John Shotter

List of John Benjamins publications in which John Shotter is involved.

Book series

Dialogues on Work and Innovation

Edited by Werner Fricke

ISSN 1384-6671

Title

The End of Organization Theory?: Language as a tool in action research and organizational development

Øyvind Pålshaugen

Organizational theorists talk a lot about organizational development. Although they can express themselves eloquently, too often the practitioner is not convinced by their talk. The authors of The End of Organization Theory? are in favor of the ‘doers’ doing most of the talking themselves. Thus, in… read more

[Dialogues on Work and Innovation, 5] 1999. vi, 149 pp.

Shotter, John 2010 Dialogical dynamics: Inside the moment of speaking New Adventures in Language and Interaction, Streeck, Jürgen (ed.), pp. 257–272 | Article

As I see it, all communication begins in, and continues with, our living, spontaneous, expressive-responsive (gestural), bodily activities that occur in the meetings between ourselves and the others and othenesses around us. Indeed, as living, embodied beings, we cannot not be responsive in some… read more

Shotter, John 2004 Expressing and legitimating ‘actionable knowledge’ from within ‘the moment of acting’ Concepts and Transformation 9:2, pp. 205–229 | Article

As living, embodied beings, communication begins in, and continues with, our living, spontaneous, expressive-responsive (gestural), bodily activities that occur in the meetings between ourselves and the others and othenesses around us. It is by our 1st-person expressions that we influence the… read more

Shotter, John 2004 The manufacture of personhood, and the institutionalization of mutual humiliation Concepts and Transformation 9:1, pp. 1–38 | Article

Shotter, John 2003 In defense of public spheres and public goods: Reflecting the social dynamics of American and social capitalism Concepts and Transformation 8:1, pp. 1–23 | Article

This article examines the arguments offered by Will Hutton (2002) in drawing out a whole set of crucial differences between American and European capitalism, and why we should prefer the European version. The essential difference, as he sees it, is that while there is an ultimate preference for… read more

Shotter, John 2003 Wittgenstein’s philosophy and action research Concepts and Transformation 8:3, pp. 295–301 | Miscellaneous

Three themes seem to be common to both Greenwood’s and Gustavsen’s accounts: One is the social isolation of professional [research] elites from the concerns of ordinary people, which connects with another: the privileging of theory over practice. Both of these are connected, however, with a third:… read more

Katz, Arlene M. and John Shotter 2000 For Another First Time: “Instructive Spontaneities” in Dialogical Moments Narrative Identity, Bamberg, Michael and Allyssa McCabe, pp. 253–263 | Miscellaneous

Shotter, John 2000 Wittgenstein and his Philosophy of Beginnings and Beginnings and Beginnings Concepts and Transformation 5:3, pp. 349–362 | Article

Traditionally, compared with Wittgenstein, philosophers have begun their investigation too late in the day. They have thought of people as being already self-conscious, self-contained individuals, acting in a willful and intellectual manner. Indeed, they have interpreted Wittgenstein’s latter… read more

Shotter, John 1999 Review of Zeldin (1998): Conversation Concepts and Transformation 4:2, pp. 225–227 | Review

Shotter, John 1999 An organization’s internal public sphere: its nature and its supplementation The End of Organization Theory?: Language as a tool in action research and organizational development, Pålshaugen, Øyvind, pp. 131–146 | Article

Shotter, John 1998 Review of Bruner (1996): The Culture of Education: Putting a New (Dialogical) Practice into our Practices Concepts and Transformation 3:1/2, pp. 171–178 | Review

Shotter, John 1998 Grounding our Lives in Life Itself: "Perspicuous Representations" Rather than Narratives Narrative Inquiry 8:2, pp. 445–453 | Miscellaneous

Shotter, John 1998 Telling of (not about) Other Voices: 'Real Presences' within a Text Address given at the Work Research Institute, Oslo, March 13th, 1997 Concepts and Transformation 3:1/2, pp. 77–96 | Article

These notes are offered as a contribution towards creating a 'dialogically-structured' form of action research (Toulmin and Gustavsen 1996). What I do want to do in these notes is to show how Wittgenstein's (1953, 1980) claims — that (i) "nothing is hidden" from us in our conduct of our own… read more

Shotter, John 1997 Review of Spinosa, Flores & Dreyfus (1997): Disclosing New Worlds: Entrepreneurship, Democratic Action, and the Cultivation of Solidarity Concepts and Transformation 2:3, pp. 279–286 | Review

Katz, Arlene M. and John Shotter 1996 Articulating Practices: Methods and Experiences: Resonances from within the Practice: Social Poetics in a Mentorship Program Concepts and Transformation 1:2/3, pp. 239–247 | Article

In this article we describe an experimental mentoring program conducted in a major medical school in the Northeast of the United States. In it, primary care physicians mentored medical students in the course of conducting their daily practices. All involved were trained in a special reflecting… read more

Katz, Arlene M. and John Shotter 1996 Articulating Practices: Methods and Experiences: Dialogical Reflection and Community: A Commentary on Ingela Josefson's "Practical Traditions of Knowledge Among Physicians" Concepts and Transformation 1:2/3, pp. 257–260 | Article

Shotter, John and Arlene M. Katz 1996 Articulating Practices: Methods and Experiences: Articulating a Practice from within the Practice Itself: Establishing Formative Dialogues by the Use of a 'Social Poetics' Concepts and Transformation 1:2/3, pp. 213–237 | Article

In this article we describe a set of methods — which we call a 'social poetics ' —for use by a group of practitioners in coming to a more articulate grasp of their own practices, thus to develop them. Crucially influenced by Wittgenstein 's (1953) claims — that "Nothing is hidden" from us in our… read more