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Bricolage in Scientific Research Practice: An Attempt at Grasping the Meaning of the Concept
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This paper explores bricolage as a qualitative approach to research. Imbued by the broadly linguistic 'bricolage' described by Lévi-Strauss (1962), modern bricolage, as a qualitative research methodology, is best defined by Denzin and Lincoln (2005) as "a complex, dense, reflexive collage-like creation that represents the researcher's images, understandings and interpretations of the world or phenomenon under analysis" (p. 6). It is now regarded as a methodology for professional practice research, including creative studies. It seeks to free bricolage from charges of being "undisciplined" (Roberts, 2018, p. 1), mix-and-match and random (Kincheloe, 2001), and even schizophrenic (Deleuze & Guattari, 1987). Our exploration focuses on several features of the methodology: its ability to incorporate and allow eclecticism, multiplicity and diversity of practice; its alignment with a transdisciplinary approach, and its concordance with a portfolio method of curating collections of outputs. As a methodology of emergence, it is tolerant of the stop-start nature of practitioner research we recognise from the tenuous age of COVID-19. It holds possibilities for learners and for mentors.
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Towards a Foundation of Bricolage in Organization and Management Theory
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This article provides a conceptual underpinning for the study of bricolage in organizations. Based on a review of Claude Lévi-Strauss’s original writing, we propose that bricolage involves an ideal-typical configuration of acting (practice), knowing (epistemology) and an underlying world view (metaphysics) and develop the opposed ideal-types of the bricoleur and the engineer. We then explore and propose to distinguish two forms of collective bricolage—familiar and convention-based—depending on the type of interaction and the nature of the conventions employed. Finally, we highlight the tension between ideal-typical bricolage and general organizational norms and standards, and discuss both the bricoleur’s legitimacy and how a bricolage-based arrangement might be embedded into an organizational context.
In the contemporary information environment of the twenty-first century-so aptly named hyperreality by Jean Baudrillard, knowledge takes on a different shape and quality. What appears to be commonsense dissipates slowly into the ether, as electronic media refract the world in ways that benefit the purveyors of power. We have never seen anything like this before, a new world-new forms of social regulation, new forms of disinformation, and new modes of hegemony and ideology. In such a cyber/mediated jungle new modes of research are absolutely necessary. This chapter proposes a form of critical cultural studies research that explores what I refer to as cultural pedagogy. Cultural pedagogy is the educational dimension of hyperreality, as learning migrates into new socio-cultural and political spaces. In these pages, I will focus my attention on my research with film, specifically on doing educational research with a bricolage of methods leading to tentative interpretations.
From Theory to Bricolage: Indiscipline and the Exemplary Gesture of Interpretation
This article suggests that our supposedly " post-theoretical " age is more than ever in need of the intellectual gestures which characterized theory in its various guises. After a brief historical schematization of the recent evolutions of theory, it distinguishes four dimensions of intellection (accounting, modeling, storytelling, speculating), which are constantly weaved together whenever we attempt to make sense of our world. It then shows that these four dimensions are all included in the activity of interpretation, which deserves to appear as a continuation of theory by other means. In dialogue with Wlad Godzich,, it re-describes interpretation as a form of indiscipline closer to the bricolage of " the savage mind " than to the unrealistic idealization of modern " Science ". It concludes, however, by rejecting such dichotomies and by calling for " theoricolage " as an indisciplinary and cheerful mix of theory and bricolage.