Queered methodologies for equality, diversity and inclusion researchers

Rumens, Nick

doi:10.4337/9781783476084.00013

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“…Instead, we therefore suggest adopting an anti-narrative approach aimed at ‘reflexively undoing’ the coherent stories people have constructed about themselves (Riach et al, 2016). By foregrounding themes that are conventionally downplayed, such as emotions and power dynamics inherent in activist struggles, we can invite more complex, nonlinear, and non-coherent accounts of people’s lived experiences and allow alternative ideas and feelings to be expressed (Rumens, 2018). This approach leads us to appreciate what activists leave out and what they think is not relevant for discussion.…”

Section: A Toolkit For Activist Micro-csr Researchersmentioning

confidence: 99%

Transforming corporate social responsibilities: Toward an intellectual activist research agenda for micro-CSR research

2020

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In their recent essay, Gond and Moser (2019) have proposed that micro-CSR research has the potential to “matter” and transform business practices as it engages closely with how individuals in companies work with and experience corporate social responsibility (CSR). But can micro-CSR research in its current form realize this transformative potential and serve social justice? Adopting an intellectual activist position, we argue that the transformative potential of micro-CSR is severely limited by its predominant focus on CSR as defined, presented, and promoted by companies themselves, thereby serving to sustain the hegemony of the business case for CSR, promoting narrow interests and maintaining managerial control over corporate responsibilities. We propose that micro-CSR researchers broaden the scope of their research to cultivate the potential of alternative ideas, voices, and activities found in organizational life. In so doing we lay out a research agenda that embraces employee activism, listens to alternative voices, and unfolds confrontational, subversive, and covert activities. In the hope of inspiring other micro-CSR researchers to explore these unconventional paths, we also offer suggestions as to how we can pursue them through empirical research.

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Section: A Toolkit For Activist Micro-csr Researchersmentioning

confidence: 99%

Transforming corporate social responsibilities: Toward an intellectual activist research agenda for micro-CSR research

2020

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“…I read clearly on the faces of other members of the class the unease caused by confusion with new ideas. My classmates mutter shared gripes with each other, fuelled by this panic, a façade of ontological stability shaken in the face of such a challenge (Rumens, 2018).…”

Section: The Phd Journeymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In contemplating just how I might queer my project, from theory to methodology to findings, I seek broader considerations of queering within organisational studies. Rumens (2018) offers me something of this feeling of being seen and understood I find often in queer work; he offers his own pursuit of 'queer' as an intellectual and political practice of resisting the 'regimes of the normal' -the normal, we assume, a rounded shape. He explains that traditional research calls for loyalty to convention or discipline; queer methodologies are by their nature disloyal, the way queer theory is disloyal, to binaries, hierarchies, concrete definitions built on norms and assumptions (Rumens 2018).…”

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confidence: 99%