1st Edition

Joint Action Essays in honour of John Shotter

Edited By Tim Corcoran, John Cromby Copyright 2016
272 Pages
by Routledge

270 Pages
by Routledge

270 Pages
by Routledge

Joint Action: Essays in honour of John Shotter brings together a cross-disciplinary group of fifteen respected international scholars to explain the relevance of John Shotter’s work to emerging concerns in twenty-first century social science. Shotter’s work extends over forty years and continues to challenge conventional scientific thinking across a range of topics. The disciplines and... Read more

1. Refracting Shotter Tim Corcoran  and John Cromby  2. John Shotter, uniqueness and poetics: Parallels with Ernst Cassirer Michael Billig  3. "Images of ‘Man’": One revolution around another (in roughly forty winks) Betty M. Bayer  4. Well, err; actually…: John’s battle with language and certainty Andy Lock  5. Critique, construction and confluence: Journeying with John Shotter Kenneth J. Gergen  6. The ethics of relational process: John Shotter’s Radical Presence Sheila McNamee  7. On being good researchers: Virtue, sympathetic co-experience and polyphonic unmasking James Cresswell and Cor Baerveldt  8. With feeling John Cromby  9. Responsive improvisation: The shape of emergent dialogue John W. Lannamann 10. The power of the particular: Notes for an organisational science of singularities Haridimos Tsoukas 11. Twenty-one words that made a difference: Shifting paradigms Ann L. Cunliffe  12. Suppose Shotter had not read Dreyfus? Tom Strong  13. Anticipating hope Tim Corcoran  14. Constructing goes live: Soft self/other differentiation, sound processes and legein Dian Marie Hosking  15. John Shotter’s contribution to a better way Rom Harré

Biography

Tim Corcoran is Senior Research Fellow and Senior Lecturer in Critical Psychology at The Victoria Institute, Victoria University, Melbourne, Australia.  He has extensive experience in educational psychology as a school psychologist and academic.  His work has involved teaching, research and professional practice in Australia, the UK, Singapore and Iraq.  He edited Psychology in education: Critical theory~practice (2014), an international collection of contributions examining critical approaches to educational psychology.  More recently he co-edited Disability studies: Educating for inclusion (2015) and Critical Educational Psychology (2016).  

John Cromby is Reader in Psychology in the School of Management at the University of Leicester, UK. He has worked in the areas of intellectual impairment, mental health and drug addiction, and taught psychology at the universities of Loughborough, Bradford and Nottingham. He is the co-editor of ‘Social Constructionist Psychology: a critical analysis of theory and practice’ (1999); the co-author of Psychology, Mental Health and Distress (2013; winner of a British Psychological Society ‘Book of the Year’ award); and the author of ‘Feeling Bodies: embodying psychology’ (2015).