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Reed‐Danahay, Deborah

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“…Proponents of evocative autoethnography advocate the idea of “moments” of qualitative inquiry (Denzin and Lincoln, 2000) involving deep self-reflexivity, personal, emotional, and corporeal engagement in the final narrative (Ellis, 2004; Ellis and Bochner, 2000; Reed-Danahay, 1997; Van Maanen, 1990). Ethnography, and particularly autoethnography, is “a story of the body told through the body” (Langellier, 1999: 208), which becomes the (auto)ethnographer’s meaning-making medium (Ellis, 2004; Pelias, 1999).…”

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It takes two to tango: Theorizing inter-corporeality through nakedness and eros in researching and writing organizations

Mandalaki

Pérezts

2020

Organization

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Dance with us, on the dance-floor and with words, as we reenact our individual and shared tango autoethnographic experiences to develop an understanding of field inter-corporeality as a phenomenological experience of nakedness empowered by the transformational potential of eros. We write as we dance to discuss how eroticizing through the other’s presence our embodied nakedness, beyond sexual stereotypes, pushes us to meta-reflect on ourselves as organizational ethnographers and writers to reinvent our field and writing interactions as inter-corporeally relational and intersubjective. We problematize the sexual gaze that traditionally associates nakedness with shame and objectified vulnerability to stress the capacity of eroticizing our academic nakedness to enable free, embodied knowledge stripped of the traits of the dominant masculine academic order. In so doing, we join burgeoning autoethnographic and broader debates in the field of organization studies calling for the need to further unveil the embodied, erotic, and feminine aspects of organizational research and writing. Shall we dance?

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It takes two to tango: Theorizing inter-corporeality through nakedness and eros in researching and writing organizations

Mandalaki

Pérezts

2020

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“…This directed the authors toward the qualitative research method of autoethnography. Autoethnography is an unconventional method which belongs to the autobiographical genre of research writing, where individuals record detailed and systematic accounts of their experiences (Doloriet and Sambrook, 2012; Ellis, 1999; Hayano, 1979; Haynes, 2011; Ostentoski, 2015; Prasad, 2014a, b, 2019; Reed-Danahay, 1997; Sparkes, 2000). It is a valuable research method to explore, present and represent one-self (Haynes, 2011).…”

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Transforming employee resistance into organizational learning at a higher education institution in Palestine

Akella

Khoury

2022

QROM

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PurposeThis paper reconceptualizes resistance as a stimulant of organizational learning from a change agent's perspective. Adopting a social constructivism lens, the paper argues that employee resistance has the capacity to trigger individual, group and organizational learning. It explores the “how” question—how can employee resistance be transformed into organizational learning?Design/methodology/approachThis study utilizes the qualitative research method of auto-ethnography. Sensemaking auto-ethnographic narrative accounts of two change agents, internal and external is used to synchronize resistance and learning as well as reflect on the positive impact of organizational change.FindingsRather than, suppressing resistance as a dysfunctional aspect of the change process, becoming aware and making sense of this “misconstrued barrier” to learning and change can transform it into an appropriate feedback mechanism to initiate organizational learning.Practical implicationsThis paper emphasizes the role of change agents in the change process and how their understanding of the culture, change recipients, organizational climate and work environment could increase the success of transforming resistance into learning. Collaboration through social interaction, communication, participation and awareness creation are utilized as effective mechanisms to develop a learning environment.Originality/valueThis research was carried out within an academic setting in a challenging context where not much is known about change initiatives and resistance at a university level.

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“…Qualitative social scientists have defined autoethnography variously. Anthropologist Deborah E. Reed-Danahay's (1997) introduction to a collection of essays helpfully glosses how 'auto/ethnography', 'defined as a form of self-narrative that places the self within a social context', rewrites the self and the social. It is 'both a method and a text' that can be performed by an anthropologist, a nonspecialist, or an autobiographer placing her or his life 'within a story of the social context in which it occurs' as a concomitant story (9).…”

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Manthia Diawara’s Autoethnographic Forays in Memoir and Film from ‘Counter’ to ‘Strong’ to ‘Beyond’

Watson

2021

Life Writing

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In order to suggest the larger terms, parameters, and limits of autoethnographic method in life narrative, this essay explores three life narratives from filmmaker, writer, and critic Manthia Diawara that engage and exemplify different models of autoethnographic method, and points up the interests and issues raised by each. In the films Rouch in Reverse and An Opera of the World and the memoir/short film In Search of Africa, it makes distinctions among counter-ethnography, 'strong' autoethnography, and the terrain 'beyond' autoethnography and suggests their applicability to the literary memoirs of such writers as Annie Ernaux and Audre Lorde.

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Cited by 45 publications

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It takes two to tango: Theorizing inter-corporeality through nakedness and eros in researching and writing organizations

It takes two to tango: Theorizing inter-corporeality through nakedness and eros in researching and writing organizations

Transforming employee resistance into organizational learning at a higher education institution in Palestine

Manthia Diawara’s Autoethnographic Forays in Memoir and Film from ‘Counter’ to ‘Strong’ to ‘Beyond’

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