scholarly journals Feeling the Reel of the Real: Framing the Play of Critically Affective Organizational Research between Art and the Everyday

2017 ◽  
Vol 39 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 319-344 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen A. Linstead
Keyword(s):  
Close Relationships ◽  
Everyday Experience ◽  
Organization Studies ◽  
Organizational Research ◽  
Related Literature ◽  
The Real ◽  
Work Related ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Intention To Move ◽  
Cultural Texts

This article considers a number of issues hampering the application of arts-based ‘playful’ methods in organization studies once the close relationships between ethnography and aesthetic research, and the connections between art and everyday experience, are recognized. Drawing particularly from the creative ethnographies of Kathleen Stewart, Dwight Conquergood and H. L. Goodall, Jr. it suggests that the performative nature of artistic cultural texts lies in their intention to move their audience towards new sensitivities, awareness, and even learning. Critique is not oppositional to such development, being essential for fully creative movement. The article therefore suggests that what is needed are critically affective performative texts. For such texts to be socially, politically and epistemologically defensible, and thus a viable form for researchers to consider adopting, it is necessary to understand how they work to generate critical momentum, and what possible lines are available for justifying and evaluating creative approaches that challenge orthodox organizational research in being neither objective, representational nor expressive. The article outlines four ‘moments’ of critical leverage – aesthetic, poetic, ethical and political – that work in play with each other to create powerful artistic texts, and illustrates them by drawing on work-related literature, music, poetry and art, including workplace ethnographies. This framework enables the location of artistic and ‘playful’ methods epistemologically and ontologically relative to other modes of research and offers a robust justification for their further use in the field of organization studies.

Rereading Diaspora: Reverberating Voices and Diasporic Listening in Italo-Australian Digital Storytelling

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 49-62
Author(s):  
Daniella Trimboli
Keyword(s):  
Digital Storytelling ◽  
Everyday Experience ◽  
The Everyday

Abstract The contemporary diasporic experience is fragmented and contradictory, and the notion of ‘home’ increasingly blurry. In response to these moving circumstances, many diaspora and multiculturalism studies’ scholars have turned to the everyday, focussing on the local particularities of the diasporic experience. Using the Italo-Australian digital storytelling collection Racconti: La Voce del Popolo, this paper argues that, while crucial, the everyday experience of diaspora always needs to be read in relation to broader, dislocated contexts. Indeed, to draw on Grant Farred (2009), the experience of diaspora must be read both in relation to—but always ‘out of’—context. Reading diaspora in this way helps reveal aspects of diasporic life that have the potential to productively disrupt dominant assimilationist discourses of multiculturalism that continue to dominate. This kind of re-reading is pertinent in colonial nations like Australia, whose multiculturalism rhetoric continues to echo normative whiteness.

scholarly journals Timelessness Strictly Inside the Quantum Realm

Entropy ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 23 (6) ◽  
pp. 772
Author(s):  
Knud Thomsen
Keyword(s):  
Real World ◽  
Quantum Physics ◽  
Quantum Systems ◽  
The Real ◽  
Classical World ◽  
Quantum Objects ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Double Slit

Time is one of the undisputed foundations of our life in the real world. Here it is argued that inside small isolated quantum systems, time does not pass as we are used to, and it is primarily in this sense that quantum objects enjoy only limited reality. Quantum systems, which we know, are embedded in the everyday classical world. Their preparation as well as their measurement-phases leave durable records and traces in the entropy of the environment. The Landauer Principle then gives a quantitative threshold for irreversibility. With double slit experiments and tunneling as paradigmatic examples, it is proposed that a label of timelessness offers clues for rendering a Copenhagen-type interpretation of quantum physics more “realistic” and acceptable by providing a coarse but viable link from the fundamental quantum realm to the classical world which humans directly experience.

scholarly journals Gossip as evaluative sensemaking and the concealment of confidential gossip in the everyday life of organizations

