In an attempt to make sense of the concept of career this thesis reports findings from a case-study of twenty graduate level employees within one organisation. Responding to the problematic features of career studies to date, a cross-disciplinary, critical, interpretive, qualitative, contextualised study of career is presented which rejects the dichotomous stances characterising much existing literature and instead embraces the dialectal nature and ontological duality of career. Thus attention is devoted to both the organisation and individual, structure and agency as well as stasis and adaptation. The study is situated in its historical, cultural and social context and the research agenda is purposefully emergent allowing those being studied to lead the way to the key dimensions of career.

Lai, Yuen Shan Elise. / "September 2011." / Thesis (M.F.A.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2011. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 50-52). / Abstracts in English and Chinese. / Everyday life aesthetics / Chapter ´Ø --- Aesthetics experience in everyday life / Chapter ´Ø --- Limitation ´ؤ few and far between / Chapter ´Ø --- Autonomous aesthetics experience in everyday / Chapter - --- "our opinion, decision or engage in an action." / Chapter ´Ø --- The neglected in everyday life / Chapter : --- Luc Tuymans / Chapter : --- Chu Yun / Critique of everyday life / Chapter ´Ø --- "The central concept of le quotidien, the everyday." / Chapter ´Ø --- Everydayness ´ؤ The concept of alienation and mystification. / Chapter ´Ø --- Distant intimacy of everyday life / Chapter : --- Moments / Chapter : --- Chu Yun - Who Has Stolen Our Bodies (2002) / Chapter : --- Jiri Kovanda - actions / Chapter : --- Stephen Shore - Uncommon Places (1973-1981) / Chapter ´Ø --- The 'individual' and 'public change' / About Space and Lived Space / Chapter ´Ø --- Space as a medium / Chapter ´Ø --- The system of space / Chapter : --- Martha Rosier - The Bowery in two inadequate descriptive system (1974-1975) / Chapter ´Ø --- The Lived Space and the hotel / Chapter : --- Sophie Calle - L'Hotel (1981) / The domain of ( ) / Chapter ´Ø --- Strategies / Chapter ´Ø --- Tactics / Chapter ´Ø --- The practice of everyday life / Chapter : --- Reading / Chapter : --- Re-appropriation and end of procedure of creativity / Chapter : --- Jiri Kovanda-I hide (1977) / Chapter : --- "Francis Aly ´ؤ Zocalo, (May 20, 1999)" / Leisure in everyday life / Chapter ´Ø --- Leisure (and work) / Chapter ´Ø --- Leisure - a break / Chapter ´Ø --- The paradox of leisure time / Chapter ´Ø --- Oeuvres / Chapter ´Ø --- Painter as a day-to-day worker / Chapter : --- David Hockney - paintings of the trivia / Chapter : --- Martin Kippenberger - hotel paper drawing as an artistic biography / Conclusion: Travelling: the alternation of everyday life due to the change of time and space / Chapter ´Ø --- Change of the mode of living / Chapter ´Ø --- The journey of the change of time and space / Chapter : --- The airport / Chapter : --- The airplane - as if time has frozen / Chapter ´Ø --- The travelling time / Chapter : --- "Special experience, strangeness, distancing" / Chapter : --- Hotel as a lived space / Chapter : --- "Space: use of space, special owned experience." / Chapter : --- Time: Timeless time / Chapter ´Ø --- "Some leisure, treasures and pleasures" / Bibliography

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