Lessons from photoelicitation: encouraging working men to speak

Slutskaya, Natalie; Simpson, Alex; Hughes, Jasson

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“…She argues that the use of photography for her research purposes offers a more 'sensually complete' methodology, helping participants express their aesthetic experiences regarding their relationships with the physical surroundings in an office environment. In a similar vein, Slutskaya, Simpson, and Hughes (2012) use photo elicitation in a research project on working class men who perform work that is commonly seen as distasteful and/or degrading. Conducting 40 in-depth interviews with male butchers about their 'dirty' work on the basis of self-taken photographs, they argue that participant-led photography is particularly useful in contexts where participants consider themselves "non-emotional and self-restrained" (Slutskaya et al, 2012: 20) and, thus, makes possible more expressive and detailed accounts of daily work.…”

Section: Visual Artifacts As a Form Of 'Communication' Between Researmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…It is contended that visual artifacts used in interviews evoke deeper elements of human consciousness than do words (Harper, 2002) -as well as a broad range of emotions. Photographs, images, and drawings may also help participants to express themselves when verbal discussion of a topic is uncomfortable (e.g., Slutskaya et al, 2012), culturally restricted (e.g., , or interviewees are less capable of verbal articulation. In addition, inviting participants to select or create their own visuals signals trust and lowers the power-distance between researcher and participant and grants participants more 'voice' in the overall research process .…”

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The Visual Dimension in Organizing, Organization, and Organization Research: Core Ideas, Current Developments, and Promising Avenues

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Höllerer

Jancsary

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(2013) The visual dimension in organizing, organization, and organization research: Core ideas, current developments, and promising avenues. Academy of Management Annals, 7 (1). pp. 489-555. ISSN 1941-6520 This version is available at: http://epub.wu.ac.at/4991/ Available in ePub WU : April 2016 ePub WU , the institutional repository of the WU Vienna University of Economics and Business, is provided by the University Library and the IT-Services. The aim is to enable open access to the scholarly output of the WU.This document is the version accepted for publication and -in case of peer review -incorporates referee comments. There are minor differences between this and the publisher version which could however affect a citation. Abstract. With the unprecedented rise in the use of visuals, and its undeniable omnipresence in organizational contexts, as well as in the individual's everyday life, organization and management science has recently started to pay closer attention to the to date under-theorized 'visual mode' of discourse and meaning construction. Building primarily on insights from the phenomenological tradition in organization theory and from social semiotics, this article sets out to consolidate previous scholarly efforts and to sketch a fertile future research agenda. After briefly exploring the workings of visuals, we introduce the methodological and theoretical 'roots' of visual studies in a number of disciplines that have a long-standing tradition of incorporating the visual. We then continue by extensively reviewing work in the field of organization and management studies: More specifically, we present five distinct approaches to feature visuals in research designs and to include the visual dimension in scholarly inquiry. Subsequently, we outline, in some detail, promising avenues for future research, and close with a reflection on the impact of visualization on scientific practice itself.

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Section: Visual Artifacts As a Form Of 'Communication' Between Researmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Visual Dimension in Organizing, Organization, and Organization Research: Core Ideas, Current Developments, and Promising Avenues

Meyer

Höllerer

Jancsary

et al. 2013

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“…The domestic worker may be socially tainted through their servile relationship to clients and employers (Bosmans et al 2016). The work of butchers (Meara 1974;Slutskaya et al 2012), funeral directors (Thompson 1991) and (as considered below) garbage workers may result in physical taint as a consequence of contamination from or association with effluence, grime or death. In each case, the proximity of the worker to dirt makes interaction with them undesirable in the mind of the public.…”

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‘Lower than a Snake’s Belly’: Discursive Constructions of Dignity and Heroism in Low-Status Garbage Work

2017

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In this paper, we consider how dignity is discursively constructed in the context of work dominated by physicality and dirt. Based on semi-structured interviews with garbage workers, our analysis considers how the deprivations they experience are cast through discourses intended to construct their individual and collective worth. We consider the manner in which dignity maybe denied to such workers through popular repudiations of individuality and status. We demonstrate how this positioning arises from contact with physical dirt, and associations with socially dirty work based on ascriptions of servility, abuse and ambivalence. We go on to consider how garbage workers respond to this positioning through discourses of 'everyday heroism'. Heroism is evoked through three interrelated narratives that speaks to a particular type of masculinity. The first takes the form of a classic process of reframing and recalibration through which workers not only renegotiate their public position and status, but also point to the inherent value to be had in working with dirt as part of that which we identify as a process of 'affirmation'. The second narrative arises from the imposition of favourable social and occupational comparisons that effectively elevate garbage collectors' social position. The third discourse-and previously unobserved in respect of garbage work-centres on paternalistic practices of care. Combined, these discourses disrupt the generally held view that dirty work is antithetical to heroism and wounds dignity.

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“…Slutskaya, Simpson, and Hughes (2012) note that this is commensurate with the visual taking on a previously unmatched cultural centrality in modern societies. Indeed, as Slutskaya, Simpson, and Hughes (2012, 17) point out, such primacy affords visual representation a 'central role in promoting and facilitating the formation, reflection and inflection of what we "take for granted" about the world'.…”

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What stick figures tell us about Irish politics: creating a critical and collaborative learning space

Feeney

Hogan

Donnelly

2015

Teaching in Higher Education

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This paper focuses upon the interpretation of freehand drawings produced by a small sample of 220 first-year students taking an Irish politics introductory module in response to the question, 'What is Irish Politics?' By sidestepping cognitive verbalprocessing routes, through employing freehand drawing, we aim to create a critical and collaborative learning environment, where students develop their capacity for interpretation and critical self-reflection. This is because the freehand drawing technique, as part of a critical pedagogy, can generate a more critical and inclusive perspective, as visual representations permit us to comprehend the world differently, and understand how others also see the world. We feel that the drawings provide insights into how our youngest voters perceive their society and their place in it, and thus communicate to us their understanding of Irish politics.

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Lessons from photoelicitation: encouraging working men to speak

Cited by 57 publications

References 49 publications

The Visual Dimension in Organizing, Organization, and Organization Research: Core Ideas, Current Developments, and Promising Avenues

The Visual Dimension in Organizing, Organization, and Organization Research: Core Ideas, Current Developments, and Promising Avenues

‘Lower than a Snake’s Belly’: Discursive Constructions of Dignity and Heroism in Low-Status Garbage Work

What stick figures tell us about Irish politics: creating a critical and collaborative learning space

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