Mise en tension « des savoirs » et négociations identitaires

Abstract

This article proposes the results of an organizational ethnography held in folk high school labelled as an "alternative university" (ULibre). Our focus is centered on three types of "knowledge" (free, marchandized and activist). We think that these three types of knowledge are negociated between the members of this organization and thus act upon its identity. Following a constitutive approach of communication (CCO) and a ventriloquist analysis of the interactions content we postulate through a multiple and disparate knowledge, the organization identity is weakened. We are questioning the ways the member's negotiate a folk high school identity in order to explore in fine the main characteristics and the mode of existence of alternative organizations.