Silenced bodies in academics' lives

Clavijo, Nathalie; Perray-Redslob, Ludivine

doi:10.1108/aaaj-10-2021-135

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“…This is a crisis of the digital era (Lambeir, 2002) aggravated by phenomena like the COVID-19 pandemic, fostering not only physiological numbness with trademark symptoms including the temporal loss of smell and taste 4 but also organized numbness, with touch (and hence, our embodied relationality to others, cf. Clavijo and Perray-Redslob, 2021; Plotnikof et al, 2020), being severely limited through social distancing measures. Organized numbness is then akin to a form of censorship, a taming of the body, a learned internalized desensitization occurring interrelatedly in the body, language, and knowledge.…”

Section: Organized Numbness or The Censored Sensesmentioning

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“…There is a lot to unpack here. In these lines lie the key to a door that we seldom notice, let alone walk through, but that can change how we engage with the senses, with language itself and with established ways of knowing, particularly in the field of management and organization studies (MOS) where we are in dearth need of reconnection, of unsilencing bodies, and “making them count” otherwise than in neo-liberal standards of written productivity (Clavijo and Perray-Redslob, 2021).…”

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Unlearning organized numbness through poetic synesthesia: A study in scarlet

Pérezts

2022

Management Learning

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I define “organized numbness” as the organized inability to perceive sensations, a learned desensitization operating in the way our (1) bodies, (2) language, and (3) knowledge are organized. I propose poetic synesthesia’s power to associate several sensory perceptions as a way to unlearn this sort of disembodied habituation. Inspired by the so-called “accursed” French poets of the 19th century, the “long, prodigious, and rational disorganization of all the senses” of synesthesia helps me propose a method for unlearning organized numbness. I illustrate this by “a study in scarlet,” that is, by plunging into the depths of a synesthetic exploration of blood as my “fil rouge” to infuse our working bodies with renewed sensorial and embodied—or rather “embloodied”—life. I end by discussing how cultivating poetic synesthesia can help us unlearn organized numbness in the body, in language, and in knowledge, and how it can instead respectively foster resonance by learning (1) a different embodied habituation of sensorial sensitivity, (2) a language that instead of abstracting us from the senses actually allows us to reconnect with them and to delve deeply into their combined and thereby potentiated power, and (3) an epistemological gateway to the “unknown.”

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Unlearning organized numbness through poetic synesthesia: A study in scarlet

Pérezts

2022

Management Learning

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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

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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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Silenced bodies in academics' lives

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Unlearning organized numbness through poetic synesthesia: A study in scarlet

Unlearning organized numbness through poetic synesthesia: A study in scarlet

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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