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Submitted by piyush32159 on April 5, 2008
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A Rural Tale:
A Cautionary Allegory for IS Researchers
Professor Mike Newman
Abstract
A textual fragment from a case study describing the attempted introduction of a simple water deliver system into a rural village is presented. Using text as allegory, we try to reveal how textual analysis, management change theories, social theory and IS literature can be used to add to our understanding of the events portrayed in the text. We show what each interpretive device contributes to our understanding as well as uncovering their limitations. The paper ends by drawing some lessons for IS researchers.
Keywords: Allegory, Information Systems, Research, Management Change Theories, Textual Analysis
1. Introduction and the Rural Tale
Consider the following description of a series of events at a rural village:
“A story was recently told concerning a certain village in a developing countryS1. The villagers were approached by foreign aid workers with a view to making their lives easierS2. One of the features of village life that the experts noticed was the considerable time the women spent going quite long distances together to bring back water in jars to their hutsS3.
The experts considered this problem and came up with a fairly low-tech solution to ease the women’s burden: they provided a pump and water pipe from the water supply and taps for each hutS4. Then, instead of walking several times a day to pick up the water, the women could fill up their jars as often as they wished at their hutsS5. The experts, waiting perhaps for the accolades of the villagers were astounded instead by their hostile reaction: collectively, the women decided not to use the tapsS6”.
Ostensibly it seems straightforward as a tale. A group of aid workers (experts) enter a village and attempt to make the women’s lives easier by removing what they saw as the...
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