Ana Inés Heras Monner Sans. Pensar la autonomía. Dispositivos y mecanismos en proyectos de autogestión.. Intersecciones en Comunicación [online] 2011, n.5. pp. 31-64.

Intersecciones en Comunicación

ISSN 1515-2332 (versión impresa)

ISSN 2250-4184 (versión On-line)

Intersecciones en Comunicación.  n.5 Olavarría ene./dic. 2011

ABSTRACT

LEARNING DEVICES, SELF-MANAGED GROUPS, AUTONOMY AS A PROJECT

The analysis presented here is framed in an ongoing study that focuses on the relationship between self-management (as discursive and cultural practices) and autonomy as a Project. I start by describing the main concepts guiding the research conceptual framework, which is based upon several different disciplinary approaches. I then present a detailed analysis of how knowledge construction on self-management rests on the possibility of creating something anew by participants. In turn, this process of creation is explicitly related to facing tensions inherent to stratification and innovation, and/or direct participation and de-centralization, without necessarily choosing amongst them but by considering them both as part of the process. In the conclusions I discuss the analysis presented by contrasting it with an interpretation of the concept of device, as it is understood by different authors in the field of Philosophy, stressing the relevance of this concept to understand autonomy as a cultural practice, as a set of discourses, and as a Project.

Keywords: learning processes - self-management - ethnography - interactional sociolinguistics - autonomy.