Linstead, Stephen Andrew orcid.org/0000-0002-1006-2921 (2018) Feeling the Reel of the Real:Framing the Play of Critically Affective Organizational Research between Art and the Everyday. Organization Studies. pp. 319-344. ISSN 1741-3044
Abstract
This paper 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 recognised. 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 paper 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 paper 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 or 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.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © The Author(s) 2017. This is an author-produced version of the published paper. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher’s self-archiving policy. Further copying may not be permitted; contact the publisher for details |
Keywords: | organizational aesthetics, organizational ethnography, cultural performance, critical affectivity, performance tests, arts-based methods ,cultural performance,organizational aesthetics,performance texts,organizational ethnography,arts-based methods,critical affectivity |
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Institution: | The University of York |
Academic Units: | The University of York > Faculty of Social Sciences (York) > The York Management School |
Depositing User: | Pure (York) |
Date Deposited: | 10 May 2017 13:40 |
Last Modified: | 24 Jan 2025 00:07 |
Published Version: | https://doi.org/10.1177/0170840617717552 |
Status: | Published |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1177/0170840617717552 |
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Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:116235 |