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Tamara: Journal for Critical Organization Inquiry

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Year 2017 
Volume 15 
Issue 3-4

The embodiment of the alternative: a communicational and constitutive approach of an “alternative university”

Sophie Del Fa
University of Quebec in Montreal

2017 15 (3-4) Tamara: Journal for Critical Organization Inquiry

Abstract

This paper proposes a communicative and constitutive theoretical framework to explore the embodiment of the alternative in an alternative university. It responds to a call to deepen the approaches of alternative organizations and to apply the constitutive approach of communication to organizational phenomena. Through the close study of ongoing communicational practices, this paper aims to explore how a communicational approach and Tarde’s three rules of repetition, opposition and adaptation could disclose what it means to be alternative on a daily basis. By undertaking an organizational ethnography of an alternative college in the United States, this paper explores how the alternative is embodied.

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Del Fa, Sophie (2017). The embodiment of the alternative: a communicational and constitutive approach of an “alternative university”. (2017). The embodiment of the alternative: a communicational and constitutive approach of an “alternative university”. Tamara: Journal For Critical Organization Inquiry, 15(3-4), 219-236. (Original work published 2017)

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Del Fa, Sophie. “The Embodiment Of The Alternative: A Communicational And Constitutive Approach Of An “Alternative University””. 2017. Tamara: Journal For Critical Organization Inquiry, vol. 15, no. 3-4, 2017, pp. 219-236.

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Del Fa, Sophie. “The Embodiment Of The Alternative: A Communicational And Constitutive Approach Of An “Alternative University””. Tamara: Journal For Critical Organization Inquiry, Tamara: Journal for Critical Organization Inquiry, 15, no. 3-4 (2017): 219-236.