Flesh-and-blood knowing

Bispo, Marcelo de Souza; Gherardi, Silvia

doi:10.1108/rausp-04-2019-0066

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“…Embodied research methods have not been widely used in this field, and a discussion of the possible opportunities that such methods can offer to the field has started to gain momentum only in recent years (Bispo & Gherardi, 2019;Thanem & Knights, 2019). With my study, I contribute to these emerging discussions by illustrating the research opportunities that the method of apprenticeship offers the researcher.…”

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confidence: 94%

“…Looking at the application of embodied research methods in the field of organisation studies, it has been pointed by Bispo and Gherardi (2019) and Thanem and Knights (2019) that embodied forms of inquiry are not widely used in this field, and that a discussion of the possible research opportunities that such a mode of inquiry can offer to the field has started to gain a momentum only in recent years. In light of this growing interest in embodied research methods in the field of organisation studies, with my research I contribute to this discussion by sharing the many research opportunities that the method of apprenticeship can offer to the investigation of leadership and affect in organisations, and by illustrating some of the ways that this method can be used in an empirical study.…”

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Affective Leadership Practices: A Framework for Studying Affect and Leadership from a Schatzkian Practice Approach

Maggeni¹

2021

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In this study, I develop a new research avenue through which the leadership phenomenon can be better understood. I do so by developing a novel framework for studying leadership and affect from a Schatzkian practice approach. I developed this framework through a dialogue between theory and my empirical study. The empirical part of my research consisted of a seven-month ethnographic study in one nonprofit service organisation in Israel. I built the theoretical part of this framework by integrating and further synthesising the literatures on affective practices (Wetherell, 2012) and leadership-as-practice (Carroll, Levy, & Richmond, 2008; Raelin, 2016c) based on the practice theory of Theodore Schatzki (1996, 2002). I have called this integrated conceptual framework affective leadership practices. The methodological part of my framework was developed through an experimental process, in which I used different methods and occupied different organisational positions. I found that the method of “apprenticeship”, which entails the active participation of the researcher as a practitioner in the practice that is being studied (Wacquant, 2004, 2005, 2015), was very appropriate to use as the primary research method. This method allows the researcher to generate valuable embodied understanding of the practice that is being studied, while gaining great sensitivity to power relations. This theory-method package (Nicolini, 2017) that I have developed has served me as a heuristic device, a synthesising framework for empirical research. It offered me a certain way to see and analyse leadership and affect (Reckwitz, 2002). Through my data analysis, I illustrate the type of understandings that this framework makes possible to generate. I illuminate the type of normative realities that prevail in the organisation that I studied, and offer nuanced understandings of the ways in which leadership and affect are involved in the construction and reconstruction of these realities. I illustrate how this takes place in reciprocal processes of affective influence that involve multiple human and non-human participants, through which organisational realities are constantly being reproduced, modified, and even resisted. My analysis also illuminates the embeddedness of leadership and the organisation where it manifests in the wider local context. This allows us to comprehend why the organisational realities that I investigated turned out to be in the way they are, who is empowered in these realities, and what effects these realities generate in their local context. The research tools that I have developed in this study and this type of analysis that can be generated with them offer researchers critical, holistic, and situated understandings of leadership and the organisations it transpires from. It places the affective human body and its relations with other human and non-human participants in leadership at centre stage.

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Affective Leadership Practices: A Framework for Studying Affect and Leadership from a Schatzkian Practice Approach

Maggeni¹

2021

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“…Knowledge is produced because there is an engagement of the body within the research. As stated by Bispo and Gherardi (2019), the researcher's interpretation and judgment depend on his/her ability to perceive his/her body. In this regard, doing research implies not only mental but also corporeal and embodied learning.…”

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Body and Senses in Organizational Research: Empathic Understandingfrom an Embodied Experience

Ferreira¹,

Fantinel

Amaro

2021

RAM, Rev. Adm. Mackenzie

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Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to discuss the contributions of the method of empathic understanding to the field of Organizational Studies by highlighting the corporeality and sensitivity of the researcher in the production and interpretation of data. Originality/value: Since empathic understanding can be viewed as a method for analyzing the researcher’s experience during fieldwork, this paper situates the role of the researcher’s body as an instrument for the collection of data during their research. The theory of organizational aesthetics is taken as a basis to discuss the relevance of the sensory dimension during the research process. Without giving priority to any particular sense (such as that of sight, for example), the construction of scientific knowledge is therefore discussed in terms of the human senses that respond to diverse stimuli by highlighting the relevance of the processes involved in the production of embodied and sensible knowledge for Organizational Studies. Design/methodology/approach: A theoretical-empirical study of qualitative nature was carried out in a street market of a Brazilian city. The method of empathic understanding directed the entire process of data collection and analysis, in which the limitations of field observations were discussed by expanding the notion of the researcher’s own experience into that of a sensory experience. Findings: The findings suggest that it is possible for the researcher to engage their mind and body during research by experiencing the field and overcoming dichotomies such as cognition/sensitivity. Such an engagement can be viewed as a major contribution of the method of empathic understanding to Organizational Studies. Thus, the notion of the body as a major vehicle for the construction of knowledge is made evident in this paper through both the discussion of the empathic understanding approach and the research carried out.

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“…In this way, researchers continue the activity through an "active" embodied response (Bakhtin, [1935] 1981) that is produced in our, albeit temporary, living with the other (Schwandt, 2000). The research process would incorporate affect, including such tacit data as the pitch of the voices, the crescendo in verbal interactions, or the doxa or taken-for-granted, unquestioned "truths" (Bourdieu, 1977;de Souza Bispo and Gherardi, 2019). The researcher's observations, however, are as tentative as the participants' activities and reports.…”

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Toward a methodology for studying leadership-as-practice

Raelin

2019

Leadership

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This article is intended as a conceptual and practical foundation for those who wish to conduct research in the area of leadership-as-practice. Rather than offer a single methodology for studying how social and leadership activity is carried out in everyday life, it details a pluralistic set of methods and presents a series of theoretical guidelines through its phenomenological form of inquiry. In particular, it endorses discursive, narrative, ethnographic, aesthetic, and multimodal methods to attempt to capture concurrent, collective, and dialogical social practices. After providing an overview of praxis-oriented research as the methodological basis of leadership-as-practice, the article turns to the conceptual building blocks that can provide some guidance in selecting an appropriate methodology for study. These building blocks incorporate issues of agency, identity, materiality, context, power, and dialogue. The author hopes that researchers will take up the challenge of examining leadership dynamics “from within” to co-participate in working with actors engaged in projects of significance advance their mutual endeavors.

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Flesh-and-blood knowing

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Affective Leadership Practices: A Framework for Studying Affect and Leadership from a Schatzkian Practice Approach

Affective Leadership Practices: A Framework for Studying Affect and Leadership from a Schatzkian Practice Approach

Body and Senses in Organizational Research: Empathic Understandingfrom an Embodied Experience

Toward a methodology for studying leadership-as-practice

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