Situating knowledges through feminist objectivity in organization studies

Prasad, Ajnesh; Segarra, Paulina; Villanueva, Cristian E.

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“…Another debate to which research on the new sociology of morality can make a meaningful impact is, what we call, the corporeal turn in business ethics. Feminist researchers in the field have increasingly recognized that ethics is an embodied phenomenon—and, as such, it cannot be divorced from social experience (Mandalaki and Daou 2020 ; Prasad 2014 ; Prasad et al 2020 ; Pullen and Rhodes 2014 ). These researchers have offered empirical evidence to substantiate this position.…”

Section: Dawn Of the New Sociology Of Morality And Its Relevance To Bmentioning

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Opening Constructive Dialogues Between Business Ethics Research and the Sociology of Morality: Introduction to the Thematic Symposium

2020

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Over the last decade, scholars across the wide spectrum of the discipline of sociology have started to reengage with questions on morality and moral phenomena. The continued wave of research in this field, which has come to be known as the new sociology of morality, is a lively research program that has several common grounds with scholarship in the field of business ethics. The aim of this thematic symposium is to open constructive dialogues between these two areas of study. In this introductory essay, we briefly present the project of the new sociology of morality and discuss its relevance for business ethics. We also review the contributions to this thematic symposium and identify four specific domains where future research can contribute to fruitful dialogues between the two fields. Keywords Business ethics • Context • Morality • New sociology of morality • Sociology Moral phenomena-i.e. those related to evaluations of actions, actors, norms, and practices as right or wrong, good or bad, desirable or undesirable-constitute the primary sphere of interest for many disciplines and fields within cognitive, behavioral, and social sciences. While the most general explanations of human moral capacity are usually

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Section: Dawn Of the New Sociology Of Morality And Its Relevance To Bmentioning

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2020

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“…By (partially and synthetically) introducing an intellectual tradition which has both affinity with better-known French feminism but also its own specific developments, our concern is that the flourishing and important body of research on writing outside the canon in management and organization studies (Pullen & Rhodes, 2015) rely on a rich and diverse pool of intellectual traditions, geopolitical arenas and theories. The arena for conversation on feminist politics can be diversified by broadening the field in the direction of more inclusivity and less ethnocentrism (Prasad et al, 2020) and, as we argue, by contextualizing feminist theories and politics, explaining the historical formations of theories and introducing micro-and local histories. An example of this work is Gherardi and Poggio's ( 2009) clarification of the notion of "memory work" by narrating the events surrounding a 1980 German feminist collective based in Hamburg (citing Haug, 1987).…”

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“…Postcolonial feminism and queer studies have also contributed to critiques of the wave periodization and the way it is focused on the experience of white women in North America and Europe while obscuring other traditions of gender resistance (Hogan, 2016;Springer, 2005). A reflection on this point can also be found in the organization studies literature (see for example Bell et al, 2019;Prasad et al, 2020). 6 Italian radical feminism is undergoing a phase of increasing interest, in Europe and North America, as recent research and exhibitions suggest.…”

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Working with words: Italian feminism and organization studies

Pierazzini

Bertelli

Raviola

2021

Gender Work & Organization

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Searching for a writing about organizations that is more real, relevant, and respondent, we propose to engage with Italian feminism of difference and the wealth of practices elaborated by small feminist groups and collectives, associated with it in the seventies. Currently undergoing a phase of rising interest, in Europe and North America, this strand of feminism-philosophically varied and complex-is characterized by the act of grounding theory in practice and articulating practices of political and personal transformation deeply anchored in society, yet outside institutions. In this paper, we aim at presenting Italian feminism and more specifically introduce the main tenets of Italian feminism of difference (of the seventies) to organization studies. We focus on a specific practice of Italian feminism of difference, namely the partire da sé (departing from oneself), prepared by the earlier practice of autocoscienza (political consciousness-raising). Resting particularly on the thinking of the philosopher Luisa Muraro, we frame the potential contribution of her theorizing the partire da sè practice in relation to existing organization research that is grounded in feminist stands.

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“…I think we shouldn't underestimate how we as researchers become entangled with the research setting and our participants, and thus ultimately co‐construct the findings. There are many (feminist) scholars who make this point, for example those who draw from Haraway's ideas about “situated knowledge” (e.g., Prasad et al., 2019). But I do not think this should mean our experiences as scholars in and beyond the academic world should be the sole focus of our research endeavors.…”

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Unsanitized writing practices: Attending to affect and embodiment throughout the research process

Eck

Amsterdam

Brink

2021

Gender Work & Organization

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Using examples from an ethnographic study of aircraft cleaning, we discuss and illustrate how “writing differently” can be performed throughout the research process—in the literature review, data collection, data analysis, and writing up. We argue that writing differently is an ongoing methodological tool in order to rethink/refeel research practices in ways that generate affective, embodied and caring accounts of empirical organizational contexts, particularly when marginalization is key such as in cleaning work. We turn to poetry to better understand and portray the affective and embodied intensities in different phases in the research project. Furthermore, instead of presenting a sanitized authoritative account of writing so that it becomes recognizable as academic knowledge, we leave in the messiness, struggles, and insecurities in “doing” writing differently.

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Situating knowledges through feminist objectivity in organization studies

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Opening Constructive Dialogues Between Business Ethics Research and the Sociology of Morality: Introduction to the Thematic Symposium

Opening Constructive Dialogues Between Business Ethics Research and the Sociology of Morality: Introduction to the Thematic Symposium

Working with words: Italian feminism and organization studies

Unsanitized writing practices: Attending to affect and embodiment throughout the research process

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