‘Bring down the controlled movements!’ – exploring the possibilities of and limitations on achieving embodied agency in ballet and fashion

Satama, Suvi; Huopalainen, Astrid

doi:10.1080/14759551.2016.1151424

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“…Also, we approach embodied experiences as closely attached to the notion of embodied agency. Here, we view agency as self-assertion and reaching beyond the (bodily) limits produced by cultural norms and expectations (Satama and Huopalainen, 2016). To us, the individual can act despite being constrained by surrounding norms, structures and societal expectations.…”

Section: Messy and Fleshy Maternal Experiences In The ‘New’ Academiamentioning

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Mothers and researchers in the making: Negotiating ‘new’ motherhood within the ‘new’ academia

2018

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How do early-career academic mothers balance the demands of contemporary motherhood and academia? More generally, how do working mothers develop their embodied selves in today’s highly competitive working life? This article responds to a recent call to voice maternal experiences in the field of organization studies. Inspired by matricentric feminism and building on our intimate autoethnographic diary notes, we provide a fine-grained understanding of the changing demands that constitute the ongoing negotiation of ‘new’ motherhood within the ‘new’ academia. By highlighting the complexity of embodied experience, we show how motherhood is not an entirely negative experience in the workplace. Despite academia’s neoliberal tendencies, the social privilege of whiteness, heterosexuality and the middle class enables – at times – simultaneous satisfaction with both motherhood and an academic career.

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Mothers and researchers in the making: Negotiating ‘new’ motherhood within the ‘new’ academia

2018

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“…In his study of architects, Styhre (2011: 253) concludes that architects draw upon both cognitive and embodied resources ‘embedded in their collectively enacted capacity’. Some organisational researchers have also found dance as an intriguing context, metaphor and tool with which to identify valuable aspects of organisations and management learning from an embodied perspective (Biehl, 2019; Chandler, 2012; Hujala et al, 2014; Satama, 2016; Satama and Huopalainen, 2018; Springborg and Sutherland, 2016), which is the route this study also takes.…”

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Exploring the embodied subtleties of collaborative creativity: What organisations can learn from dance

Satama

Blomberg

Warren

2021

Management Learning

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This study illustrates the value of embodied subtleties in the process of collaborative creativity. Drawing on a sensory ethnography of two dance productions, we illustrate the fine-grained ways in which professional dancers negotiate creative processes behind the scenes. We identify three aspects through which collaborative creativity emerges from bodily subtleties: (1) moving beyond individual bodies towards collective ambitions, (2) relating to colleagues’ micro-gestures and bodily nuances, and (3) the role of ‘serious play’ between bodies in setting the scene for the first two aspects to occur. The findings will contribute to our understanding of the practice of collaborative creativity, which we treat as not only a mental but also a highly intimate bodily practice. We conclude that appreciating sensory micro-dynamics between oneself and one’s colleagues is crucial for creative collaboration, which is increasingly necessary for management learning in contemporary organisations.

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“…In other words, Kerttu is pictured as much more than a ‘thing’ for Suvi; she is, thus, ‘never an it’, as Taylor () insightfully states. Her agency is co‐constructed continuously in a relational interaction with Suvi (Satama & Huopalainen, ; Schuurman, ). In this relation, also the thoughts and actions of the vets matter.…”

Section: A Story Of Female–canine Companionship: Padding Between Griementioning

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“…Therefore, the self‐identity of humans partly depends on the ways that they construct themselves in relation to their dogs (Skoglund & Redmalm, ). We work from the assumption that human agency is always co‐constructed (e.g., Satama & Huopalainen, ) with, and in relation to, many other living and breathing non‐human agents (e.g., Cudworth, , p. 1). Moreover, we emphasize the embodied, relational and affective aspects of the dog–human relationship as well as the human and animal actions that construct this companionship through mutual interaction (Greenebaum, ; Haraway, ).…”

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‘Please tell me when you are in pain’: A heartbreaking story of care, grief and female–canine companionship

Satama

Huopalainen

2018

Gender Work & Organization

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What could the underdeveloped research area of canine–human companionship teach us about gendered body work as well as offer to the field of organization studies more broadly? This article responds to recent discussions on the animal in the organizational academy. We share an autoethnographic story of female–canine companionship as experienced by one of the authors of the article and her beloved dog, who is currently living on the borderlines between life and death, joy and mourning. We find this example relevant for raising important feminist concerns among organizational scholars about silenced questions around care and grief as well as for developing more inclusive and ethically grounded approaches to exploring research topics dealing with vulnerability. Finally, this article offers a critical reflection on the potential and limitations of alternative research in the field of organization studies that recognizes our affective relations with animals.

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‘Bring down the controlled movements!’ – exploring the possibilities of and limitations on achieving embodied agency in ballet and fashion

Cited by 10 publications

References 48 publications

Mothers and researchers in the making: Negotiating ‘new’ motherhood within the ‘new’ academia

Mothers and researchers in the making: Negotiating ‘new’ motherhood within the ‘new’ academia

Exploring the embodied subtleties of collaborative creativity: What organisations can learn from dance

‘Please tell me when you are in pain’: A heartbreaking story of care, grief and female–canine companionship

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