Practices Of Bricolage Research Articles

Integrating local knowledge for inclusive blue economy: opportunity and challenge of institutional bricolage

ABSTRACT Employing the social aspect into the blue economy is crucial to ensure equity for communities whose livelihoods are intertwined with the ocean. One way to achieve this is by integrating local knowledge into management practices. Unfortunately, information regarding the mechanisms that influence the effectiveness of this integration remains underexplored, particularly in terms of empirical field-based evidence.. This research adopts a qualitative approach that emphasizes the exploration of case studies on the integration of local knowledge through institutional bricolage. Papadak/Hoholok is one example of this practice. We argue that institutional bricolage practices emerging from external parties are determined by the functioning of change enablers and the appropriate implementation of co-management. The research findings indicate that local knowledge struggles to function effectively due to a lack of resources and commitment from the involved parties. External parties seem more interested in the initiation process rather than collaborating over the long term to ensure the successful integration of local knowledge into management practices. Hence, the long-term commitment of involved parties should be a focal point for similar practices in the upcoming times.

Bricolage – a systematic review, conceptualization, and research agenda

ABSTRACT The practice of bricolage, predominantly regarded as a strategy for innovation and overcoming constraints in resource-scarce environments, has garnered increased scholarly attention in recent years. This paper aims to consolidate the fragmented field by conducting a literature review of bricolage-focused research, offering an integrated perspective based on prior contributions. This serves to conceptualize and advance theory building on the subject, while simultaneously pinpointing gaps in the literature and proposing a roadmap for future research. A systematic literature review of 126 articles was carried out, utilizing the Web of Science as the primary data source. The focus was on clarifying the concept and its subtypes and examining common themes in existing literature to establish a cohesive conceptualization of bricolage. The primary finding is the conceptualization of a multi-level framework encompassing the who-when-how-what dimensions of bricolage, which can serve as a foundation for future research. Furthermore, we consolidate and present bricolage subtypes while questioning their utility in research and practice. Additionally, we analyse research trends over time and summarize the ongoing practical and conceptual discourse aimed at distinguishing bricolage from related, overlapping concepts. Finally, we provide recommendations for future research, facilitating the continued growth of the bricolage field in a harmonious manner.

Bricolage practices in developing applied educational tools: a comparative study of value-based entrepreneurship across emerging markets

Bricolage practices in developing applied educational tools: a comparative study of value-based entrepreneurship across emerging markets

Institutional hybrids through meso-level bricolage: The governance of formal property in urban Tanzania

Drawing on a case-study from Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, we explore who governs formal property in African cities, how they make formal property legitimate and functional, and the consequences of these processes. Through the analytic lenses of institutional hybridity and ‘meso-level’ bricolage, we study the implementation of the Residential Licence programme, which offered a relatively affordable interim property right to the urban poor. We illustrate that formal property is constructed and managed by a hybrid governance of actors within and at the interface of the state – municipalities and community leaders. Some eighteen years after the programme began, the mtaa chairperson – an unpaid political figure and community representative, typically associated with informal land institutions – is still central to the governance of formal property. Both municipalities and mtaa chairpersons engage in practices of bricolage, which transform the RL into a hybrid institution, anchored to both existing and newly proposed sources of authority and knowledge on property relations. On one side, these practices lend legitimacy and functionality to the ‘new’ property right system. On the other, they open up grey areas for discretion and power relations. Therefore, we argue that this hybrid governance be supported by the state through adequate resources and political support. By offering a rare analysis of institutional bricolage within and at the interface of the state, our findings are important to advance current understandings on land reform implementation, land governance and land institutions in African cities.

