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Writing with the bitches.
- Source :
- Organization; Nov2022, Vol. 29 Issue 6, p959-978, 20p
- Publication Year :
- 2022
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Abstract
- Could the everyday affective relationships that we share with our animal companions inspire us to think, write and even care 'differently' in the field of organisation studies? In this paper, I suggest that organisational scholars have plenty to learn from post-qualitative writing and the posthumanist practice of feminist dog-writing. Drawing from literature on posthumanism, humanimal relations and post-qualitative methodology, I first frame feminist dog-writing as a practice that relies on post-qualitative writing and discuss what this framing potentially involves, in concrete terms. Second, I experiment with 'writing with the bitches' to illustrate how this kind of writing 'differently' – in ways in which the entangled co-becoming of the humanimal is highlighted in its multiplicity – could contribute to discussions of humanimal relations in the field of organisation studies and more disruptive, post-qualitative forms of writing in our scholarly field. Despite the many challenges of anthropocentric language and representation, I argue that feminist dog-writing has the capability to creatively confuse, disrupt, and transform more 'conventional', mechanical, and hu man -centred forms of academic writing. Finally, I suggest that feminist dog-writing invites human animals to engage differently with the sensate, more-than-human life-worlds that human-centred accounts of organisational life have typically sentimentalised, trivialised, or overlooked. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- FEMINISM
PETS
ACADEMIC discourse
POSTHUMANISM
PHILOSOPHERS
FEMINISTS
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 13505084
- Volume :
- 29
- Issue :
- 6
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Organization
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 159579189
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1177/1350508420961533