“We Help Who HUD Tells Us to Help”: Epistemology and Agency at Two Nonprofit Organizations

IF 0.7 Q3 COMMUNICATION

WESTERN JOURNAL OF COMMUNICATION Pub Date : 2022-09-12 DOI:10.1080/10570314.2022.2118551

Peter R. Jensen

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Abstract

In this paper, I argue that discussions of organizational agency should be first grounded in epistemology. I examine this by comparing the organizing practices of two homeless shelters for women in the same geographic area. While both shelters face many of the same challenges, their differing epistemic frameworks lead to them conceiving of their agency in different ways. For one shelter, a neoliberal epistemic framework leads to the equating of financial resources with agency. At the other anarchist shelter, agency is conceptualized in terms of flexibility and the capacity to respond to individual needs.

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“我们帮助HUD让我们帮助的人”:两个非营利组织的认识论和代理

在本文中，我认为组织代理的讨论应该首先建立在认识论的基础上。我通过比较同一地理区域内两个无家可归妇女收容所的组织做法来研究这一点。虽然这两个庇护所都面临着许多相同的挑战，但它们不同的认识框架导致它们以不同的方式构想自己的机构。对于一个庇护所来说，新自由主义的认识框架导致了财政资源与代理的等同。在另一个无政府主义庇护所，机构的概念是灵活性和满足个人需求的能力。

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WESTERN JOURNAL OF COMMUNICATION COMMUNICATION-

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1.90

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9.10%

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期刊介绍： Published quarterly since 1937, the Western Journal of Communication is one of two scholarly journals of the Western States Communication Association (WSCA). The journal is dedicated to the publication of original scholarship that enhances our understanding of human communication. Diverse theoretical and methodological perspectives are welcome. WJC"s longstanding commitment to multiple approaches, perspectives, and issues is reflected by its history of publishing research across rhetorical and media studies, interpersonal and intercultural communication, critical and cultural studies, language behavior, performance studies, small group and organizational communication, freedom of speech, and health and family communication.