Portraiture and the construction of ‘charismatic leadership’

Acevedo, Beatriz

doi:10.4324/9780203725610.ch7

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“…Following Betts' (2006: 161) study of corporate boardrooms, our research into these settings, and the artefacts displayed within them, placed considerable methodological emphasis on the 'value of looking'. In practice, this meant drawing on methods of visual analysis (Acevedo, 2014;Berger, 1972;Rose, 2007) focusing on their content as well as context, including their framing, positioning and spatial organization.…”

Section: Analysing Commemorative Artefacts and Settingsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Following Betts’ (2006, p. 161) study of corporate boardrooms, our research into these settings and the artefacts displayed within them placed considerable methodological emphasis on the ‘value of looking’. In practice, this meant drawing on methods of visual analysis (Acevedo, 2014; Berger, 1972; Rose, 2007), focusing on their content as well as context, including their framing, positioning and spatial organization. Attention to content led us to explore phenomena such as hue, pigmentation and light saturation in order to describe the effects of colours in the portraits, especially the use of deep and rich colours, and to focus on themes such as posture and gaze (Hancock, 2005; Rippin, 2012).…”

Section: Making Memory: Organizational Memory Commemoration and Portmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…It also acknowledges that engaging with such artefacts or settings is a relational activity (Freeland, 2010). With this in mind, we gave particular attention in our analysis to gaze – the constructed relationship between the subject and viewer of an image or artefact and the shared meanings and resonances implied by this relationship (Acevedo, 2014). Doing so allowed us to explore some of the ways in which the spatial organization of the portraits and the Gardens ‘ design the position of the viewer’ (Kress & van Leeuwen, 1996, p. 119, emphasis added ).…”

Section: Making Memory: Organizational Memory Commemoration and Portmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In this sense, we extended our compositional and spatial analysis of the portraits at Keele Hall to the sculptures and other artefacts in Sackville Gardens. In particular our analysis of the Gardens incorporated exploring context – the broader cultural significance, social-spatial setting and power relations in which the monuments and sculptures were situated (Acevedo, 2014).…”

Section: Making Memory: Organizational Memory Commemoration and Portmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…It is therefore important to consider how commemoration reflects and reproduces organizational hierarchies of recognition and repression (Beyes & Steyaert, 2013; Orr 2014) in ways that potentially undermine a rhetorical commitment to equality, reproducing ‘appropriate’ individuals according to a relatively narrow set of idealized criteria. Yet with a few notable exceptions (Acevedo, 2014; Betts, 2006; Davison, 2010), commemoration continues to be a relatively neglected theme in the study of organizational life. Indeed, as Bell (2012) has noted, we rarely consider the kinds of repetitive imagery that characterizes the commemorative cultures of the organizations we inhabit.…”

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confidence: 99%

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‘Remembering as Forgetting’: Organizational commemoration as a politics of recognition

Cutcher

Dale

Tyler

2017

Organization Studies

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This paper considers the politics of how organizations remember their past through commemorative settings and artefacts. Although these may be seen as 'merely' a backdrop to organizational activity, they form part of the lived experience of organizational spaces that its members enact on a daily basis as part of their routes and routines. The main concern of the paper is with how commemoration is bound up in the reflection and reproduction of hierarchies of organizational recognition. Illustrated with reference to two commemorative settings, the paper explores how organizations might perpetuate a narrow set of symbolic ideals attributing value to particular forms of organizational membership while appearing to devalue others. In doing so, they may communicate values that undermine attempts to achieve equality and inclusion. Developing a recognition-based critique of this process, the discussion emphasizes how commemorative settings and practices work to reproduce established patterns of exclusion and marginalization. To this end, traditional forms of commemorative portraiture that tend to close off difference are contrasted with a memorial garden, in order to explore the potential for an alternative, recognition-based ethics of organizational commemoration that is more open to the Other.

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Section: Analysing Commemorative Artefacts and Settingsmentioning

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Section: Making Memory: Organizational Memory Commemoration and Portmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Making Memory: Organizational Memory Commemoration and Portmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Making Memory: Organizational Memory Commemoration and Portmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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‘Remembering as Forgetting’: Organizational commemoration as a politics of recognition

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Tyler

2017

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Embodied Reflection of Images as an Arts-Based Research Method: Teaching Experiment in Higher Education

2021

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This paper discusses a teaching experiment in which 20 university students in Finland participated in the course Critical and Novel Approaches to Management and Organisational Studies, which familiarized them with the method of embodied reflection of images. First, the paper presents the method and the teaching experiment. Then, it presents and discusses the students’ experiences while experimenting with the method. The students’ written reflections form the data of the study, which were analyzed qualitatively using content analysis. The findings of this small-scale study show that the method of embodied reflection of images provided students with a novel perspective into management and organization, fostered collaboration, and promoted critical thinking. In addition, rational knowledge was furnished with experiential and affective modes of knowledge. Based on students’ positive feedback, the experiment succeeded in elucidating the method and its applicability in research on management and organization. This study promotes teaching arts-based research methods in higher education.

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Spaces and places of remembering and commemoration

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Organisations engage in remembering and commemorative practices, often to produce effects of stability and continuity and to create shared meanings and culture, yet commemoration has been a relatively neglected theme in the study of organisations. The articles in this Special Issue range across diverse examples to provide a rich understanding of the dynamic and complex processes involved in the organisation of commemoration. In particular, they illustrate the importance of paying attention to materialities, spatiality and embodiment in the lived experience of practices of remembering.

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Portraiture and the construction of ‘charismatic leadership’

Cited by 3 publications

References 16 publications

‘Remembering as Forgetting’: Organizational commemoration as a politics of recognition

‘Remembering as Forgetting’: Organizational commemoration as a politics of recognition

Embodied Reflection of Images as an Arts-Based Research Method: Teaching Experiment in Higher Education

Spaces and places of remembering and commemoration

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