{"id":"https://openalex.org/W213891774","doi":null,"title":"Inside processes: Transitory understandings, action guiding anticipations, and withness thinking","display_name":"Inside processes: Transitory understandings, action guiding anticipations, and withness thinking","publication_year":2005,"publication_date":"2005-08-31","ids":{"openalex":"https://openalex.org/W213891774","mag":"213891774"},"language":"en","primary_location":{"id":"pmh:oai:gesis.izsoz.de:document/38303","doi":null,"is_oa":true,"landing_page_url":"http://www.ssoar.info/ssoar/handle/document/38303","pdf_url":"http://www.ssoar.info/ssoar/handle/document/38303","source":{"id":"https://openalex.org/S4306401996","display_name":"Social Science Open Access Repository (GESIS \u2013 Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences)","issn_l":null,"issn":null,"is_oa":false,"is_in_doaj":false,"is_core":false,"listed_in":[],"host_organization":"https://openalex.org/I4210101898","host_organization_name":"GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences","host_organization_lineage":["https://openalex.org/I4210101898"],"host_organization_lineage_names":[],"type":"repository"},"license":null,"license_id":null,"version":"submittedVersion","is_accepted":false,"is_published":false,"raw_source_name":"International Journal of Action Research","raw_type":"Zeitschriftenartikel"},"volume":null,"type":"article","indexed_in":[],"open_access":{"is_oa":true,"oa_status":"green","oa_url":"http://www.ssoar.info/ssoar/handle/document/38303","any_repository_has_fulltext":true},"authorships":[{"author_position":"first","author":{"id":"https://openalex.org/A5083340636","display_name":"John Shotter","orcid":null,"observed_orcids":[]},"institutions":[],"countries":[],"is_corresponding":true,"raw_author_name":"John Shotter","raw_affiliation_strings":[],"raw_orcid":null,"affiliations":[]}],"institutions":[],"countries_distinct_count":0,"institutions_distinct_count":0,"corresponding_author_ids":["https://openalex.org/A5083340636"],"corresponding_institution_ids":[],"apc_list":null,"apc_paid":null,"fwci":13.5348,"has_fulltext":true,"cited_by_count":36,"citation_normalized_percentile":{"value":0.9809943,"is_in_top_1_percent":false,"is_in_top_10_percent":true},"cited_by_percentile_year":{"min":89,"max":97},"biblio":{"volume":"1","issue":"2","first_page":"157","last_page":"189"},"is_retracted":false,"is_paratext":false,"is_xpac":false,"primary_topic":{"id":"https://openalex.org/T10738","display_name":"Posthumanist Ethics and Activism","score":0.15649999678134918,"subfield":{"id":"https://openalex.org/subfields/3316","display_name":"Cultural Studies"},"field":{"id":"https://openalex.org/fields/33","display_name":"Social Sciences"},"domain":{"id":"https://openalex.org/domains/2","display_name":"Social Sciences"}},"topics":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/T10738","display_name":"Posthumanist Ethics and Activism","score":0.15649999678134918,"subfield":{"id":"https://openalex.org/subfields/3316","display_name":"Cultural Studies"},"field":{"id":"https://openalex.org/fields/33","display_name":"Social Sciences"},"domain":{"id":"https://openalex.org/domains/2","display_name":"Social Sciences"}},{"id":"https://openalex.org/T11592","display_name":"Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy","score":0.11129999905824661,"subfield":{"id":"https://openalex.org/subfields/3205","display_name":"Experimental and Cognitive Psychology"},"field":{"id":"https://openalex.org/fields/32","display_name":"Psychology"},"domain":{"id":"https://openalex.org/domains/2","display_name":"Social Sciences"}},{"id":"https://openalex.org/T11883","display_name":"Embodied and Extended Cognition","score":0.09040000289678574,"subfield":{"id":"https://openalex.org/subfields/2805","display_name":"Cognitive Neuroscience"},"field":{"id":"https://openalex.org/fields/28","display_name":"Neuroscience"},"domain":{"id":"https://openalex.org/domains/1","display_name":"Life Sciences"}}],"keywords":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/dialogical-relationship","display_name":"dialogical relationship","score":0.5559999942779541},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/responsive-action","display_name":"responsive action","score":0.4959999918937683},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/process-understanding","display_name":"process understanding","score":0.3840000033378601},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/karl-polanyi","display_name":"Karl Polanyi","score":0.699999988079071},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/mikhail-bakhtin","display_name":"Bakhtin","score":0.8600000143051147},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/ludwig-wittgenstein","display_name":"Wittgenstein","score":0.9990000128746033},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/lev-vygotsky","display_name":"Vygotsky","score":0.8970000147819519},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/maurice-merleau-ponty","display_name":"Merleau-Ponty","score":0.972000002861023}],"concepts":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/C2780791683","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q846785","display_name":"Action (physics)","level":2,"score":0.7661690711975098},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C111472728","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q9471","display_name":"Epistemology","level":1,"score":0.6801481246948242},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C25343380","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q277521","display_name":"Relation (database)","level":2,"score":0.5965855717658997},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C2776445246","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1792644","display_name":"Style (visual arts)","level":2,"score":0.5843552350997925},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C98045186","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q205663","display_name":"Process (computing)","level":2,"score":0.4599674344062805},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C2779527642","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q108874","display_name":"Happening","level":3,"score":0.43123024702072144},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C144024400","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q21201","display_name":"Sociology","level":0,"score":0.41377484798431396},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C15744967","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q9418","display_name":"Psychology","level":0,"score":0.34577396512031555},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C188147891","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q147638","display_name":"Cognitive science","level":1,"score":0.32671666145324707},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C138885662","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5891","display_name":"Philosophy","level":0,"score":0.1864020824432373},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C41008148","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q21198","display_name":"Computer science","level":0,"score":0.118612140417099},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C95457728","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q309","display_name":"History","level":0,"score":0.10440826416015625},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C121332964","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q413","display_name":"Physics","level":0,"score":0.0},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C166957645","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q23498","display_name":"Archaeology","level":1,"score":0.0},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C77088390","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8513","display_name":"Database","level":1,"score":0.0},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C554144382","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q213156","display_name":"Performance art","level":2,"score":0.0},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C62520636","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q944","display_name":"Quantum mechanics","level":1,"score":0.0},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C52119013","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q50637","display_name":"Art history","level":1,"score":0.0},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C111919701","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q9135","display_name":"Operating system","level":1,"score":0.0}],"mesh":[],"locations_count":2,"locations":[{"id":"pmh:oai:gesis.izsoz.de:document/38303","doi":null,"is_oa":true,"landing_page_url":"http://www.ssoar.info/ssoar/handle/document/38303","pdf_url":"http://www.ssoar.info/ssoar/handle/document/38303","source":{"id":"https://openalex.org/S4306401996","display_name":"Social Science Open Access Repository (GESIS \u2013 Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences)","issn_l":null,"issn":null,"is_oa":false,"is_in_doaj":false,"is_core":false,"listed_in":[],"host_organization":"https://openalex.org/I4210101898","host_organization_name":"GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences","host_organization_lineage":["https://openalex.org/I4210101898"],"host_organization_lineage_names":[],"type":"repository"},"license":null,"license_id":null,"version":"submittedVersion","is_accepted":false,"is_published":false,"raw_source_name":"International Journal of Action Research","raw_type":"Zeitschriftenartikel"},{"id":"mag:213891774","doi":null,"is_oa":false,"landing_page_url":"http://www.johnshotter.com/mypapers/Shotter%20IJAR%202005.pdf","pdf_url":null,"source":{"id":"https://openalex.org/S2764374073","display_name":"IJAR \u2013 International Journal of Action Research","issn_l":"1861-1303","issn":["1861-1303","1861-9916"],"is_oa":false,"is_in_doaj":false,"is_core":true,"listed_in":["cwts-core","jufo-1","norway-1","poland-20","russia-white-list-3"],"host_organization":"https://openalex.org/P4310322500","host_organization_name":"Barbara Budrich","host_organization_lineage":["https://openalex.org/P4310322500"],"host_organization_lineage_names":["Barbara Budrich"],"type":"journal"},"license":null,"license_id":null,"version":null,"is_accepted":false,"is_published":false,"raw_source_name":"IJAR \u2013 International Journal of Action Research","raw_type":null}],"best_oa_location":{"id":"pmh:oai:gesis.izsoz.de:document/38303","doi":null,"is_oa":true,"landing_page_url":"http://www.ssoar.info/ssoar/handle/document/38303","pdf_url":"http://www.ssoar.info/ssoar/handle/document/38303","source":{"id":"https://openalex.org/S4306401996","display_name":"Social Science Open Access Repository (GESIS \u2013 Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences)","issn_l":null,"issn":null,"is_oa":false,"is_in_doaj":false,"is_core":false,"listed_in":[],"host_organization":"https://openalex.org/I4210101898","host_organization_name":"GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences","host_organization_lineage":["https://openalex.org/I4210101898"],"host_organization_lineage_names":[],"type":"repository"},"license":null,"license_id":null,"version":"submittedVersion","is_accepted":false,"is_published":false,"raw_source_name":"International Journal of Action Research","raw_type":"Zeitschriftenartikel"},"sustainable_development_goals":[],"study_designs":[],"awards":[],"funders":[],"has_content":{"pdf":true,"grobid_xml":true},"content_urls":{"pdf":"https://content.openalex.org/works/W213891774.pdf","grobid_xml":"https://content.openalex.org/works/W213891774.grobid-xml"},"referenced_works_count":28,"referenced_works":["https://openalex.org/W1488111828","https://openalex.org/W1541456364","https://openalex.org/W1590674388","https://openalex.org/W1606540910","https://openalex.org/W1964301045","https://openalex.org/W1966594422","https://openalex.org/W1973317427","https://openalex.org/W1981242024","https://openalex.org/W1995229190","https://openalex.org/W1996920171","https://openalex.org/W2000465687","https://openalex.org/W2010275937","https://openalex.org/W2012665947","https://openalex.org/W2014049610","https://openalex.org/W2014829045","https://openalex.org/W2017506304","https://openalex.org/W2045403074","https://openalex.org/W2050607731","https://openalex.org/W2051799795","https://openalex.org/W2077507857","https://openalex.org/W2135943618","https://openalex.org/W2169270048","https://openalex.org/W2319925562","https://openalex.org/W2325828067","https://openalex.org/W2327521297","https://openalex.org/W2568476927","https://openalex.org/W2808369425","https://openalex.org/W3175642576"],"related_works":["https://openalex.org/W2113781560","https://openalex.org/W2504308706","https://openalex.org/W169810428","https://openalex.org/W4281480721","https://openalex.org/W192327652","https://openalex.org/W4302608945","https://openalex.org/W182448360","https://openalex.org/W4367852205","https://openalex.org/W2766999201","https://openalex.org/W2748335103"],"abstract_inverted_index":{"\"To":[0],"talk":[1,74],"and":[2,19,73,103,167,173,178,196],"to":[3,11,28,50,79,108,128,181,202,212],"think,":[4],"not":[5,14],"about":[6,30,35],"process,":[7],"but":[8,45],"in":[9,21,52,60,110,183,208],"relation":[10],"it,":[12],"is":[13,150,185],"easy.":[15],"\\nMany":[16],"brilliant":[17],"writers":[18],"thinkers":[20],"the":[22,33,64,81,147,163,227,230],"recent":[23],"past":[24],"have":[25,47],"helped":[26,48],"us":[27,49,109,129,182,203],"\\nthink":[29],"process":[31],"from":[32,85],"outside,":[34],"processes":[36,62,84],"that":[37,75,149,199,216],"we":[38,117,210,217],"merely":[39],"observe":[40],"\\nas":[41],"happening":[42],"\u2018over":[43],"there\u2019,":[44],"few":[46],"think":[51],"terms":[53],"\\nof":[54],"our":[55,111,186],"own,":[56],"spontaneously":[57],"responsive":[58],"involvement":[59],"ongoing":[61,206],"\\nfrom":[63],"inside.":[65],"Yet":[66],"practitioners":[67],"need":[68],"a":[69],"style":[70,228],"of":[71,83,100,138,165,191,224,232],"thought":[72],"allows":[76],"\\nthem":[77],"uniquely":[78],"affect":[80],"flow":[82],"within":[86,204],"their":[87],"own":[88],"\\nunique":[89],"living":[90,114],"involvements":[91],"with":[92,113,146,170],"them.":[93,123],"Crucially,":[94],"I":[95,159],"will":[96,134,160],"argue,":[97],"this":[98,136],"kind":[99,137],"\\nresponsive":[101],"action":[102],"understanding":[104],"only":[105],"becomes":[106],"available":[107,201],"\\nrelations":[112],"forms":[115],"if":[116],"enter":[118],"into":[119],"dialogically-structured":[120],"relations":[121],"\\nwith":[122],"It":[124],"remains":[125],"utterly":[126],"unavailable":[127,180],"as":[130],"external":[131],"observers.":[132],"\\nI":[133],"call":[135],"thinking,":[139],"thinking-from-within":[140],"or":[141,229],"\u201cwithnessthinking,\u201d":[142],"\\nto":[143,153,176],"contrast":[144],"it":[145,177],"\u201caboutness-thinking\u201d":[148],"more":[151],"familiar":[152],"us.":[154],"In":[155],"articulating":[156],"its":[157],"nature,":[158],"draw":[161],"on":[162],"work":[164],"Bakhtin":[166],"\\nWittgenstein,":[168],"along":[169],"Vygotsky,":[171],"Merleau-Ponty,":[172],"Polanyi.":[174],"Central":[175],"quite":[179],"aboutness-thinking,":[184],"subsidiary":[187],"\\nawareness":[188],"(Polanyi,":[189],"1958)":[190],"certain":[192],"\u201caction":[193],"guiding":[194],"anticipations\u201d":[195],"\\n\u201ctransitory":[197],"understandings\u201d":[198],"become":[200],"any":[205],"\\nprocesses":[207],"which":[209],"happen":[211],"be":[213],"engaged,":[214],"such":[215],"can":[218],"always":[219],"\\nhave":[220],"an":[221],"anticipatory":[222],"sense":[223],"at":[225],"least":[226],"grammar":[231],"what":[233],"next":[234],"\\nmight":[235],"occur.\"":[236],"(author's":[237],"abstract)":[238]},"counts_by_year":[{"year":2025,"cited_by_count":3},{"year":2024,"cited_by_count":2},{"year":2023,"cited_by_count":2},{"year":2022,"cited_by_count":4},{"year":2020,"cited_by_count":2},{"year":2019,"cited_by_count":1},{"year":2018,"cited_by_count":2},{"year":2017,"cited_by_count":1},{"year":2016,"cited_by_count":3},{"year":2015,"cited_by_count":2},{"year":2014,"cited_by_count":2},{"year":2013,"cited_by_count":2},{"year":2012,"cited_by_count":1}],"updated_date":"2026-08-29T07:29:34.045763","created_date":"2016-06-24T00:00:00"}