Crisis Ethnography

Yousfi, Hèla; Abdallah, Chahrazad

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“…They argue that sensemaking involves the projection of one's identity into the larger environment and seeing it "reflected back" in a way that allows individuals to "understand what is meaningful in their own identities" (Helms Mills et al, 2010, p. 188) and to analyze the power relationships reflected. Critical sensemaking therefore draws on the wider social structures and discourses as well as the identity and sensory capabilities of the individual sensemaker in order to attribute meaning to experiences or observations (De Rond et al, 2019;Yousfi & Abdallah, 2020).…”

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“…Studies suggest that there are influences on the interpretive process from the wider context within which a researcher operates such as race (Brown, 2011;Fernando et al, 2019), gender (Sobre-Denton, 2012), power structures (Cunliffe & Alcadipani, 2016), cultural factors (Keikelame, 2018;Suarez Delucchi, 2018) and social discourses (Egharevba, 2001) among others. Growing consensus regarding the role of the researcher's sensory capabilities in contributing to sensemaking also provides further impetus for investigating the researcher's positionality (De Rond et al, 2019;Hansen & Trank, 2016;Wacquant, 2015;Yousfi & Abdallah, 2020). We recognize that these categorizations do not imply hard boundaries.…”

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“…Reflexivity is particularly salient in qualitative research, as it allows the researcher to demonstrate methodological trustworthiness, transparency, and rigor in the process of drawing inferences from data and the grounds upon which theorized explanations are selected (Harley & Cornelissen, 2020;Pratt et al, 2020). The reasoning process, as opposed to a set of protocols offers a way to demonstrate rigor (Harley & Cornelissen, 2020) and this approach is particularly suited to autoethnographic research, where the researcher's emotions, struggles, ambiguities, and tensions are involved in the research but can be accessed through reflexive engagement with data (Cunliffe, 2009;Ellis & Bochner, 2000;Empson, 2013;Yousfi & Abdallah, 2020) and self-introspection (Ellis, 1991).…”

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“…Building on Unger's (1987) formative context, Wacquant's (2015) carnal sociology, andDe Rond et al's (2019) embodied sensemaking, we define entwined positionality as an interpretive space which takes into consideration the combined role of the researcher's sensory capabilities and elements of the formative context in providing frames of reference for sensemaking. This is particularly prominent for ethnographers going into a "foreign" field as a growing body of ethnographic research shows (Albu & Costas, 2018;Brummans & Hwang, 2018;Caronia, 2018), although equally relevant for researchers in a familiar field (Yousfi & Abdallah, 2020). An unfamiliar context serves a methodological purpose as it provides an important incorporation of critical distance into the research design (Fine & Hallett, 2014).…”

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Entwined Positionality and Interpretive Frames of Reference: An Autoethnographic Account

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This paper investigates the ethnographic researcher's positionality and its role in sensemaking within the research process. Using autoethnographic data of the first author - a black female West African (Yoruba) scholar in a Western organizational context, we adopt a critical sensemaking approach to make sense of the researcher's field experience. We propose a conceptualization of the researcher's positionality as one that is entwined in the field, being an active interaction of the researcher's formative context with her sensory capabilities. We demonstrate how openness to the researcher's entwined positionality generates interpretive frames of reference and uncovers nuances in the sensemaking process, which widens the scope for reflexivity. We offer a methodological roadmap for engaging entwined positionality in reflexive practice and contribute to the body of research which challenges the idea of the detached researcher; thus, we respond to the growing calls for integrating the elements of a researcher's positionality into research in a way that enhances reflexivity.

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“…The ethnographic observation of the UGTT over time and during different crises ensures the avoidance of the teleological pitfalls, restores the fluidity and contradictions of a context characterized by uncertainty, and an ongoing reassessment of strategies facing an order of constraints as well as rapidly changing power relations (Yousfi and Abdallah, 2020). In this process, the study tried to assimilate the fact that at the beginning of the popular uprising's outbreak, the outcome, as known today, was both unpredictable and unexpected.…”

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Organization and organizing in revolutionary times: The case of Tunisian General Labor Union

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Adopting Barker’s (2011) Marxist approach of a social movement “as a whole”, this article addresses the question of whether and how mass-membership movement organizations can break out of oligarchic authority and support a radical political protest movement. Using an ethnographic approach, this article explores how the UGTT (the Tunisian General Labor Union) responded to organizational challenges during the Tunisian popular uprising in 2010 by examining its intra-organizational processes as well as its interactions with other parts of the protest movement and how their struggles mutually aided the fall of Ben Ali’s regime. The findings highlight that two correlated aspects were critical to a radical transformation of UGTT’s conservative goal. First, unionists with activism experience outside the labor organization played a key role as “mediators,” deriving meaning from the organizational culture of the union to interpret the course of the event, supporting the popular uprising, and forcing the union leadership to join the revolutionary process. Second, the unpredictable and unprecedented regime repression radicalized the protest movement and its claims, and ruptured the union’s traditional bureaucracy. The article concludes by elaborating on the potential of organizational studies to help us understand the role of trade unions in protest movement organizing and, more broadly, the role of formal mass-membership organizations in social movements.

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Revisiting Entrepreneurship as Emancipation: Learning from subalternized women in post-revolutionary Tunisia

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In this article, we investigate how women beneficiaries in a social enterprise in post-revolutionary Tunisia are agents in their emancipation, including through infrapolitical tactics. We conceptualize their position as beneficiaries as a form of subalternity induced from social, economic and political injustice. We deploy the extended case method in a Tunisian ecotourism social enterprise, connecting the micro-level experiences of the women beneficiaries to the macro-level context. Our findings show how beneficiaries engage in three forms of emancipation: Affirming their dreams; Navigating gender relations; and Defending their interests. We thus contribute to existing research by theoretically extending the emancipation–entrepreneurship locus beyond the lead entrepreneur. We also contribute by extending our understanding of subalternized people’s resistance repertoire beyond the hidden vs public resistance dichotomy. Finally, we challenge the representation of ‘subalterns’ as a homogenous and passive category by showing the intersectional differences that affect these women’s agentic possibilities and, thus, their pathways to emancipation.

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Crisis Ethnography

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Entwined Positionality and Interpretive Frames of Reference: An Autoethnographic Account

Entwined Positionality and Interpretive Frames of Reference: An Autoethnographic Account

Organization and organizing in revolutionary times: The case of Tunisian General Labor Union

Revisiting Entrepreneurship as Emancipation: Learning from subalternized women in post-revolutionary Tunisia

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