Dangerous Knowledge: The Political, Personal, and Epistemological Promise of Feminist Research in Management and Organization Studies

2020 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 177-192 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emma Bell ◽  
Susan Meriläinen ◽  
Scott Taylor ◽  
Janne Tienari
Keyword(s):  
Feminist Research ◽  
The Political ◽  
Organization Studies ◽  
Dangerous Knowledge

scholarly journals Phenomenological Underpinnings for Gender and Feminist Research in Education

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 62-79 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fatuma N. Chege
Keyword(s):  
United Nations ◽  
Critical Analysis ◽  
Feminist Research ◽  
Quality Education ◽  
The Political ◽  
Gender Analysis ◽  
Gender Research ◽  
Gender Power ◽  
Research In Education ◽  
Critical Methods

This paper addresses the near-absence of feminist theorisation and methodological considerationsas a conceptual gap in the gender research in African contexts.Not only is this perceived gaprelevant toresearch onfamily and community but it also implicateseducational research that mainly focuses on schooling and its interactions with other social institutionstoperpetuate subordination of women. Arguably,addressing this conceptual gap effectively withincritical and scholarly analytical stanceshas the potential to enhance the unmasking of the subtle drivers of women’ssubordination, that are oftenelusive in gender analysis that is outside the feminist mission.The author usesthe analytic and critical methods of philosophyto elucidate and foreground phenomenological underpinningsthat influencethe construction of gender power relations in the context of feminist theoretical mission which advocates for the understanding of women’s subordination through their voices as well as embracing the political task of challenging and dismantling female subordination in society. The philosophical arguments advanced herein, yield recommendationsand conclusions based on critical analysis of selected examples that are derived from gender research in African contexts and which are relevant to the feminist agenda. The key objective of this paper ismake theoretical and methodological contribution to the field of gender and educational researchthat inform researchers working in 21st Century African settings in pursuance of the attainment of the United Nations SDG 5 on ensuring gender equality and not in the least, SDG 4 on quality education and lifelong learning for all.

Learning the Improvisation of Empathy through a Series of Car Accidents

2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 113-131
Author(s):  
Heather M. Sloane
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Social Action ◽  
Personal Experience ◽  
Personal Information ◽  
Emotional Awareness ◽  
Feminist Research ◽  
The Political ◽  
Self Disclosure ◽  
Self And Other ◽  
Car Accidents

In this article, I analyze self-disclosure in autoethnography and the various degrees of risk experienced by researchers based on social position. I use autoethnography to consider the possibility of researcher empathy that relies on sensory connection between self and other. I use my personal experience with car accidents to analyze cultures of empathy and caregiving. Connections among self-disclosure, empathy, and social action are explored. In autoethnography, the researcher takes on the risk of being subject as well as observer and self-discloses personal information as a way to make clear possible bias and awareness of the partial and political aspects of research observation. I use autoethnography to consider the political hope of feminist research to raise consciousness of injustice and encourage new emotional awareness (empathy) on the part of the community as catalyst for social change.

scholarly journals Feminist Autoethnography, Gender, and Drug Use

2017 ◽  
Vol 44 (4) ◽  
pp. 356-374 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Ettorre
Keyword(s):  
Drug Use ◽  
Feminist Research ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Political ◽  
Gender Analysis ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Use Of Data ◽  
Political Implications

This article explores autoethnography as one way of doing feminist research in the drugs field. By telling my story during my 40 years experience as a feminist researcher in the drugs field, I aim to help those practicing critical drug scholarship to become familiar with this methodology as a viable way of employing a gender analysis, an employment that is the focus of this special issue. This paper is divided into five related discussions. First, I explain what feminist autoethnography is. Second, I look at how doing feminist “drugs” autoethnography helps to develop empathy. Third, I describe the methods and use of data employed in this paper. Fourth, I tell my story chronologically from 1972 to the present time. Lastly, as with many autoethnographies, my analysis of my “story as data” is left to last and I discuss the political implications of my experiences, while “feeling about” empathy as resonance with the other.

scholarly journals Queering Queer Theory in Management and Organization Studies: Notes toward queering heterosexuality

2018 ◽  
Vol 40 (4) ◽  
pp. 593-612 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nick Rumens ◽  
Eloisio Moulin de Souza ◽  
Jo Brewis
Keyword(s):  
Queer Theory ◽  
Gay Men ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
The Political ◽  
Organization Studies ◽  
Workplace Experience ◽  
Political Implications ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Opening Up ◽  
Principal Contribution

This article suggests new possibilities for queer theory in management and organization studies. Management and organization studies has tended to use queer theory as a conceptual resource for studying the workplace experience of ‘minorities’ such as gay men, lesbians and those identifying as bisexual or transgender, often focusing on how heteronormativity shapes the discursive constitution of sexualities and genders coded as such. This deployment is crucial and apposite but it can limit the analytical reach of queer theory, neglecting other objects of analysis like heterosexuality. Potentially, MOS queer theory scholarship could be vulnerable to criticism about overlooking queer theory as a productive site for acknowledging both heterosexuality’s coercive aspects and its non-normative forms. The principal contribution of our article is therefore twofold. First, it proposes a queering of queer theory in management and organization studies, whereby scholars are alert to and question the potential normativities that such research can produce, opening up a space for exploring how heterosexuality can be queered. Second, we show how queering heterosexuality can be another site where queer theory and politics come together in the management and organization studies field, through a shared attempt to undermine sexual and gender binaries and challenge normative social relations. The article concludes by outlining the political implications of queering heterosexuality for generating modes of organizing in which heterosexuality can be experienced as non-normative and how this might rupture and dismantle heteronormativity.