2021 ◽  
pp. 135050762097936
Author(s):  
Ziyun Fan ◽  
Patrick Dawson
Keyword(s):  
Power Relations ◽  
Daily Practice ◽  
Cultural Norms ◽  
Distinct Form ◽  
Organization Studies ◽  
Learning Paradox ◽  
Espoused Values ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Scant Attention ◽  
And Behavior

Gossip is pervasive at the workplace, yet receives scant attention in the sensemaking literature and stands on the periphery of organization studies. We seek to reveal the non-triviality of gossip in processes of sensemaking. In drawing on empirical data from an observational study of a British Media firm, we adopt a processual perspective in showing how people produce, understand, and enact their sense of what is occurring through gossip as an evaluative and distinct form of informal communication. Our research draws attention to the importance of gossip in the routines of daily practice and the need to differentiate general from confidential gossip. We discuss how gossip continuously informs learning as evaluative sensemaking processes that encourages critiques and evaluation to shape future action and behavior. Within this, we argue how confidential gossip can challenge power relations while remaining part of formal authority structures, constituting forms of pragmatic and micro-resistance. This shadowland resistance provides terrain for learning that both criticizes and preserves espoused values and cultural norms. We conclude that confidential gossip as an evaluative and secretive process provokes a learning paradox that both enables and constrains forms of resistance in reinforcing and simultaneously questioning power relations at work.

Conceiving Neighbourhood in Northern Nigerian Fiction

Utafiti ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 133-153
Author(s):  
Stephen T. Ogundipe
Keyword(s):  
Real Life ◽  
Social Conditions ◽  
Religious Violence ◽  
Everyday Experience ◽  
Departure Point ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Literary Arts

Representations of neighbourhood in contemporary Northern Nigerian fiction are a departure point for scholars exploring the structures and sources of ethnic and religious violence. Using Edify Yakusak’s After They Left and Elnathan John’s Born on a Tuesday, Slavoj Zizek's analysis of the concept of neighbour is applied here, to engage theoretically with Northern Nigerian social conditions. This framework illuminates the links existing between the everyday experience of neighbourhoods in real life, and their imaginative representations in the literary arts.

Experience Sampling Methodology: A Systematic Review and Discussion for Organizational Research

2020 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ozge Can
Keyword(s):  
Data Collection ◽  
Total Duration ◽  
Experience Sampling ◽  
Workplace Relationships ◽  
Organization Studies ◽  
Organizational Research ◽  
Sampling Methodology ◽  
Experience Sampling Methodology ◽  
Current State ◽  
Methodological Aspects

In organizational research, growing attention has been given to the dynamic nature of workplace relationships and how such dynamic processes shape key behavioural outcomes. Experience sampling methodology (ESM) brings more opportunity than any other research option to examine such fluctuations and relevant causal relationships. ESM can be described as a quantitative method which allows individuals to assess discrete evaluative states on multiple events by combining three distinct elements; person, variables and occasion. Despite its increasing prevalence and popularity, however, there has been only a few attempts to investigate the most appropriate design, measurement and analysis choices for experience sampling data. Even though ESM has been utilized in organizational research for some time, systematic investigations regarding how these issues have been addressed and how the method has been applied to specific organizational topics are limited. This study provides a systematic and critical assessment of the use of ESM in current organizational research (2010‑2020) by reviewing a random sample of 50 ESM studies indexed in ISI Web of Science with the aim of identifying the current state of practice. The selected studies were analysed based on several methodological aspects including the type of ESM protocol applied, sample characteristics, data sources, specified interval and total duration of data collection, structure and properties of designated measures, analytic strategy, and the research model to be tested. Findings show that organization studies vary considerably based on how they design and implement ESM. Moreover, despite the availability of good practices, many studies fail to attain recommended standards about sample size, data collection procedures, data characteristics and measurement quality. As such, this paper offers several insights regarding how time‑based within‑person frameworks can be improved in future studies to account for dynamic organizational phenomena.

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