toward liberating patterns of interaction

One of my key areas of interest in understanding organisational learning and change in Seva Mandir is the intersection of power, ideology and identity in the patterns of communicative relating that take place amongst those working here. In particular, I am interested in the way that meaning, patterns of inclusion-exclusion, intentions and actions emerge through [...]

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Digging relational sociology

Since the last post, and before it too, I have been quite intensively burrowing through some material on process sociology, relational sociology and critical realism. Through this I came to discover the links between Norbert Elias and Pierre Bourdieu. I toyed with idea of figurations and fields, came across the idea of institutional entrepreneurs and [...]

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Market, State & Civil Society: a flawed distinction?

For some time I have been pondering the distinction that is routinely made between state, market and civil society. I have increasingly been drawn to the conclusion that while this is a convenient and seemingly self-evident distinction it is also, at some more critical level, a flawed – or perhaps better, a misleading – distinction.
The [...]

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