Object

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 126-132
Author(s):  
Joëlle M. Cruz
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Communication ◽  
People Of Color ◽  
Communication Studies ◽  
Embodied Experiences ◽  
Foreign Woman

Drawing on autoethnography as a genre, this letter of disapplication to the discipline of organizational communication is organized around short poems. Speaking from my positionality as a brown foreign woman of Ivorian and French heritage, I walk the reader through my experience of the walkout at the 2019 National Communication Association Organizational Communication Division's Top Paper Panel. Weaving in recent and distant pasts, I claim that this particular encounter is interconnected to other daily embodied experiences of racism, sexism, and ethnocentrism that constitute the normal for many people of color in communication studies.

The Pain of Performative Professionalism

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 140-143
Author(s):  
Angela N. Gist-Mackey
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Communication ◽  
Vantage Point ◽  
Symbolic Violence ◽  
Emotion Work ◽  
Communication Studies ◽  
Professional Perspective

This essay is the personal and professional perspective of the National Communication Association Organizational Communication Division's awards chair during the 2019 convention. It explores issues of emotion, work, professionalism, silence, embodiment, symbolic violence, and intersectional precarity from the vantage point of an outsider within the academy and the discipline of communication studies.

Scenes from the Margins

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 133-136
Author(s):  
Kathryn Joan Leslie
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Communication ◽  
White Supremacy ◽  
Professional Association ◽  
Communication Studies ◽  
Alternative Futures

The scenes in this reflection explore the ways my white, queer, nonbinary body navigates a professional association from the margins under the influence of white supremacy. I confess to shadow feelings of self-importance that continuously creep up as I engage in anti-racist work and consider how this presence of white righteousness must be relentlessly undermined and destabilized as we work to consider new and alternative futures for (organizational) communication studies.

The Institutionalization of CCO Scholarship: Trends from 2000 to 2015

2017 ◽  
Vol 31 (3) ◽  
pp. 331-355 ◽  
Author(s):  
Geneviève Boivin ◽  
Boris H. J. M. Brummans ◽  
James R. Barker
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Communication ◽  
Empirical Analysis ◽  
Communication Studies ◽  
Institutional Perspective ◽  
Organization Studies ◽  
Institutional Legitimacy ◽  
Communicative Constitution ◽  
Key Questions

This article presents an empirical analysis of the communicative constitution of organization (CCO) literature to demonstrate how, and to what extent, CCO scholarship is becoming established within organizational communication studies and related fields. We assess the trajectory of CCO research from 2000 to 2015 and, via the application of a neo-institutional perspective, show that CCO scholarship is gaining legitimacy within organizational communication and is becoming increasingly recognized in fields such as management and organization studies, although it has not focused extensively on formalizing its approaches to investigating how organizations are produced in communication. Our analysis reveals key questions and challenges that future CCO scholarship should address to strengthen its institutional legitimacy and influence.

(Re)disciplining Organizational Communication Studies

2007 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 268-280 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dennis K. Mumby ◽  
Cynthia Stohl
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Communication ◽  
Communication Studies

We Are Pilots, not Horses

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 60-87
Author(s):  
Andy Kai-chun Chuang
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Communication ◽  
Personal Narratives ◽  
Discursive Practice ◽  
Communication Studies ◽  
Work Practices ◽  
Airline Pilots ◽  
Organizational Power ◽  
Power And Resistance ◽  
Commercial Airline ◽  
Poetic Transcription

Drawing upon contributions of scholarship on power and resistance in critical organizational communication studies, this essay explores resistance as a form to shape and reinforce professionalism from Taiwanese commercial airline pilots' performed discursive practice. Interviews were conducted with Taiwanese commercial airline pilots to excavate their personal narratives, which are then presented in poetic transcription. Through the poetic transcription, this essay demonstrates Taiwanese commercial airline pilots' resistance as embodied performance of work-practices in everyday organizing; thus calling for a performative turn to study organizational power, resistance, and professionalism.

Asking, We Walk

2021 ◽  
Vol 44 (3) ◽  
pp. 31-48
Author(s):  
Thea Quiray Tagle ◽  
Lorraine Affourtit ◽  
Mirna Boyadjian ◽  
Margaretha Haughwout ◽  
Beverly Naidus ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Critical Reflection ◽  
Indigenous Communities ◽  
People Of Color ◽  
National Liberation ◽  
Activist Art ◽  
Las Casas ◽  
Ongoing Work ◽  
Embodied Experiences ◽  
Vantage Points ◽  
The City

Written collectively by six femme and queer scholars and artists, this piece is both a critical reflection and creative intervention into art residencies and Zapaturismo (political tourism) in Chiapas, Mexico. Drawing upon our embodied experiences of moving through the Lacandon jungle as part of a well-intentioned yet colonial-minded arts residency, we ruminate on the ethics, practices, and failures of solidarity between North American feminists, people of color, and queer people with Indigenous communities in Mexico under siege. We ask: what are we really searching for when we seek out the Zapatistas, and why participate in “activist art” residencies staged in the Global South? Each section of the article is a collaboratively written vignette that offers multiple vantage points to analyze our individual and collective experiences at the residency that occurred within and between three places in Chiapas: the city of San Cristobal de las Casas, a rural Zapatista Army of National Liberation (Ejército Zapatista de Liberación Nacional or EZLN) caracol, and at a cooperative on the Tonalá shore. Utilizing personal and poetic reflections along with scholarly and political frames, we summon lessons gleaned that will continue to impact our ongoing work with our respective places and communities. To truly listen to the Zapatistas, we conclude, we must take very seriously their messages to our group given in a moment of crisis, to work from our own locations and to transform our own understanding and ethics of care and collectivity.

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