Alterethnography: Reading and writing otherness in organizations

Ericsson, Daniel; Kostera, Monika

doi:10.1111/gwao.12503

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“…We collectively organize by embedding our texts in history as women writing about other women , within this time and space. Our autoethnographical reflections expand alterethnography not only as a way of doing research for change (Ericsson & Kostera, 2020) but also to celebrate, engage, and mobilize change. As feminists, we write to rewrite the “rules of the game” that have historically marginalized, silenced, and divided us.…”

Section: Preludementioning

confidence: 88%

“…Our togetherness is made visible through writing intersectionality; and our individual texts provide space for the unsaid and invisible. We vocalize our multifaceted lived experiences and daily experiments as we embrace vulnerabilities and courage as writers, thus contributing to writing and doing research differently (Ahonen et al., 2020; Einola et al., 2020; Ericsson & Kostera, 2020) by re/writing otherness.…”

Section: Preludementioning

confidence: 99%

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Breaking the mold: Working through our differences to vocalize the sound of change

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Aldossari

Boncori

et al. 2021

Gender Work & Organization

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This paper orchestrates alterethnographical reflections in which we, women, polyphonically document, celebrate and vocalize the sound of change. This change is represented in Kamala Harris's appointment as the first woman, woman of color, and South Asian American as the US Vice President, breaking new boundaries of political leadership, and harvesting new gains for women in leadership and power more broadly. With feminist awareness and curiosity, we organize and mobilize individual texts into a multivocal paper as a way to write solidarity between women. Recognizing our intersectional differences, and power differentials inherent in our different positions in academic hierarchies, we unite to write about our collective concerns regarding gendered, racialised, classed social relations. Coming together across intersectional differences in a writing community has been a vehicle to speak, relate, share, and voice our feelings and thoughts to document this historic moment and build a momentum to fulfill our hopes for social change. As feminists, we accept our responsibility to make this history written, rather than manipulated or erased, by breaking the mold in the form of multi‐layered embodied texts to expand writing and doing research differently through re/writing otherness.

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Section: Preludementioning

confidence: 88%

Section: Preludementioning

confidence: 99%

Breaking the mold: Working through our differences to vocalize the sound of change

Abdellatif

Aldossari

Boncori

et al. 2021

Gender Work & Organization

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“…Jenny: Reading Pauliina's words about her attempt to no longer be ruled by reductionist analytical procedures but to write with generosity, showcases the possibilities, as well as difficulties, in connecting differently to others as well as ourselves. It makes me think of Ericsson and Kostera's (2020, p. 1412) work on “alterethnography,” a form of writing that radically reorients us as we try to more fully understand the other; in short, a writing that “makes space for serendipity and synchronicity, because with the giving up of control of the situation, the researcher becomes more attuned and more sensitive to the unexpected and unplanned.” These words can easily sound romantic in some sort of idealistic world of research, but, as we have seen, it is clearly not. Writing from the flesh is “disruptive, vulnerable and affective.…”

Section: Enablingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Writing embodied generosity

Jääskeläinen

Helin

2021

Gender Work & Organization

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This writing-story showcases the possibilities of shaking off limiting conventions and finding one's own way to academic writing. Pauliina had conducted fieldwork on "embodied facilitations," through methods from dance and movement therapy, in three organizations. She then analyzed her material through thematic coding. This procedure, based on the logic of reduction, removed the diversity of embodied movements that were essential to her and the research participants. In searching for an alternative, we read Cixous' work on "generosity" where she emphasized how the "strangeness" of the other and of ourselves is not something to stay away from, but rather to embrace, during writing. This text, written as an interplay between us, illustrates how the generous stance opened a different approach to writing embodiment in research. We call it "writing embodied generosity"; an art-inspired writing-in-movement through reading, drawing, and listening that overflows and surprises us as we write in embodied multiplicity.

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“…Various reflections on the criticality of how to write ethnography and on the complexities of formally putting observation to paper in a field characterized by diverse positionalities have been offered in the recent years (Abdallah, 2017;Dorion, 2020;Ericsson & Kostera, 2020;Isoke, 2018;Schindler & Schaffer, 2020;Yousfi & Abdallah, 2020). Describing observations 'flatly' is no longer an option.…”

Section: Challenge 4: How To Tell What Was Observed?mentioning

confidence: 99%