Refusing History at the End of the Earth: Ursula Le Guin's "Sur" and the 2000-01 Women's Antarctica Crossing

Glasberg, Elena

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“…But by side‐stepping the obvious endings and displacing human exceptionalism and masculine orthodoxy into the vast and infinite cosmos, Le Guin opens‐up and broadens the horizon of possible feminist futures, making a point about feminist politics that is important as well as dipped in irony. She proposes a “discontinuous past, present, and future, allowing for a future to emerge that… need not have existed in order to become meaningful in the time of history” (Glasberg, 2002, p. 112). Thus, the text becomes a site of potentialities—multiple, not binary, virtual, not actual, always shifting, not fixed, the “not‐yet.”…”

Section: Part Two: Where the Authors Become Carrier Bag‐ladiesmentioning

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“The King was pregnant”: Organizational studies and speculative fiction with Ursula K. Le Guin

Sayers

Martin

2021

Gender Work & Organization

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Continuing the work of feminist organizational studies scholars who have urged researchers to find ways of presenting knowledge and writing "differently," we discuss the contributions of Ursula Le Guin whose fiction and nonfiction have had a profound influence on feminist theory development. We provide an overview of Le Guin's progenitors, her oeuvre, and provide an explanation and assessment of her influence on feminist thought including the concept of "bag-lady storytelling," speculative thought experiments, and her process of renewal through subversion. We demonstrate her potential for feminist theorizing through analysis of two of her works: the novel "The left hand of darkness," and her short story "Sur." We conclude with a discussion of the implications of our article for organizational studies, and reinforce how her writings are a treasure-trove for writing differently to both subvert and offer more diverse alternatives, and we ask for more work using feminist speculative fiction.

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Section: Part Two: Where the Authors Become Carrier Bag‐ladiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The hut is physically real but also symbolic. It represents patriarchal structures and practices (Barr, 1993), and is evocative of other colonialist endeavors (Glasberg, 2002). The narrator notes in her report the response of her colleagues: “Teresa proposed that we use the hut as our camp.…”

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“The King was pregnant”: Organizational studies and speculative fiction with Ursula K. Le Guin

Sayers

Martin

2021

Gender Work & Organization

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Digital Storytelling Antarctica

Salazar¹,

Barticevic

2015

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Reading in Antarctica

Hofmeyr¹,

Lavery²

2021

Wasafiri

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In April 2019, Isabel Hofmeyr and Charne Lavery, colleagues from the Oceanic Humanities for the Global South project based in Johannesburg, undertook a trip to the Antarctic peninsula. In this article, they discuss their shared yet distinct experiences of the same ten-day cruise, focused on the experience, history, literature, indispensability, and impossibility of reading in Antarctica. The article proceeds in three steps: 'Not Reading in Antarctica', which focuses on the difficulties and dangers of reading in this environment; 'Some Reading in Antarctica', which lists what they did read, both beforehand and on the trip, as well as histories of reading in the far South; and 'Reading the Sea and Ice', which explains how the Antarctic environment turned them into elemental readers, or readers of and for the elements. Combining life writing and cultural history, they approach the question of situated reading as Reader 1 (Hofmeyr) and Reader 2 (Lavery).

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Refusing History at the End of the Earth: Ursula Le Guin's "Sur" and the 2000-01 Women's Antarctica Crossing

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“The King was pregnant”: Organizational studies and speculative fiction with Ursula K. Le Guin

“The King was pregnant”: Organizational studies and speculative fiction with Ursula K. Le Guin

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