Paper Info
Title
The politics of boundary objects: Hegemonic interventions and the making of a document
Abstract
Boundary objects are artifacts that reside in the interface between communities and are capable of bridging assumed and experienced differences. Bridging is not, however, necessarily a neutral or a consensual activity. With an emphasis on documents, the present article discusses the politics of boundary objects by analyzing the role of archaeological reports at boundaries between communities with conflicting interests. The analysis demonstrates and discusses the political and purposeful nature of boundary objects—how they are devices for creating and maintaining hegemonies within communities and achieving authority over other intersecting groups of people. The study uses the notion of hegemony and the discourse theory of Laclau and Mouffe (2001) to conceptualize the role of boundary objects as articulations of power and to explicate the dynamics of how the power is exercised. © 2011 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
Year
DOI
Venue
2011
10.1002/asi.21639
JASIST
Keywords
Field
DocType
purposeful nature,conflicting interest,present article,wiley periodicals,consensual activity,hegemonic intervention,discourse theory,boundary object,archaeological report,intersecting group,experienced difference,library and information science
Social group,World Wide Web,Psychological intervention,Information retrieval,Computer science,Bridging (networking),Hegemony,Epistemology,Politics,Making-of
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
62
12
1532-2882
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
11
0.63
23
Authors
1
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Isto Huvila115223.24