Project work strategies in fusion research

0544828 - FLÚ 2022 RIV GB eng J - Článek v odborném periodiku
Virtová, Tereza - Vostal, Filip
Project work strategies in fusion research.
Time & Society. Roč. 30, č. 3 (2021), s. 355-378. ISSN 0961-463X. E-ISSN 1461-7463
Grant CEP: GA ČR(CZ) GJ16-18371Y; GA ČR(CZ) GA19-15511S
Institucionální podpora: RVO:67985955
Klíčová slova: Project(ification) * speed/acceleration * fusion research
Obor OECD: Sociology
Impakt faktor: 1.891, rok: 2021
Způsob publikování: Omezený přístup
https://doi.org/10.1177/0961463X21990136

In this article, we examine and discuss observations on projectification from organizational and management studies and contextualize them with recent insights from the discourse around social acceleration. Against the backdrop of these debates, we ethnographically inquire into project work strategies in fusion research. First, we briefly survey existing scholarship that interrogates acceleration and projectification of research. Second, we explain why we focus on projects in fusion research and introduce the site of our investigation. In the third section, we identify three project work strategies in fusion research: content adjusting, temporal stretching, and (de)consolidation. In the final part, we argue that the highlighted project work strategies emerge as a product of the dialectical interplay of projectification and stabilization contexts that yields new spaces and opportunities for crafting agency and negotiating time in research that go beyond the reductive fast/slow dichotomy that nowadays tends to characterize contemporary accounts of temporality in and of research.
Trvalý link: http://hdl.handle.net/11104/0322226