The Flip-flop Toys of Saarenald T. S. Yaawaisan in the Bryn Mawr Art and Artifact Collections

The Flip-flop Toys of Saarenald T. S. Yaawaisan in the Bryn Mawr Art and Artifact Collections

Pragmatism in practice: Bricolage as a methodological framework for SoTL

I begin this paper by discussing some of the issues that scholars face when they begin to make the transition from discipline-based research to SoTL. I take seriously the fear that many feel when attempting to move into what they perceive to be unfamiliar territory and I encourage readers to face their own fears as a first step towards resolving them. I suggest that, although many scholars are intimidated by the thought of SoTL because they believe that it is totally alien to them, in fact they have gained skills and experience elsewhere that are transferrable into SoTL: the terminology might be unfamiliar, but the practices need not be. In order to explain this, I introduce the concept of bricolage (which, as I understand it, involves taking existing resources and repurposing them) and show how this practice can be used to develop a methodological approach to SoTL. In so doing I describe a methodology for SoTL that can be adopted and adapted by any scholar, whatever their disciplinary background, and that helps scholars to make the transition from disciplinary research to scholarship of teaching and learning. I end by giving a set of recommendations for those wanting to use bricolage for themselves, and a call for others to join me in the practice of bricolage.

Les pratiques de la veille à l’aune des pratiques informationnelles des étudiants : évolution d’une pratique « bricolée »

L’article présente les résultats d’une recherche portant sur les pratiques de veille informationnelle d’étudiants inscrits en sciences de l’information et de la communication (SIC) à l’université de Lorraine. Elle a pour objectif d’interroger leur rapport à la veille, à la fois dans la sphère académique et dans la sphère privée. Les résultats montrent que leurs pratiques de veille sont évolutives en fonction des outils étudiés pendant leur formation universitaire et de leur disponibilité en ligne. Nous interrogeons également le lien entre leurs pratiques personnelles et académiques dans le domaine de la veille.

“Resources at Hand, Head, and Heart”: ‘Heightened Habitus’ as an Endogenous Resource in Immigrant Entrepreneurial Bricolage

Abstract Bricolage is commonly recognized as a practice of non-traditional resource mobilization by immigrant entrepreneurs within their country of residence. When the host country is in an adversarial social and institutional context characterized by the liability of foreignness, we posit that accessing “resources at hand” in the external environment is hampered by anti-immigrant sentiments, both socially and institutionally. Through a rigorous analysis of eight cases of immigrant entrepreneurs and their South African-based enterprises, we apply Bourdieu’s theory of practice to examine the practice of bricolage at a more nuanced level. Our findings suggest that the localized prejudice against immigrants ‘otherizes’ their foreignness, and in turn, heightens the entrepreneurs’ awareness of their habitus. We argue that the immigrants’ ‘heightened habitus’ represents an internalization of both cognitive (i.e. resources at head) and adaptive (i.e. resources at heart) dispositions informed by the home country, and which serve as crucial endogenous resources by which to reimagine and reconstruct external resources accessed via local social capital. We present the novel theoretical contribution of immigrant entrepreneurial bricolage as the utilization of both endogenous resources at head and heart, which are activated by – and intended to overcome – their liability of foreignness. Our contribution also aims to reconstruct the frequently referenced exogenous resources at hand.

Bricolage practices in developing applied educational tools: A comparative study of value-based entrepreneurship across emerging markets

Bricolage practices in developing applied educational tools: A comparative study of value-based entrepreneurship across emerging markets

Micro-level practices of bricolage during business model innovation process: The case of digital transformation towards omni-channel retailing

This qualitative research adopts a strategy-as-practice perspective to explore the roles of micro-level practices during a business model (BM) innovation process. Using the context of omni-channel retailing for empirical analysis, this research demonstrates that the capabilities required to successfully design and implement a new BM for digital transformation fall within the capacity of managers from middle and lower management levels to develop practices of bricolage. This research demonstrates that business model innovation (BMI) does not only occur through organizational level test-and-learn processes but also relies on micro-level practices of bricolage from lower-level managers within the organization. A BMI is a process in which implementation (top-down) and emergence (bottom-up) are intertwined. Indeed, some micro-level practices of bricolage may be used by top management in the design of the new BM to improve implementation phases.

