Serving Time: Volunteer Work, Liminality and the Uses of Meaningfulness at Music Festivals
| Autor: | Maria Laura Toraldo, Gazi Islam, Gianluigi Mangia |
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| Přispěvatelé: | Università della Svizzera italiana = University of Italian Switzerland (USI), Management et Comportement (MC), Grenoble Ecole de Management, Institut de Recherche en Gestion et en Economie (IREGE), Université Savoie Mont Blanc (USMB [Université de Savoie] [Université de Chambéry]), Mangia, Gianluigi, Toraldo, Maria Laura, Gazi, Islam |
| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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liminality
Strategy and Management media_common.quotation_subject Context (language use) volunteer Ambivalence ethnography Meaningful work meaningful work liminality music festivals transitory spaces volunteer Management of Technology and Innovation 0502 economics and business Immediacy Sociology Business and International Management media_common Commodification 05 social sciences ideology Solidarity Communitas Aesthetics [SHS.GESTION]Humanities and Social Sciences/Business administration 050211 marketing Ideology Liminality 050203 business & management |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Management Studies Journal of Management Studies, 2019, 56 (3), pp.617-654 |
| ISSN: | 1467-6486 0022-2380 |
| DOI: | 10.1111/joms.12414 |
| Popis: | International audience; Drawing from a participant-observer study of volunteering in the context of U.K. music festivals, we examine how the sense of meaningfulness and community relate to instrumental goals of consumption and efficiency. We argue that the liminal nature of the festival setting supports an ambivalence in which meaningfulness is established through constructions of community, while the commodification of community feelings leads to heterogeneous understandings of the work setting. Our findings reveal heterogeneous ways in which work was rendered meaningful by festival volunteers, ranging from 1.) A commodity frame, characterizing work as drudgery seeking "fun" through consumption 2.) A "communitas" frame, emphasizing a transcendental sense of collective immediacy and 3.) A cynical frame, where communitas discourse is used instrumentally by both managers and workers. We discuss meaningful work as caught between creative community and ideological mystification, and how alternative workspaces vacillate between emancipatory principles of solidarity and neo-normative forms of ideological control. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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