Sensory ethnography: a creative turn

Calvey, David

doi:10.1108/joe-10-2021-086

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“…This suggests that participation in an accelerator is not a static experience and provides a foundation for how the temporal length of an accelerator is related to various aspects (see also Gidley and (Pauwels et al, 2016), lead to different types of suffering? Do video game developers accept overwork as an industry norm (Whitson, 2020), or are certain types of suffering expected (Calvey, 2021;Vlasov et al, 2021)? We argue suffering in an organizational accelerator is complex, and our contribution is one of the first to suggest the possible consequences.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In this view, suffering happens, but it is an aberration. Therefore, suffering rarely appears in studies of organizations either because organizing presumes control (Gill, 2019), the study focuses elsewhere (Kanov, 2021), or the physical pain appears as a small aspect of a larger story (Calvey, 2021; Lubit and Gidley, 2021). By considering suffering, “we have to revise our representations of social organization or social structure” (Davis, 1992, p. 158).…”

Section: Organizational Accelerators and Sufferingmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…For simplicity, two common and interlinked forms are physical and mental suffering. Physical suffering covers pain, injury and other bodily ailments (Calvey, 2021; Lubit and Gidley, 2021; Stowell and Warren, 2018; Phakathi, 2013). Mental suffering includes stress, burnout, depression and other psychological impacts (Allard-Poesi and Hollet-Haudebert, 2017; Vlasov et al ., 2021; Warden, 2013).…”

Section: Organizational Accelerators and Sufferingmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Suffering, recovery and participant experience in a video game development accelerator

Gidley

Palmer

Gharib

2022

JOE

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PurposeThe authors aimed to explore how involvement in a creative development accelerator impacted participants. In particular, the authors considered the role of suffering in the acceleration process.Design/methodology/approachThe authors conducted an ethnography of a rapid prototyping program in video game development. Data collection included participant observation (162 h before, 186 during and 463 h after the main prototyping), interviews (23 formal and 35 informal) and artifact analysis (presentations, documents, games).FindingsAcceleration led to individual suffering via burnout, lack of sleep, overwork and illness. In turn, participants required varying periods of recovery after participation and diverged in their longer-term reaction to the experience. The authors make two contributions. First, the authors deepen empirical understanding of the embodied impact of participation in an organizational accelerator. Second, the authors develop a theoretical process model of suffering in an accelerator program based on time and initiation.Research limitations/implicationsThis paper focused on a single iteration of a program based out of an incubator in the United Kingdom (UK) Suffering was discovered as part of a larger study of the program.Practical implicationsBusiness and technology accelerators are becoming a popular way to organize work. This research suggests that accelerator structures might lead to unintended and negative participant experiences.Originality/valueThis research challenges the assumption that accelerators always benefit, or at least not hurt, participants. The authors add to the limited attention paid to suffering in organizations. The authors conclude the impact of an accelerator is more complex than usually portrayed.

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Section: Organizational Accelerators and Sufferingmentioning

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Suffering, recovery and participant experience in a video game development accelerator

Gidley

Palmer

Gharib

2022

JOE

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“…Expanding means for data collection and manipulation provide field researchers with new recording approaches, sophisticated databases, diverse processing techniques, and efficient transcription and translation software [38][39][40]. Concurrently, new representational possibilities afforded by computation can convey cultural meaning as a complex product constructed from multiple sources and contributions to create vivid, sensual narratives [41,42]. Computational affordances of digital media allow creators to design integrative dynamic processes that respond in correlated and co-dependent ways to the environment and each other, expressing equilibrium, which can act as a powerful narrative device [43].…”

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Okanagan Waterways Past, Present and Future: Approaching Sustainability through Immersive Museum Exhibition

Dulic,

Thorogood,

Sam

et al. 2023

Sustainability

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This paper presents Waterways Past, Present and Future, a research project and exhibition in Okanagan Syilx territory, aimed at increasing awareness of the relationship between people and water towards catalyzing sustainable water practices. The exhibition’s multi-channel audio-visual media was designed to immerse, provoke, destabilize, transform and move visitors to take responsibility for water. Drawing on many ways of knowing and doing in the creative process, the exhibition opens different entry points to the research, thus encouraging an interdisciplinary and cross-cultural audience to engage with it. Waterways’ contribution to sustainability discourse lies in its empowerment of collaborative inquiry as a way of knowing, understanding and representing our world. The epistemological dimensions of the exhibit present multiplicities embedded in the social life of water, inviting dialogues, shaping cultural narratives and developing new forms of creativity. Through the sensual process of immersion and activation of lateral thinking, the exhibition facilitates connections across cultures, connections that act as agents for social transformation. Waterways’ experiential journey transcends our personal and dominant socio-cultural patterns, reaching beyond normative structures to new creative realms shared ethical space.

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“…It inspires arts‐based research approaches by offering novel languages to speak and is, therefore, closely aligned with scholarly work in organization studies on ‘writing differently’ (e.g., Beavan et al., 2021; Gilmore et al., 2019; Mandalaki & Pérezts, 2020; Prasad, 2016; Pullen et al., 2020; van Amsterdam & van Eck, 2019). Both arts‐based approaches and ‘writing differently’ can be considered parts of a ‘creative turn’ in organization studies (Calvey, 2021).…”

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Caring about the unequal effects of the pandemic: What feminist theory, art, and activism can teach us

Mandalaki

Amsterdam

Prasad

et al. 2022

Gender Work & Organization

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At the time of writing this editorial, it has been 2 years since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. One lesson learned, perhaps more than any other, is that the pandemic is not the great equalizer some commentators had conjectured it would be (Berkhout & Richardson, 2020). The pandemic has been deadlier and more prolonged to certain populations due to underlying socio-economic inequalities (Oxfam, 2022). It is equally evident that COVID-19 will not seamlessly cease to impact the everyday lives of people around the world. Instead, it poses enduring and systemic harm, exacerbating existing inequalities and creating new ones. Research published during the heights of the pandemic illuminates the disproportionate social and physical consequences leveled against, among other

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Sensory ethnography: a creative turn

Cited by 11 publications

References 89 publications

Suffering, recovery and participant experience in a video game development accelerator

Suffering, recovery and participant experience in a video game development accelerator

Okanagan Waterways Past, Present and Future: Approaching Sustainability through Immersive Museum Exhibition

Caring about the unequal effects of the pandemic: What feminist theory, art, and activism can teach us

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