetrates the various defenses of the Star Wars command office in Huntsville to discover its secrets and surprises. Goodall shows how media, technology, fear of relationships, and symbolic images of the future unite into the day-to-day operations of people who believe they are responsible for the outer limits of our nation’s defense. "Lost in Space: The Layers of Illusion Called Adult Space Camp" illustrates how a supposedly innocent theme park invites participation in rituals and ceremonies designed to influence a future generation of taxpayers. In "Articles of Faith," Goodall enters a super mall in Huntsville, noting how shopping centers provide consumers with far more than places to purchase goods and services. "How I Spent My Summer Vacation" finds Goodall back in an academic environment, at a conference of communication scholars, where he demonstrates the difficult task of translating cultural understandings from one context to another. "The Consultant as Organizational Detective" offers the sobering message that real-life mysteries may surprise even the most accomplished sleuth. A concluding chapter, "Notes on Method," and a new autobiographical afterword round out Goodall’s penetrating look at our symbol-making culture.
Download or read book Writing the New Ethnography written by H. Lloyd Goodall and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2000 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text provides a foundational understanding of the writing process associated with innovative forms of ethnographic writing. It offers advice, examples, and exercises for every step in the ethnographic writng process, including field observations, notes, narrative development, and editing.
Download or read book Divine Signs written by H. Lloyd Goodall and published by SIU Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Divine Signs is the concluding volume of the ethnographic trilogy about the communicative tensions in everyday American cultural life H. L. Goodall, Jr., began with Casing a Promised Land and continued with Living in the Rock n Roll Mystery. In this final work, the terms for understanding these tensions are found in a historical and mythological drama featuring Power (as the embodiment of the modern), Other (as the embodiment of the postmodern), and Spirit (as the unifying power capable of connecting disparate selves to dangerously fragmented communities). For this study, the localized site of interpretation is in and around Pickens and Oconee Counties, South Carolina, where every day street signs, business advertisements on billboards, signs that announce church themes, Internet postings, and other forms of public communication that invite private meanings are read as rhetorical invitations to participate in these myths and mysteries. Using themes discoverable in such public forms of communication, Goodall deconstructs a variety of communal experiences--from annual community celebrations to weekly therapy sessions in local beauty salons to the fall audience rituals of Clemson University football games--to gain a deeper appreciation of the unifying symbolic orders that enrich the interpretive possibilities of our lives and that serve as signs of our deeply spiritual connections to each other and to the planet. In the last sections of the book, the interplays of Power, Other, and Spirit are read into and against a wide variety of everyday interpretive contexts, from Rush Limbaugh and talk radio to narratives about angels and stories about the transformative powers of spiritual practices in organizations. Goodall then asks the important question: Where are the themes of this mythological drama leading us? In the stunning conclusion, Goodall creates communicative, cultural, and spiritual challenges for us all.
Download or read book US Public Memory Rhetoric and the National Mall written by Roger C. Aden and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2018-04-26 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: US Public Memory, Rhetoric, and the National Mall examines “the nation’s front yard,” understanding it as both a public face the United States presents to the world and a site where its less apparent moral story is told. This book provides a uniquely thorough, interdisciplinary, and integrated examination of how the National Mall shares a moral story of the United States and, in so doing, reveals the soul of the nation. The contributors explore 11 different memorials, monuments, and museums found across the Mall, considering how each rhetorically remembers a key element of the nation’s past, what the rhetorical memory tells us about the nation’s soul, and how each site must thus be understood in relation to the commemorative landscape of the Mall.
Download or read book The Paradox of Empowerment written by Ronald F. Wendt and published by Praeger. This book was released on 2001-04-30 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wendt provides a collection of critical stories examining the power and politics of organizational life. He looks at workers in frustrating situations and explores a new type of power that is simultaneously beneficial and detrimental. The talk, language, and discourse that constitute the micro-paradoxes of work life are investigated. Starting with the concept of corporate hegemony, Wendt looks at its language, provides stories illustrating hegemony, and helps the reader envision how hegemony carries over to other social realms like higher education. After exploring the possibility of counter-hegemonic resistance, including tactical storytelling, Wendt sets forth a new theory of suspended power. While he shows there is no clear answer or response to the politics of corporate hegemony because it is a persistent dilemma, he points the reader to the uses of critical theory to understand and adjust to contemporary power dynamics. Of particular interest to scholars and students involved with communication, management, and cultural studies.
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