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Embedded and Embodied Auctors

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In this chapter, and section, I explicitly develop the relational extensions that constitute the relational approach to scholarship that I am advancing. Following Pierpaolo Donati, I mobilize the label auctor—meaning she/he who generates. Orthodox labels such as “agent”, with its assumed agency, and “actor”, she/he who acts upon fail to adequately weave spatio-temporal conditions and organizing activity relationally as they are built upon substantialist foundations. The specific argument of this chapter is that the centrality of organizing in the social world creates an ontological complicity in researchers (and others) that makes it difficult to epistemologically break from ordinary language. Drawing on a long line of argument, there are two aspects involved in developing my claims: (i) the constructedness of knowledge and (ii) the construction of a specific scientific focus of inquiry. Both highlight the need for analysis which shows—constructs—the relations of contemporary spatio-temporal conditions and our understanding of organizing activity.

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Eacott, S. (2018). Embedded and Embodied Auctors . In: Beyond Leadership. Educational Leadership Theory. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-6568-2_4

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