Tamara: Journal for Critical Organization Inquiry

Photo Essay: After Life --- Survival of a Ph.D.

Maier, Joachim

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Abstract

Ben Walker’s work (issue 4.2) is focusing on peculiar encounters within the process of writing seminar work. My big pictures will be relating to life after the accomplishment of an academic work: my PhD project at the Humanist University, Utrecht, Holland. My AFTER PhD LIFE displays the organising fabric of community --- through mean(ing)s of self-descriptive practices --- map-making, as Karl Weick would attribute similar kinds of radically contextualizing maneuvers. In order to answering the proverbial After Life (1998) quest follow up on what I have been doing: pick one image, the only image you can take to eternity! However, as you will experience in the course of Hirokazu Koreeda's movie: Imagining your coming memory takes careful preparation. But, don't be afraid --- everything is taken care of...

Metadata

Journal Tamara: Journal for Critical Organization Inquiry 
Volume 4 
Issue 4 
Issue date 2005 
Type Article 
Language en
Pagination 88-116
ISSN 1532-5555