Teija Rantala

Exploring Data Production in Motion facilitates the use of feminist critical qualitative methodologies. With open-ended methods and poststructuralist theory and analysis, this book will offer tools to approach and to examine challenging and controversial topics ethically. This book will argue that to examine data of “individual” experience and aspirations requires examining the process of the data production in which these were “produced”. Therefore, this book will form an understanding of a data production as a process, which in its fluidity enables us also to form an understanding of difference and change as inevitable parts of social processes. Movement expresses here the dynamic forces in the data production (including its analysis), which produce “the life” to the lines of the data. It welcomes change and uncertainty by allowing the data production processes, its intensities and fluctuations, to take the lead in the inquiry. This compels the methods to adjust to the requirements of the data production processes. The book demonstrates the use of feminist methodology and illuminates how the feminist critical inquiry is essential in examining issues of minority and difference. In this the focus is in the differences. As a feminist inquiry this book contributes to recognizing differences within while examining minority worldviews and perceiving difference as essential force in striving for sustainable ethics in the times of political polarization.

Exploring Data Production in Motion facilitates the use of feminist critical qualitative methodologies. With open-ended methods and poststructuralist theory and analysis, this book will offer tools to approach and to examine challenging and controversial topics ethically. This book will argue that to examine data of “individual” experience and aspirations requires examining the process of the data production in which these were “produced”. Therefore, this book will form an understanding of a data production as a process, which in its fluidity enables us also to form an understanding of difference and change as inevitable parts of social processes. Movement expresses here the dynamic forces in the data production (including its analysis), which produce “the life” to the lines of the data. It welcomes change and uncertainty by allowing the data production processes, its intensities and fluctuations, to take the lead in the inquiry. This compels the methods to adjust to the requirements of the data production processes. The book demonstrates the use of feminist methodology and illuminates how the feminist critical inquiry is essential in examining issues of minority and difference. In this the focus is in the differences. As a feminist inquiry this book contributes to recognizing differences within while examining minority worldviews and perceiving difference as essential force in striving for sustainable ethics in the times of political polarization.

Pomon rooliin ryhtyminen ei ole aina helppoa. Pomon pitäisi näyttää suuntaa ja auttaa työyhteisöä onnistumaan. Hyvin harvoin asiat kuitenkaan sujuvat niin kuin oli ajatellut. Muutosten toteuttaminen takkuaa. Työntekijät turhautuvat. Tavoitteita ei saavuteta. Tiimeissä riidellään toimintatavoista. Kokouksia, vaatimuksia ja aivan kaikkea on liikaa. Pomon onkin opittava johtamaan sekä ihmisiä että itseään. On tehtävä viisaita valintoja, ettei pala työssään loppuun. Pieni kirja johtamisesta antaa neuvoja kaaoksenhallintaan, ihmisten johtamiseen, ristiriitojen ratkomiseen ja niihin epätoivon hetkiin, jolloin tekisi mieli heittää keskustelukumppania kännykällä. Kirja on pieni ja kevyt, kulkee matkassa mukana ja löytyy nopeasti tarvittaessa. Sitä voi käyttää itseopiskeluun, oppimateriaalina tai mentoroinnin työkaluna.