Mi casa de los Espíritus (My house of spirits): Challenging patriarchy with magical feminism

Clavijo, Nathalie

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“…Writing and talking about the women's experiences made us reflect on our own vulnerabilities and positionalities as feminist women academics. We could relate to instances of miscarriage (Clavijo, 2023; see also Pérezts, 2022), the blood, the pain, the tears and the mourning that this involves (Boncori and Smith, 2019). We asked ourselves if cheating on someone or being cheated on was radically different from polygamy.…”

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“…He was looking at their children, teaching them the very first lesson she had learnt from Sarah: "heaven lies beneath the feet of your mother" [7]. As a child growing up in a southern setting, Author 1 had learnt to go beyond the rationality of the day (Helin, 2019) and pay special attention to her dreams as experiences lived during the night (Clavijo, 2023) that can reframe life, thought and writing during the day (Cixous, 1993). She revisited and read all 110 pages of diary notes that same night, smiling and crying at the same time.…”

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Cracking a brick in the master's house: counter practices as counter-accounts of difference and survival

Clavijo,

Perray-Redslob,

Mandalaki

2023

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PurposeThis paper aims to examine how an alternative accounting system developed by a marginalised group of women enables them to counter oppressive systems built at the intersections of gender, class and race.Design/methodology/approachThe authors draw on diary notes taken over a period of 13 years in France and Senegal in the context of the first author's family interactions with a community of ten Black immigrant women. The paper relies on Black feminist perspectives, namely, Lorde's work on difference and survival to illuminate how this community of women uses the creative power of its “self-defined differences” to build its own accounting system – a tontine – and work towards its emancipation.FindingsThe authors find that to fight oppressive marginalising structures, the women develop a tontine, an autonomous, self-managed, women-made banking system providing them with cash and working on the basis of trust. This alternative accounting scheme endeavours to fulfil their “situated needs”: to build a home of their own in Senegal. The authors conceptualise the tontine as a “situated accounting” scheme built on the women's own terms, on the basis of sisterhood and opacity. This accounting system enables the women to work towards their “situated emancipation”, alleviating the burden of their marginalisation.Research limitations/implicationsThis paper gives visibility to vulnerable women's agentic capacities through accounting. As no single story captures the nuances and complexities of accounting, further exploration is encouraged.Originality/valueThis paper contributes to the counter-accounting literature that engages with vulnerable, “othered” populations, shedding light on the counter-practices of accounting within a community of ten Black precarious women. In so doing, this study problematises these counter-practices as intersectional and built on “survival skills”. The paper further outlines the emancipatory potential of alternative systems of accounting. It ends with some reflections on doing research through activist curiosity and the need to rethink academic research and knowledge in opposition to dominant epistemic standards of knowledge creation.

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Cracking a brick in the master's house: counter practices as counter-accounts of difference and survival

Clavijo,

Perray-Redslob,

Mandalaki

2023

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Where is the patriarchy?: A review and research agenda for the concept of patriarchy in management and organization studies

Ferry

2024

Gender Work & Organization

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In this paper I analyze 30 years of research on patriarchy in top management and organization studies (MOS) journals, and I map out an agenda for (re)igniting patriarchy as both a topic of study and lens for viewing key MOS issues in a new light. I organize my review (175 articles) around three themes: intersections, subjects, and contexts. By intersections I refer to the nuanced ways that scholars define patriarchy, adopting interdisciplinary and intersectional perspectives to understand the diversity of women's experiences under patriarchal domination. By subjects I refer to the primary focus on women's experiences, and on the ways that women's subjectivities are socially constituted and negotiated within patriarchal discourses of work and organizational life. By contexts I refer to the sites where MOS research has investigated patriarchy, as well as the ways this research has framed patriarchy itself as a context. Based on this thematic review, I outline a future research agenda to further refine the concept in MOS in three key ways. I call for increased research approaches that center the structural/political forces of patriarchy and gender, increased focus on the experiences of men as agents and subjects of patriarchal domination, and increased attention on patriarchy in Western contexts to redress the overrepresentation of research on patriarchy in the Global South. I conclude that patriarchy is an important line of inquiry for MOS, and that further attention to the concept would enable MOS research to contribute more fully to contemporary debates on gender.

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The wor(l)d is out -You are not alone: Toward a healing organizational autoethnography in/through feminist reading and writing

Clavijo,

Mandalaki

2024

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This paper recounts herstories of domestic violence and separation, where by reading and writing of/through one another’s physical and emotional bruises, we create a healing autoethnographic space for connection. We argue that doing so allows us to acquire the feminist relational power necessary to resist when forms of patriarchal violence threaten to hit us again. Our embodied text converses with eclectic feminist works that empower us to write down our wor(l)ds, conceptualizing reading and writing as relational healing processes in this critical autoethnography. Engaging with a healing organizational autoethnography, we suggest, allows us to make sense of the violence and marginalization that masculine organizational norms enact on othered bodies; it leads to understanding knowledge creation more broadly as the relational labor of vulnerable bodies who care for each other. This autoethnographic exploration extends critical autoethnographic work and contributes to feminist debates on writing differently, underscoring the healing potential of reading in relation to writing to voice long-seated trauma in organizational research and experience. In this way, we also amplify the need to create organizational initiatives and spaces that make healing possible.

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Mi casa de los Espíritus (My house of spirits): Challenging patriarchy with magical feminism

Cited by 3 publications

References 77 publications

Cracking a brick in the master's house: counter practices as counter-accounts of difference and survival

Cracking a brick in the master's house: counter practices as counter-accounts of difference and survival

Where is the patriarchy?: A review and research agenda for the concept of patriarchy in management and organization studies

The wor(l)d is out -You are not alone: Toward a healing organizational autoethnography in/through feminist reading and writing

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