Open Typology Research Articles

Organisational ethnography as a project of unease

PurposeThe article examines situations of unease during ethnographic fieldwork with migration control agents in Sweden, Denmark and Germany. It shows how these “tests” are both methodologically challenging and analytically valuable, and how they need to be addressed properly. The article concludes a special issue on “passing the test in organisational ethnography”.Design/methodology/approachThe article is based on ethnographic research with migration control agents, carried out by both authors in Denmark and Sweden (Annika) and Germany (Tobias). However, rather than presenting the main results from this research, the article focuses on the tests encountered during the research.FindingsThe article has two main findings. First, it provides an open typology of tests. Second, it proposes four ways in which ethnographers could address these tests: acknowledging them methodologically, working through them personally and collectively, unpacking them analytically and preparing others in teaching and peer-feedback.Research limitations/implicationsThe article encourages ethnographers to engage reflexively with fieldwork challenges, and provides a framework for doing so.Originality/valueThe article presents contributes to the current debate on organisational ethnography with recommendations of how to engage with tests in ethnographic fieldwork.

‘The Open Typology’: Towards Socially Sustainable Architectural and Care Types

One aspect that characterises the twenty-first century is its accomplishments such as better health-care systems, improved economies, a reduction in infant mortality and a growing number of adults living longer. However, these accomplishments can have a downside. For example, people are living longer while at the same time dementia rates are increasing significantly. With the increase in demand for high-dependency-related services, while at the same time costs are spiralling possibly out of control of societal budgets, there is a need for a shift in the care model. Additionally, difficulties in defining a clear dividing line between normal ageing and pathological ageing have led to a stigmatisation of older adults as a social and economic burden. This type of segregation and stigmatisation must be addressed to ensure future care delivery is inclusive. The positive benefits of an inclusive care system are both social and economic, and at an individual level it can positively impact upon an older adult’s mental and physical well-being. Taking this into consideration, the aim of this paper is to describe and empirically explore Humanitas© in Deventer, the Netherlands, a nursing home with a population of 50 older adults with dementia, 80 people with severe physical suffering, 20 people with social difficulties, 10 people in short stay for recovery and 6 university students. This analysis will be adopted as a ‘tool’ for the definition of a new way of conceiving architectural types in contemporary culture, based on the concept of an ‘open system’ described by Richard Sennett. In this study, an open system is able to promote a new paradigm of care built upon inclusive collaboration and teamwork between different categories of health-care providers, volunteers, residents and their families. This will allow an alternative paradigm of older adults’ long-term care and its architectural correlate to ‘normalise’ ageing and its related mental and physical impairments, rather than to ‘medicalise’ and stigmatise.

“Open Typology” as Heterotopia: A Comparative Analysis between Gojikara Mura in Nagakute (Japan) and Humanitas in Deventer (Netherlands)

“Open Typology” as Heterotopia: A Comparative Analysis between Gojikara Mura in Nagakute (Japan) and Humanitas in Deventer (Netherlands)

ANÁLISE DA EFICIÊNCIA DE RESFRIAMENTO DE PAINÉIS POROSOS PREENCHIDOS COM ARGILA EXPANDIDA EM COMPARAÇÃO AOS DE CELULOSE USANDO TÚNEL DE VENTO

Altas temperaturas do ar, associadass à tipologia aberta e sem isolamento térmico dos alojamentos para animais ainda
 constituem grave problema para seu desempenho produtivo. Neste sentido, os sistemas de acondicionamento de
 ambientes usuais nas atividades de produção animal brasileira geralmente fazem uso de processos de resfriamento
 adiabático evaporativo do ar, utilizando painéis de material poroso umedecido, associado aos sistemas de ventilação em modo túnel. Diante do exposto, este trabalho teve como objetivo comparar a eficiência de placas porosas em argila expandida (cinasita) em relação às do painel de celulose (testemunha) para todas as condições de temperaturas e velocidades das correntes de ar. Foram usados painéis em três espessuras (6 cm, 8,5 cm e 10 cm) e em duas granulometrias, denominadas de granulometria 1 (referência à brita 1) e granulometria 2 (referência à brita 2). Os resultados obtidos foram interpretados com testes de hipóteses de duas médias. Foram encontrados melhores valores de eficiência para os painéis em granulometria 1 em relação à granulometria 2. Também foi verificado bom desempenho para o painel evaporativo de 10 cm de espessura quando a granulometria da argila era a 2.

THE TYPES OF INTERTEXTEMES IN LATGALIAN DRAMA

THE TYPES OF INTERTEXTEMES IN LATGALIAN DRAMA

Note per una tipologia dei balsamari romani a fondo piatto

This paper refers to the flat-bottomed production of Roman age ceramic vases expressly made to contain perfumes. Starting from morphological associations a first effort at an open typology is presented. Considering the typological aspect, it is not easy for the time being to define a complete line of evolution in shapes and diffusion; what is certain though is that perfume vases seem to be of local production and diffusion and, with rare exceptions, do not seem to be goods for a long distance trade.

Reflections on Stein Rokkan's Conceptual Map of Europe*

Among the leading scholars studying nation‐building and national development Stein Rokkan (1921–1979) has had an unique position because of his ability to combine different approaches, to focus on both the general and the unique, and to use both quantitative measurement and qualitative data. Among his most enduring and original contributions is his conceptual map of Europe. It is an elaborate but in principle open typology or system of classification accounting for the main principles of geopolitical differentiation in Western Europe. Despite its theoretical character it clearly shows the spatial order and structure in the development of national states in Europe. This paper analyses both the content of the main dimensions in Rokkan's conceptual map and its nature as a heuristic frame of reference and large‐scale research program. References are made to the recent ethnic revival which seems to be hard to explain and understand without considering many distinctions and concepts presented in Rokkan's conceptual map.