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Temporality and firm de-internationalization : Three historical approaches

2022

This paper contributes to process-oriented international business research by showing how three distinct historical approaches can enrich theoretical understanding concerning temporality in firm de-internationalization. First, we show how comparative historical analysis unleashes the causal structure of the process and provides explanatory understanding of the temporal grounding of the mechanisms driving the process. Second, we explicate how interpretive history reveals the embeddedness of de-internationalization in the prevailing spirit of the time. Finally, we consider how poststructuralist history enables us to focus on the strong subjectivity of individuals in which multiple temporaliti…

Invisible streams : Process-thinking in Arendt

2016

For Hannah Arendt, some of the most distinctive features of the modern age derived from the adoption of a process-imaginary in science, history, and administration. This article examines Arendt’s work, identifying what it calls the ‘process-frame’ in her criticism of imperialism, economy, and the biologization of politics. It discusses an interpretation in which ‘natality’ presents a completely alternative mode of temporality, a resistance to the process-frame. This interpretation, it is argued, needs to be specified by taking into account that political action both interrupts and starts processes of its own. To confine and overcome the negative effects of process-framing, it is important t…

Introduction: Time and Spatial and Social Turns in Architectural Research

2018

Group‐based instant messaging in Finnish residential elder care work : taming the technology or vice versa?

2022

As new communication technologies become embedded in care work, there is a need to understand how they affect its temporal order. This article analyses group-based mobile instant messaging (IM) in residential elder care work in Finland. The article asks (i) how care workers use group-based messaging for work; and (ii) how they negotiate the rules for its use. Theoretically, the article draws on science and technology studies focusing on ‘taming’ and ‘unleashing’ (Pols, 2017), and temporality (Wajcman, 2008). Analysis is based on a qualitative interview study of care workers and nurses (n = 25) conducted in 2018. The results showed how the time-shifting functionality of IM allows employees t…

Lineaarisuus ja vertikaalisuus Terry Rileyn sävellyksessä In C

2016

Tutkimuksessa perehdyttiin lineaarisuuteen ja vertikaalisuuteen Terry Rileyn sävellyksessä In C. Lineaarisuus ja vertikaalisuus ovat temporaalisuuden eri muotoja. Terry Rileyn In C on amerikkalaisen minimalistisen musiikin klassikkoteos, jonka temporaalisuutta ei ole aiemmin tutkittu. Koska minimalistisen musiikin suhde temporaalisuuteen on ainutlaatuinen suhteessa mihin tahansa muuhun länsimaiseen musiikkityyliin, tulisi sen klassikkoteosta tutkia erityisesti temporaalisuuden kautta. Tutkimuksen tavoitteena oli tuottaa uutta tietoa In C:n temporaalisuuksista. Tutkimuskysymykseni ovat: Millaisten musiikillisten seikkojen varaan lineaarisuus ja vertikaalisuus tässä teoksessa rakentuvat?…

Ajan partaalla : omaelämäkerrallinen aika, päiväkirja ja muistin kulttuuri

2011

Päiväkirjan kirjoittaja katsoo sekä menneeseen että tulevaan arvioidessaan elämänsä laatua ja kulkua. Mennyt on saatavilla sivuja taaksepäin selaamalla ja tuleva muistuttaa itsestään seuraavan sivun tyhjinä riveinä. Kirjoituksen aineksina ovat tulevaa koskevat odotukset ja menneisyyttä rakentavat kokemukset sekä niiden väliin avautuvat päivittäiset tapahtumat ja kirjoittamisen hetki. Tässä tutkimuksessa syvennytään omaelämäkerrallisten tekstien, erityisesti päiväkirjojen, tapaan hahmottaa aikaa. Aineistona ovat kolmen naisen vuosina 1927–1989 kirjoitetut päiväkirjat. Päiväkirjojen aikaa tarkastellaan sekä filosofisesti ja kerronnallisesti että suhteessa ajan kulttuurisiin ulottuvuuksiin ja …

Narratiivisuus ja päiväkirjan aika : sukupuoli, temporaalisuus ja kulttuurin muutos päiväkirjan omaelämäkerrallisissa diskursseissa

2009

University Students’ Approaches to Making the Most of Their Study Time

2022

This article explores university students’ approaches to and positions with regard to making the most of their study time. The article discusses how various normative societal expectations around students’ use and management of time feature in their talk about how they organise their everyday lives. The research is based on thematic interviews (n = 28) that focused in detail on students’ day-to-day activities that were generated with students from two sets of generalist study fields in three regional Finnish universities. The results of a discursive analysis of students’ positionings reveal three discursive positions that represent of a variety in students’ approaches to make sense of the t…

Do We Need Real-Time Hermeneutics? Structures of Meaning in Games

2011

Games differ from most other forms of media by being procedural and interactive. These qualities change how games create and transmit meaning to their players. The concept of “real-time hermeneutics” (Aarseth 2003) is analysed in order to understand how temporality affects the understanding of games. Temporal frames (Zagal and Mateas 2010) are introduced as an alternative way of understanding time in games. peerReviewed

Anticipation as Platform Power : The Temporal Structuring of Digital Everyday Life

2023

This article explores anticipation as a temporal structure in digital platforms. It contributes to the growing research of platformisation of everyday life by focusing on temporality as a central dimension of platform power, a key mechanism tying participants by structuring intimacies, socialities, and relations that platforms enable and engender. The article shows how the temporality of foreboding, prospecting and speculating about one’s own and other’s social media presence and actions permeates the user experience. Studying media diaries and interviews with participants from different social and occupational groups (politicians, actors, the unemployed, undocumented migrants), the article…