Situation awareness: some conditions of possibility |
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| Authors: | Roel van Winsen Eder Henriqson Betina Schuler Sidney W.A. Dekker |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Safety Science Innovation Lab – School of Humanities, Griffith University, Nathan Campus, 170 Kessels Road, 4111, Brisbane, Australiaroel.vanwinsen@griffithuni.edu.au;3. School of Aeronautical Science, Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul, Av. Ipiranga 6681, P10/S106, 90619-900, Porto Alegre, Brazil;4. Centre of Philosophy and Education, University of Caxias do Sul, Rua Francisco Getúlio Vargas, 1130, 95070-560, Caxias do Sul, Brazil;5. Safety Science Innovation Lab – School of Humanities, Griffith University, Nathan Campus, 170 Kessels Road, 4111, Brisbane, Australia;6. School of Psychology, University of Queensland, McEwan Building, St. Lucia, Brisbane, Australia |
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| Abstract: | Situation awareness (SA) has become a ubiquitous object of knowledge in our discourses of human performance and accident explanation. Based on Michel Foucault's archaeological approach, in this paper, we examine SA by mapping the ‘conditions of possibility’ for this object to emerge. By highlighting the logic that SA builds upon, the political need that it intends to address, and the knowledges that delimitate it in its constitution, we aim to display the contingent nature of this object. Ultimately, we argue that as a discursive object, SA has effects. |
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| Keywords: | situation awareness human factors Foucault archaeology conditions of possibility |
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