Queer Theory and Feminist Methods: A Review

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 211-220
Author(s):  
Lisa Cuklanz ◽  
Ali Erol
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Queer Theory ◽  
Research Methods ◽  
Critical Consciousness ◽  
Feminist Research ◽  
The Political ◽  
Research Methodologies ◽  
Women's Voice ◽  
Feminist Methods ◽  
Social Project

Feminist research methodologies seek to conduct research that aligns with the political and social project of feminism. These research methodologies specifically focus on women's voice, experiences, and contributions, center a feminist perspective and adopt premises and assumptions of a feminist worldview. Some of these premises—raising critical consciousness, encouraging social change, and emphasizing a diversity of human experience related to gender at the intersection of race, sexuality, and other categories of identity—align with the premises and assumptions of queer theory. Since both feminist and queer research methods aim to centralize the experiences of people marginalized under racist, sexist, heterosexist, patriarchal, and imperialist conditions, both methods seek decentralization of and liberation from such experiences in research methodologies. While this paper will briefly discuss these important points of alignment between feminist methods and queer theory, the main purpose will be to distinguish these two broad approaches and to outline what queer theory additionally brings to the table.

A Seat at the Table and a Room of Their Own: Interconnected processes of social media use at the intersection of gender and occupation

2019 ◽  
Vol 41 (12) ◽  
pp. 1673-1695 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emmanuelle Vaast
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Media Use ◽  
Social Identities ◽  
The Political ◽  
Qualitative Investigation ◽  
Women And Gender ◽  
Social Media Use ◽  
Organization Studies ◽  
To Come ◽  
And Gender

Social media have enabled people to connect with others in unprecedented ways. Existing scholarship has so far provided conflicting insights regarding what people do with these connections. Here I propose that to make sense of what people accomplish with social media-enabled connections, one needs to examine more closely their foundations. Specifically, one key way to understand social media-enabled connections is to consider how social media enable people to come together on the basis of joint social identities. This study focuses on how people use social media in ways that connect them to one another at the intersection of gender and occupational identities, i.e. two social identities that have been central to many organization studies and are critical in today’s societies. The study relies upon the qualitative investigation of how women and gender non-binaries data scientists used social media. The study reveals that, at the intersection of gender and occupation, people use social media to engage in three interconnected processes of promoting inclusion, co-producing equalizing resources, and fostering exclusive enclaves. It brings light to new ambivalence reflected in people’s uses of social media as they seek, simultaneously, to reshape gender dynamics in their occupation and to protect their reputation as competent workers. It unpacks why and how, with social media, the professional and the political have become intertwined.

Re-fashioning stories through feminist filmmaking, an interview with Samita Nandy

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 229-243 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sabrina Moro
Keyword(s):  
Reflective Practice ◽  
Media Studies ◽  
Academic Work ◽  
Feminist Research ◽  
Cultural Dimensions ◽  
The Political ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Specific Interest ◽  
Interview Format ◽  
Artistic Applications

To conclude this Special Issue ‘Re-Fashioning Stories for Celebrity Counterpublics’ of the Journal of Applied Journalism & Media Studies (AJMS), I am delighted to share an interview with Samita Nandy, celebrity scholar, filmmaker and director of the Centre for Media and Celebrity Studies (CMCS). Her research focuses on the cultural dimensions of fame, with a specific interest in celebrity activism, storytelling and the performance of authenticity and intimacy in glamorous narratives. In addition to her academic work, Nandy is also a certified broadcast journalist from Canada and media critic. I had the opportunity to assist her and Kiera Obbard with the organization of the 8th CMCS Conference, which inspired this Special Issue. This interview is thus an opportunity to further expand our reflection on the political possibilities of storytelling and celebrity counterpublics. Our discussion builds on the themes and arguments developed throughout this issue to further explore what popular storytelling means in practice. She reflects on her engagement with celebrity culture and life-writing in her feminist research and artistic endeavours, and how it has empowered her to tell personal and collective stories. The interview format and its themes provide a unique opportunity to contemplate the affordances of a reflective practice paradigm and the artistic applications of disciplinary knowledge, one which bridges academic work with media professions, and which we hope will resonate with AJMS readers.

The Social Origins and Provenance of the English Bishops during the Reign of Edward II

1959 ◽  
Vol 9 ◽  
pp. 51-79
Author(s):  
K. Edwards
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
Social Background ◽  
Early Career ◽  
The Political ◽  
Social Origins ◽  
Political Activities ◽  
Edward Ii ◽  
The Social ◽  
Complete Study ◽  
History Of

During the last twenty or twenty-five years medieval historians have been much interested in the composition of the English episcopate. A number of studies of it have been published on periods ranging from the eleventh to the fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries. A further paper might well seem superfluous. My reason for offering one is that most previous writers have concentrated on analysing the professional circles from which the bishops were drawn, and suggesting the influences which their early careers as royal clerks, university masters and students, secular or regular clergy, may have had on their later work as bishops. They have shown comparatively little interest in their social background and provenance, except for those bishops who belonged to magnate families. Some years ago, when working on the political activities of Edward II's bishops, it seemed to me that social origins, family connexions and provenance might in a number of cases have had at least as much influence on a bishop's attitude to politics as his early career. I there fore collected information about the origins and provenance of these bishops. I now think that a rather more careful and complete study of this subject might throw further light not only on the political history of the reign, but on other problems connected with the character and work of the English episcopate. There is a general impression that in England in the later middle ages the bishops' ties with their dioceses were becoming less close, and that they were normally spending less time in diocesan work than their predecessors in the thirteenth century.

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