Non-Liability of “Foreignness”: Theorizing Immigrant Entrepreneurs in the Practice of Bricolage

Applying Bourdieu’s theory of practice, we theorize the non- traditional resource mobilization of immigrant entrepreneurs within the adversarial social and institutional context of their country of residence. Through a rigorous analysis of eight cases of immigrant entrepreneurs and their South African-based enterprises, our findings suggest that the habitus of immigrant entrepreneurs is a unique resource in that it represents an internalization of both cognitive and adaptive dispositions. Cognitive dispositions refer to their home-based frameworks through which their cognitive disposition is formed to interpret existing resources in novel ways. Adaptive dispositions refer to their ability to adjust and be responsive to the pressures of a new environment due to biases that perceive foreigners to be a liability. We posit that the habitus of immigrant entrepreneurship is that which embodies and applies both dispositions within even discriminatory environments in order to mobilize or construct resources via non-traditional means through local social capital. We conceptually extend this formulation to depict the practice of bricolage by immigrant entrepreneurs in an adversarial host country social field.

Matter Dialogues

This exposition relates Claude-Lévi Strauss' concept of bricolage with two examples of the author's artistic praxis, with the aim that the subjective case studies will contribute to highlight a more general methodological standpoint of contemporary artistic creation, namely: the artistic work as a dialogical, enactive process where the discussion with the artistic material takes a guiding role. The proposal intends to resituate a classic concept from structuralist anthropology, which I find strikingly useful for analysing contemporary intermedia artistic processes and works. The exposition discusses the philosophical implications of a practice that abandons itself to an unforeseen, dialogical relationship with the environment. The oeuvre then becomes an ecological process of using what is offered by the situation, in a constant discussion with the environment. Ideas, forms and materials are engendered, lost and transformed in a dynamic process that resembles a sort of artistic aikido. The ecological strand of the discussion on bricolage leads to Anna Tsing's "Mushroom at the End of the World" and Timothy Morton’s “Dark Ecology”, where the concept of Nature and the value of naturalness are abolished in favour of a flat relationship between human and her environment: an ecological system between different manifestations of being, where human-made phenomena are not regarded as extra-natural. An artistic practice of bricolage finds a favourable breeding-ground in such a conceptual context.

Bricolage as conceptual tool for understanding access to healthcare in superdiverse populations

This paper applies, for the first time, the concept of bricolage to understand the experiences of superdiverse urban populations and their practices of improvisation in accessing health services across healthcare ecosystems. By adopting the concept of healthcare bricolage and an ecosystem approach, we render visible the agency of individuals as they creatively mobilise, utilise, and re-use resources in the face of constraints on access to healthcare services. Such resources include multiple knowledges, ideas, materials, and networks. The concept of bricolage is particularly useful given that superdiverse populations are by definition heterogeneous, multilingual and transnational, and frequently in localities characterised as ‘resource-poor’, in which bricolage may be necessary to overcome such constraints, and where mainstream healthcare providers have limited understanding of the challenges that populations experience in accessing services. The ‘politics of bricolage’ as neoliberal strategies of self-empowerment legitimising the withdrawal of the welfare state are critically discussed. Conflicting aspects of bricolage are made explicit in setting out tactics of relevance to researching the practices of bricolage.

Hidden Present, Visible Absent in the City of Dreams: Assembling the Collective Imagination

This paper serves as a collaborative auto-ethnography of psychological researchers, engaged in a unique encounter with each other and with the streets, artefacts, history and ghosts of Vienna, the City of Dreams. This small international and interdisciplinary group engaged in four pre-planned exercises in this city, each geared towards developing the sensitivity of researchers to notions of embodied introspection. Participants were asked to recollect and diarise their internal dialogue and these voices were assembled according to the practice of bricolage. This paper aims to demonstrate how new forms of knowledge might be created, based on the material experience of place, and the assembling of the collective imagination of researchers. It also aims to demonstrate how this collective imagination might be written about in novel ways, with a decentred author capturing the atmosphere while it lasts.

