Solid intentions:an archival ethnography of corporate architecture and organizational remembering

Research on organizational spaces has not considered the importance of collective memory for the process of investing meaning in corporate architecture. Employing an archival ethnography approach, practices of organizational remembering emerge as a way to shape the meanings associated with architectural designs. While the role of monuments and museums are well established in studies of collective memory, this research extends the concept of spatiality to the practices of organizational remembering that focus on a wider selection of corporate architecture. By analyzing the historical shift from colonial to modernist architecture for banks and retailers in Ghana and Nigeria in the 1950s and 1960s on the basis of documents and photographs from three different companies, this article shows how archival sources can be used to untangle the ways in which companies seek to ascribe meaning to their architectural output. Buildings allude to the past and the future in a range of complex ways that can be interpreted more fully by reference to the archival sources and the historical context of their creation. Social remembering has the potential to explain why and how buildings have meaning, while archival ethnography offers a new research approach to investigate changing organizational practices

Africa after the Cold War: New Patterns of Government and Politics

Fundamental changes are taking place within the African State system which is still, in essence, the one created by the colonial powers and inherited at independence by the governments of modern Africa. Powerful forces in the industrialized world continue to have a crucial influence on events in the African continent. This paper identifies some of the key features of the emerging political economy of Africa, focusing on the manner in which external forces combine with internal ones in affecting Africa's politics. It pays attention, amongst others, to the importance of foreign aid as a source of revenue for African elites; the industrialized world's misperceptions of Africa; democratization and the decline of African States since the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989; surviving patterns of precolonial political entities; new economic patterns in Africa; the policy of the industrialized world towards Africa and the role of African political elites now that, with the end of the Cold War, Africa has lost its global significance; the end of the Cold War as the real end of the colonial order in Africa and the intimate connection to the present crisis of African States; the collapse of African States and the world's policy of abandonment. Bibliogr., notes, ref., sumASC – Publicaties niet-programma gebonde

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The invention of tradition

This book explores examples of social process of invention, including the craetion of Welsh and Scottis 'national culture' the elaboration of British royal rituals in the ninetheenth and twentieth centuries.vi, 307 p.; 21 c

The invention of tradition

This book explores examples of social process of invention, including the craetion of Welsh and Scottis 'national culture' the elaboration of British royal rituals in the ninetheenth and twentieth centuries.vi, 307 p.; 21 c

The invention of tradition

This book explores examples of social process of invention, including the craetion of Welsh and Scottis 'national culture' the elaboration of British royal rituals in the ninetheenth and twentieth centuries.vi, 307 p.; 21 c

The invention of tradition

This book explores examples of social process of invention, including the craetion of Welsh and Scottis 'national culture' the elaboration of British royal rituals in the ninetheenth and twentieth centuries.vi, 307 p.; 21 c