Mobilising affect for public art: affective practice in voluntary organising
Lüthy, Christina LU
(2024)
In Organization Studies
45(11).
p.1555-1577
- Abstract
- Voluntary organising frequently relies on affective intensities to direct organisational efforts. However, it is not well understood how these intensities are cultivated across time and different contexts to engage and coordinate heterogeneous actors. By applying a practice approach to affect, this paper proposes the concept of affective practices to theorise how affect is mobilised in materially driven (inter)actions to shape actions and relationalities around organisational goals. The analysis of ethnographic data from a long-term public art project reveals that four affective practices – enticing, envisioning, attending and asserting – are pivotal to sustaining the distributed process of voluntary organising. The sense of fascination,... (More)
- Voluntary organising frequently relies on affective intensities to direct organisational efforts. However, it is not well understood how these intensities are cultivated across time and different contexts to engage and coordinate heterogeneous actors. By applying a practice approach to affect, this paper proposes the concept of affective practices to theorise how affect is mobilised in materially driven (inter)actions to shape actions and relationalities around organisational goals. The analysis of ethnographic data from a long-term public art project reveals that four affective practices – enticing, envisioning, attending and asserting – are pivotal to sustaining the distributed process of voluntary organising. The sense of fascination, enthusiasm, care and discomfort that these affective practices mobilise instigates participation, support, acceptance and compliance from diverse partners, volunteers and the local public. Contributing to the affective turn in practice theory, the paper theorises how affective processes are cultivated as situative accomplishments in an ongoing and translocal organisational process, highlighting the important role played by the vibrant presence of matter in affective practices. Additionally, the study expands our understanding of how an interplay of affective intensities engages and aligns diverse individuals and groups in voluntary organising by fostering coalitional moments in the organisational process. (Less)
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- 2024
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- affect theory, attunement, coalitional moments, contemporary art, ethnography, materiality, practice theory, voluntary organising
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- Organization Studies
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- 45
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- 11
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- 1555 - 1577
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- SAGE Publications
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- pmid:39493552
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- 0170-8406
- DOI
- 10.1177/01708406241273828
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- English
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