Barbara Pentimalli

University of Quebec in Montreal | UQAM · Department of Education and Specialized Training

This introduction to the Special Issue explores the landscape of the anthropology of gaze by showing how it is defined as a semiotic activity at the heart of professional expertise. It points out the originality of the papers included in this Special Issue: documenting the socio-material forms of teaching beginners the ability to see through the pr...

Cet article repose sur une recherche ethnographique menée dans un laboratoire d'hémodynamique d'un grand hôpital italien effectuant des coronographies et des angioplasties. En adoptant les approches des Social Studies of Scientific Imaging and Visualization et des Workplace Studies, il dévoile comment médecins, techniciens en radiologie et infirmie...

Making music together relies, among other things, on the mutual hearing amongst co-performers and on the visual monitoring of each other’s actions and gestures. This is better facilitated when musicians share a mutual visual space where hearing and seeing play a primary role. However, drawing from workplace studies, linguistic anthropology, an...

Il volume restituisce in versione approfondita e aggiornata i lavori presentati durante il convegno della Società Italiana della Sociologia della Salute (SISS) dell’ottobre 2021 tenuto in modalità online nei mesi della pandemia da Covid-19. Un periodo che resterà nella memoria di tutti per via delle tante e diverse restrizioni e soprattutto dei tan...

L’emergenza da Covid-19 ha posto ai professionisti sanitari sfide nuove: non solo la necessità di specifici modelli organizzativi e di una maggiore ibridazione tra le diverse culture professionali, ma anche significativi mutamenti nelle pratiche di lavoro e nelle modalità di comunicazione, a causa dell’uso pervasivo delle tecnologie digitali. Attra...

Current scenarios in healthcare settings request health and social workers to collaborate in multi-professional teams within networks that cross organisational boundaries and discipli-nary fences. In addition to technical and professional skills, operators and middle manage-ment must therefore develop relational skills to manage transversal project...

Institutional reforms and legislative interventions, having affected the healthcare system for years, seem to confer to the middle management an important role in managing organisational change. From the stories collected through research carried out among learners and ex-learners of the Master in Management and Innovation at Sapienza University of...

Esta introducción al número temático explora el paisaje de la antropología de la mirada mostrando de qué manera se define como una actividad semiológica en el centro de la acción experta profesional. La introducción destaca la originalidad del número: documentar las formas socio-materiales por medio de las que el saber-ver se transmite a los novici...

Cette introduction au dossier thématique explore le paysage de l’anthropologie du regard et montre en quoi il relève d’une activité sémiologique au cœur de l’expertise professionnelle. Elle souligne l’originalité du dossier : documenter les formes socio-matérielles par le biais desquelles ce savoir-voir est transmis aux novices à travers le prisme...

We invite you to submit abstracts for your presentation at the track session: D.4. Learning as a situated and socio-material interaction and the use of imaging technologies Convenors: Barbara Pentimalli (Roma Sapienza University, pentimab@hotmail.it) Andrea Spreafico (Roma Tre University, andrea.spreafico@uniroma3.it) This track is addressed to s...

In the light of new abilities needed to manage multi-professional teams and work in more and more collaborative way within inter-organizational networks in Health and Social Care Settings, our paper analyses how the managerial training responds to these challenges. At first, we will show that the socio-health policies and the current organizational...

Abstract: Many work activities rely on the visual abilities of practitioners to see relevant details of their work environment to act appropriately. Each profession is characterized by a way of seeing some pertinent phenomena to make diagnosis, take decisions and produce a judgment (Bessy & Chateauraynaud, 1993; Latour, 1986). The notion of "profes...

Christian Heath is Professor at King’s College London and co-director of the Work, Interaction and Technology Research Centre. Drawing on Ethnomethodology and Conversation Analysis, he specialises in fine grained, video-based field studies of social interaction. He is currently undertaking research in settings that include auctions, control centres...

This essay documents the practical activity consisting in seeing and learning to see the invisibility of the heart ramifications within an hemodynamic laboratory exploiting imaging technologies. The ethnographic observation shows that the visibility of the images is socially constructed and negotiated among laboratory members and involves the use o...

Fonde sur deux recherches ethnographiques menees dans un centre d’appels espagnol et un atelier d’eboueurs parisien, cet article vise a interpreter les multiples facettes et enjeux sociaux de l’humour au travail pour en enrichir l’analyse sociologique a partir de metiers apparemment tres differents. Notre hypothese repose sur l’idee que l’humour co...

By adopting the dialogic and reflexive approach of the new ethnography, the paper aims to show how a novice field researcher, astonished at the intensity and cheerful, noisy tone of the interactions between female call centre operators, is prompted to take note in her diary of all the playful complaints, insults and jokes hurled at users without th...

Le « bruit » comme ressource pour la coopération et la coordination entre téléopérateurs dans les centres d'appels Résumé En adoptant l'approche des Workplace Studies et en combinant une ethnographie par prise de notes sur le vif avec une ethnographie basée sur des enregistrements audiovisuels dans deux centres d'appels, cet article aborde les « br...

Awareness and cooperative work in a café-restaurant In this paper we present a workplace study of the collaborative activity between cooks and waiters in a restaurant/coffee-house. We show how awareness is linked to the attention mechanisms of the participants and how their level of awareness is constantly varying. First of all, using video footage...