Power, war, and melodrama in the discourses of political movements

Blain, Michael

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“…This is critically important for those who have low knowledge selfefficacy and strong state orientation and who may develop a tendency to perform routinized and externally controlled behaviors to obviate heavy demands on their relatively low volitional capacities (Kuhl, 1985). In addition, to save oneself from the risk of making a mistake, one may choose to keep quiet or say what the manager wants to hear in responding to organizational knowledge-sharing policy (Blain, 1994;Deter & Edmondson, 2007;Voelpe & Han, 2005). Yet, these passive enactments can impede the organizational knowledge innovation.…”

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confidence: 98%

A study of the intention–action gap in knowledge sharing practices

Kuo

Young

2008

J. Am. Soc. Inf. Sci.

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Recently, several researchers have questioned the predicting power of intention to actual system usage (Burton‐Jones & Straub, 2006; Jasperson, Carter, & Zmud, 2005; Kim & Malhotra, 2005; Kim, Malhotra, & Narasimhan, 2005; Limayem & Hirt, 2003). In this article, we report a study that investigates the gap between intention and usage by observing an Internet‐based knowledge management system, SCTNet, from the perspective of volitional control. Relying on the theory of planned behavior and the theory of action control, we investigate four types of volitional control mechanisms that may impact people's knowledge‐sharing practices. Our results show that in knowledge‐management‐based knowledge sharing, people do not always perform in a manner consistent with their espoused beliefs. This intention–action inconsistency can be explained by perceived self‐efficacy, but not by intention and controllability. In addition, a person's action/state orientation moderates his or her enactment of intention toward knowledge sharing into behaviors. The main theoretical implication of this study is that the study of knowledge‐management‐based knowledge sharing has to go beyond intention to include the investigation of both the actual behaviors of knowledge sharing and the volitional control constructs that predict these behaviors. Furthermore, previous research has shown that the environment interacts reciprocally with individuals' psychological control mechanisms in regulating their behaviors. Thus, the management must focus on the social and cultural attributes of organizational settings that may strengthen people's volitional control in practicing knowledge sharing.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

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A study of the intention–action gap in knowledge sharing practices

Kuo

Young

2008

J. Am. Soc. Inf. Sci.

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“…Subversive storytelling presents itself as a discursive opportunity for political actors to creatively negotiate the meanings of immediate social situations. It is a vital source of collective identity and social solidarity for political actors (Blain, 1994), especially when it validates the biography and resonates with the cultural heritage of story-users. The employment of subversive storytelling establishes moral, social, and symbolic boundaries between political actors, their allies, and their opponents (Stewart et al, 2002); attributes blame and praise to actors and actions in a political field (Whooley, 2006); "affirm[s] the virtues .…”

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The Bible, religious storytelling, and revolution: The case of Solentiname, Nicaragua

Reed¹

2017

Critical Research on Religion

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Building on the storytelling, political storytelling, and religious storytelling literatures, I examined the role religious stories play in the formation of revolutionary convictions. This study’s primary sources of data are volumes I, II, and III of The Gospel in Solentiname, a historical record of religious discussions that took place in an isolated campesino community at a seminary-like setting under a growing national revolutionary scenario in 1970s Nicaragua. My analysis of these discussions reveals that religious discourse based on stories of prophecy, Christian virtue, miracles, and social challenges to revolutionary action allowed story-users to assert, explore, and promote models of action and moral orientation consistent with the making of revolution.

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“…The tactical use of this device is a key feature of modern politics. The Nazi use of propaganda and its campaign against the Jews constitute a cultural paradigm of this political practice (Blain , , 1995; Burke 1941, 191–220; Duncan , 238–52; Edelman , 155–171; Ivie , ; Ivie and Giner ; Wagner‐Pacifici ). Blain () concluded that these struggles against terrorists (i.e., Indian Wars, WW II/Nazis, Cold War/Communists) have played a constitutive role in American nationalism and US lead Empire (also Rogin ; Slotkin , ).…”

Section: Power/political Victimage Ritual/knowledgementioning

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Social Science Discourse and the Biopolitics of Terrorism

Blain

2015

Sociology Compass

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This article weaves social science discourse into the fabric of a genealogy of terrorism. The power struggles associated with the US lead global war on terrorism are producing many new objects of knowledge and possible lines of research (e.g., Islamic terrorists, jihadists, suicide bombers, experts on counterterrorism, and ISIS). This process is modeled as a cycle involving power struggles and power elite orchestrated political victimage rituals and a biopolitics of knowledge. This dynamic is explored in terms of social science discourse and the biopolitics of terrorism. The limits of current thinking in “counterterrorism” and the possibilities of future research are highlighted

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Power, war, and melodrama in the discourses of political movements

Cited by 38 publications

References 20 publications

A study of the intention–action gap in knowledge sharing practices

A study of the intention–action gap in knowledge sharing practices

The Bible, religious storytelling, and revolution: The case of Solentiname, Nicaragua

Social Science Discourse and the Biopolitics of Terrorism

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