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2022
- handle: 10670/1.s6iiue
- isbn: 9781911693079
- hal: hal-04502525
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Off-work Intimacy MSF Doctors Without Borders Work Life Balance Intimacy boundaries HumanitarianSujets proches
Disputes, Boundary Frontier troubles Borders Frontiers (Boundaries) Geographic boundaries Boundary disputes Territorial boundaries Political boundaries Personnel Workers Laborers Work, Method of Industry (Psychology) Method of work Paws Hands Paw Relations with employees ServantsCiter ce document
Ludovic Joxe, « Spaces of control and spaces of intimacy. The notion of off-work life at Médecins Sans Frontières », HAL-SHS : droit et gestion, ID : 10670/1.s6iiue
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What meaning does the notion of off-work have when employees, such as those at Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), remain constrained by their uninterrupted work for months on end? Based on participant observation during a dozen of missions with MSF, and on the definition of off-work as a time to preserve intimacy, I argue that the notion of off-work is blurred at MSF on the one hand by the sharing of accommodation between colleagues, by the flexibility of working hours, by the presence of 24-hour safety rules or by the delegation of employees' health throughout their mission to the organization, but on the other hand by a motive underlying all the others: the issue surrounding the meaning of the word work, between constraining and fulfilling activity.