Organizational resistance and autoethnography

Frandsen, Sanne; Duncan, Randy; Pelly, M. E.

doi:10.4324/9780429056987-20

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“…Yet, we recognize that organizational change that promotes positive culture-building is not driven by top-down approaches, like mandatory workshops or training sessions. Rather, authentic organizational change is seeded, fomented, and driven by bottom-up cultures; where the individual members of a community demand for systemic changes through workplace resistance (Collinson, 1994;Fleming and Spicer, 2007;Frandsen et al, 2020). Our call to action repeats the plea for allies and accomplices to reinforce their effort and move toward collaborative dialogic efforts modeled by the values of autoethnography toward understanding and shaping organizational cultures.…”

Section: Documentation Girlmentioning

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Pains and portends: A collaborative autoethnography of engineering faculty navigating gendered cultures

Miller¹,

Castaneda

Aleman

2023

Front. Commun.

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This mediated collaborative autoethnography uses reproduced dialogue, poetic inquiry, and composite, fictionalized narratives to story the gendered experiences of two instructional faculty teaching a coordinated engineering class and working in an undergraduate engineering program at a large public university. The contrasting, gendered narratives of the engineering faculty storied in this paper illuminate several themes: (1) discourses of gendered relational labor (masculinized savior vs. feminized emotional work); (2) gendered experiences of invisibility (not being heard or recognized for expertise) and hypervisibility (as a woman in engineering); and (3) the discounting and attempted diminishment of gendered issues in organizational settings. While self-reflexive and dialogic practices embodied in this autoethnography reveal the transformative possibility of accomplices in disrupting gendered relations of power and activating social change from within, those practices alone are insufficient to trouble the masculine culture of engineering. Authentic change demands that these practices be joined with structural, organizational changes in order to reconcile disparate, gendered experiences in engineering cultures, lest the exodus of women from masculine-dominant engineering fields persist unabated.

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Section: Documentation Girlmentioning

confidence: 99%

Pains and portends: A collaborative autoethnography of engineering faculty navigating gendered cultures

Miller¹,

Castaneda

Aleman

2023

Front. Commun.

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Walking the tightrope of academic and practitioner expectations in field research

Harvey,

Spee

2023

Management Learning

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Field research is an important site for engagement between academics and practitioners, and a stepping stone for collecting data, publishing outputs, and fostering impact. Despite a long-standing recognition that academic research should be relevant for practitioners, academic–practitioner relationships have been stymied through stereotypes around the binary expectations of both groups. Drawing on rich illustrations from a global research project, we show some of the challenges that can characterize field research. We illustrate how academic and practitioner tensions can become salient at different stages and impact on the trajectory of a research project. We argue for a dynamic rather than a binary perspective to manage academic–practitioner relationships. This highlights how tensions emerge between academics and practitioners, and offers lessons and reflections on how they can be overcome to achieve mutual positive outcomes.

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The wor(l)d is out -You are not alone: Toward a healing organizational autoethnography in/through feminist reading and writing

Clavijo,

Mandalaki

2024

Organization

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This paper recounts herstories of domestic violence and separation, where by reading and writing of/through one another’s physical and emotional bruises, we create a healing autoethnographic space for connection. We argue that doing so allows us to acquire the feminist relational power necessary to resist when forms of patriarchal violence threaten to hit us again. Our embodied text converses with eclectic feminist works that empower us to write down our wor(l)ds, conceptualizing reading and writing as relational healing processes in this critical autoethnography. Engaging with a healing organizational autoethnography, we suggest, allows us to make sense of the violence and marginalization that masculine organizational norms enact on othered bodies; it leads to understanding knowledge creation more broadly as the relational labor of vulnerable bodies who care for each other. This autoethnographic exploration extends critical autoethnographic work and contributes to feminist debates on writing differently, underscoring the healing potential of reading in relation to writing to voice long-seated trauma in organizational research and experience. In this way, we also amplify the need to create organizational initiatives and spaces that make healing possible.

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Organizational resistance and autoethnography

Cited by 5 publications

References 46 publications

Pains and portends: A collaborative autoethnography of engineering faculty navigating gendered cultures

Pains and portends: A collaborative autoethnography of engineering faculty navigating gendered cultures

Walking the tightrope of academic and practitioner expectations in field research

The wor(l)d is out -You are not alone: Toward a healing organizational autoethnography in/through feminist reading and writing

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