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    Objects, Bodies and Work Practice

    By Johannes Wagner

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    What role do material objects play in the in-situ, embodied and spatial circumstances of interaction? How do people organize their embodied conduct with regard to such objects, and how is this consequential in and for their work practices? In this volume, contributors focus on these questions in terms of connections between ongoing courses of interaction within work practices, object materiality and mobility in space, bodily movement and manipulation of objects, and language. The chapters in this book address a broad range of settings and actions (including dressmaking, foreign language teaching, international business meetings and forklift driving) where a variety of objects become relevant.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMultilingual Matters
    Release dateJul 15, 2019
    ISBN9781788924542
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