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Evaluation Practices of Doctoral Examination Committees: Boundary-Work Under Pressure
The doctorate forms the basis for academic careers and the regeneration of academia, and has increasingly become important for other sectors of...
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Drawing the Line: Evaluation, Boundary Work, and Boundary Objects in a New Discipline
Artistic research—research carried out by artists, through artistic practice—displays the markers of a burgeoning academic discipline. Dominant...
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Covid Vaccination Disputes in Czechia: Political Myth-Making and Boundary Work
The paper argues that one of the reasons the suppression of scientific dissent during the Covid pandemic has been so severe was because the dominant...
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Boundary Work in Marketized Chinese Nursing Home Care
Against a background of deepening care marketization and professionalization of care in China’s nursing home sector, and in meeting rapidly growing...
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Inequalities in Neo-mutualistic Professional Organisations: The Boundary Work of Creative Workers in Italy
In this chapter, we discuss how multi-professional organisations, such as mutual aid cooperatives of creative workers, operate as agents of...
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Social Work Practice During COVID-19: Client Needs and Boundary Challenges
While information and communication technologies (ICTs) permeated social work practice long before the onset of COVID-19, the abrupt need to close...
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“Not a lifestyle disease”: the importance of boundary work for the construction of a collective illness identity among people with type 1 diabetes
In this study, we analyse how collective illness identities are created and sustained among people with type 1 diabetes using sociological...
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Sha** Civil Society Leaders: Horizontal and Vertical Boundary Work in Swedish Leadership Training Programmes
Civil society leadership training programmes are a new phenomenon, and they are often overlooked by civil society scholarship despite being linked to...
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ICT Enforced Boundary Work: Availability as a Sociomaterial Practice
The aim of this chapter is to show how ICT is used by employees to manage temporal and spatial availability for work and private matters. This...
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Close Relations and Boundary Work: Family, Kinship and Beyond
Questions about, and definitions of, close relations often raise heated debate, for they concern fundamental ideas about personal and collective...
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Crossing the Lines? Inter- and Multifaith Governance as an Arena of Boundary Work
The chapter analyzes structural and discursive dimensions of urban inter- and multifaith governance of religious diversity through the lens of...
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Body Talk and Boundary Work Among Arab Canadian Immigrant Women
This paper places Latour’s (
2004 ) concept of “body talk” alongside literature on symbolic boundaries to consider how the symbolic judgements and...
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Moderating Work and Leisure: The Relationship between the Work-Leisure Interface and Satisfaction with Work-Leisure Balance
Work and leisure are important parts of people’s lives, and achieving a balance between work and leisure has become a key concern. However, previous...
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Boundary Challenges and the Work of Boundary Spanners
In sketching out a vision for the future public service, Dickinson and Sullivan (2014) argued that we were at the frontier of significant change....
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Continuity or Change? How Migrants’ Musical Activities (Do not) Affect Ethnic Boundaries
Our article discusses whether and how the musical activities of migrants and their descendants contribute to cultural change. Drawing on Andreas...
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Severe Brain Injury and Boundary Work
Based on the concept of boundary work, this chapter focuses on how survivors of severe traumatic brain injury construe themselves and the rest of...
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Positive and Negative Spillover Effects: Managing Multiple Goals in Middle Adulthood
Both in the research literature as well as in popular media, the topic of “work-life” balance receives much attention, particularly for the age group...
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Civil Society Boundary Crossing and Elite Integration
This chapter explores elite boundary crossing between civil society and other societal sectors—including the state, party politics, and business—and...
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Bring Your Own Device (BYOD): Organizational Control and Justice Perspectives
Bring your Own Device (BYOD) is an increasingly popular phenomenon at work, with several potential benefits (e.g., cost reduction, convenience and...
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San Diego's Hybrid Urban Borderlands An Urban Landscape- and Border-Theoretical Approach to the Inner-Ring Redevelopment of America’s Finest City
This study aims for a wider understanding of the redevelopment processes that emerged several decades ago in downtown San Diego and now gradually...