Embodied Writing in Management and Organisation Studies

Preface

Ilaria Boncori, Deborah N. Brewis, Emmanouela Mandalaki and Noortje van Amsterdam

Introduction: Embodied writing

Ilaria Boncori, Deborah N. Brewis, Emmanouela Mandalaki and Noortje van Amsterdam

1. ‘Burning toda la mierda’: a schizo-affective poem

Javiera Garcia-Meneses, Giazú Enciso Domínguez and Iván Chanez-Cortés

2. Research as reach-searching from the kinesphere

Pauliina Jääskeläinen

3. Tags, tagging, tagged, # - undisciplining organ-ization of [academic] bodies

Nikki Fairchild, Carol A. Taylor, Neil Carey, Mirka Koro, Angelo Benozzo, Karin Hannes, Jo Albin-Clark, Emma Maynard, Shiva Zarabadi, Tanner Caterina-Knorr and Angeline J. Taylor

4. Readingwriting: becoming-together in a composition

Laura Jaramillo, Michela Cozza, Anette Hallin, Inti Lammi and Silvia Gherardi

5. Fire inside me – Exploring the possibilities of embodied queer listening

Bontu Lucie Guschke

6. Writing research-based theatre on aged care: the ethnodrama, After Aleppo

C. Lewis, E. Miller and S. Pike

7. Writing with silent bodies: a pandemic play in three scenes

Anke Strauß, Jerzy Kociatkiewicz and Monika Kostera

8. Cutting my dick off

Saoirse Caitlin O’Shea

9. Writing birthing bodies: exploring the entanglements between flesh and materiality in childbirth

Astrid Huopalainen and Suvi Satama

10. Poetic inquiry into the role of mentorship for marginalized migrants

Rafia Faiz

Afterword

Ilaria Boncori, Deborah N Brewis, Emmanouela Mandalaki and Noortje van Amsterdam

Biography

Ilaria Boncori is Professor of Organization Behaviour and Human Resources Management at Essex Business School, UK. Her research explores social in/justice at intersections of identity, race, body, gender, and sexuality in organisational contexts. She employs qualitative methods such as autoethnography, photoethnography, interviews, and media analysis to investigate these themes through narrative and arts-based approaches.

Deborah N. Brewis is Senior Lecturer in Organisation Studies at the University of Bath School of Management, UK. Her research spans critical diversity studies, creative methodologies, and digital labor. She examines inclusion, equality, gender and race in working life, digital identity work, and management of subjectivities.

Emmanouela Mandalaki is Associate Professor of Organizations at NEOMA Business School. In her research, Emmanouela engages with (post)qualitative and art-based methodologies which she combines with critical philosophical and sociological perspectives to explore alternative ways of engaging with questions of embodiment, ethics, gender, diversity, inclusion, social inequalities, and affect in organisations.

Noortje van Amsterdam is Associate Professor of Organization Studies at the Utrecht School of Governance, the Netherlands. She explores how power structures create inequalities across gender, dis/ability, body size, age, and race/ethnicity. Noortje employs creative methodologies including arts-based research, visual methods, and autoethnography to investigate bodily experiences and foster critical reflexivity.