Integrated software deployment and management innovation: a bricolage perspective

This paper examines the relationship between management innovation (MI) and enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems deployment in the context of small subsidiaries of an intermediate size enterprise (ISE). In these small enterprises, embedded locally, the resources are limited and the necessity of doing with the means at hand while respecting the rules and directives of the group is important. The results of our intervention research show the existence of several forms and practices of bricolage (tinkering) present at several levels: intra-affiliates, inter-affiliates and group. This research shows the complementarity between both technology innovation (TI) and MI which lead to continuously improve the technology and management practices. The MI and TI co-evolution within the ISE and its subsidiaries, stimulated by the multilevel bricolage approach, allows the continuous improvement of the 'core model' and generates a competitive advantage.

Integrated software deployment and management innovation: a bricolage perspective

This paper examines the relationship between management innovation (MI) and enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems deployment in the context of small subsidiaries of an intermediate size enterprise (ISE). In these small enterprises, embedded locally, the resources are limited and the necessity of doing with the means at hand while respecting the rules and directives of the group is important. The results of our intervention research show the existence of several forms and practices of bricolage (tinkering) present at several levels: intra-affiliates, inter-affiliates and group. This research shows the complementarity between both technology innovation (TI) and MI which lead to continuously improve the technology and management practices. The MI and TI co-evolution within the ISE and its subsidiaries, stimulated by the multilevel bricolage approach, allows the continuous improvement of the 'core model' and generates a competitive advantage.

The Bricolage Practices of Doctors and Development of Community Care System in the Medically Underserved Area

The Bricolage Practices of Doctors and Development of Community Care System in the Medically Underserved Area

Between rap and jihad: spectacular subcutlures, terrorism and visuality

ABSTRACTThis article underlines the importance of terrorist jihadist online communication. The visual expressions of sociocultural identity are a trademark of jihadist terrorist groups. This paper also shows that subcultural perspective constitutes a privileged point of view for the analysis of the phenomenon of Western-born jihadist terrorism. In scientific literature there is a lack of empirical research on the visual dimension of jihadist terrorism in a subcultural perspective. In this perspective, the article analyses the subcultural identity of a Western-born jihadist terrorist, the former rapper Deso Dogg, also known as Abu-Maleeq. This paper proposes an original analysis of terrorist group membership, analysing through visual sociology the YouTube videos of Deso Dogg – Abu-Maleeq. The visual jihadist representation is based on the repetition of semantic elements. This result confirms the importance of the semantic coherence of communication, namely the Hebdigian homology. Furthermore, terrorist communication assigns new meanings to traditional cultural elements. This result confirms the relevance of the subcultural practice of bricolage. In conclusion, the article allows an original perspective for the study of terrorist communication and underlines the importance of Hebdigian perspective for the understanding of what processes turned troubled Western youth into terrorists.

Fair Trade Milk Initiative in Belgium: Bricolage as an Empowering Strategy for Change

AbstractIn a context of multiple crises, dairy farmers struggle to receive a fair remuneration for their work. This situation led to the creation of fair milk projects in Europe. But fair trade projects often suffer from ambiguous interpretations that place them simultaneously in and against the market. This study focuses on a Belgian milk label in order to analyse how dairy farmers developed a particular strategy to create their own fair milk. Based on semi‐structured interviews and using the multi‐level perspective, we propose that articulating the concepts of lock‐ins, bricolage and ambiguity enables us to analyse the potential of this innovation for the transition of the Belgian dairy system. The study shows that fairness is often a matter of divergent interpretations, and its final actualisation is the product of emergent and negotiated relations. By using bricolage practices, the stakeholders reinforced their capacity to gain market power and act within the system they want to change.

Frayed Ends: Refugee Memory and Bricolage Practices of Repair in Dionne Brand’sWhat We All Long Forand Kim Thúy’sRu

Frayed Ends: Refugee Memory and Bricolage Practices of Repair in Dionne Brand’s<i>What We All Long For</i>and Kim Thúy’s<i>Ru</i>