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Feeling clumsy and curious. A collective reflection on experimenting with poetry as an unconventional method

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  • Noortje van Amsterdam
  • Dide van Eck

    (KU Leuven - Catholic University of Leuven = Katholieke Universiteit Leuven)

  • Katrine Meldgaard Kjær
  • Margot Leclair

    (LEST - Laboratoire d'Economie et de Sociologie du Travail - AMU - Aix Marseille Université - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique)

  • Anne Theunissen
  • Maryse Tremblay
  • Alistair Thomson
  • Ana Paula Lafaire
  • Anna Brown
  • Camilla Quental
  • Marjan de Coster

    (KU Leuven - Catholic University of Leuven = Katholieke Universiteit Leuven)

  • Alison Pullen

Abstract

In this paper, we offer a collective, multi-vocal reflection on using poetry for research purposes. These were reflections on an online sub-plenary session organized as a workshop, which was held at the European Group for Organization Studies conference in 2021. During this workshop, the first three authors presented a step-by-step method for doing poetic inquiry and invited participants to apply it to their own empirical data or research praxis. The method was created in response to the marginalization of affect and embodiment in mainstream research in organization studies. Poetic inquiry aims to formulate specific practices of "writing differently" that assist researchers in their attempts to analyze and articulate their findings in embodied and affective ways. In this paper, we describe the method and bring together multi-vocal reflections from the participants and organizers of the workshop on the affects of poetic inquiry and the (ethical) questions that it poses.

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  • Noortje van Amsterdam & Dide van Eck & Katrine Meldgaard Kjær & Margot Leclair & Anne Theunissen & Maryse Tremblay & Alistair Thomson & Ana Paula Lafaire & Anna Brown & Camilla Quental & Marjan de Cos, 2023. "Feeling clumsy and curious. A collective reflection on experimenting with poetry as an unconventional method," Post-Print hal-04006035, HAL.
    • Handle: RePEc:hal:journl:hal-04006035
    DOI: 10.1111/gwao.12964
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    1. Line Henriksen & Katrine Meldgaard Kjær & Marie Blønd & Marisa Cohn & Baki Cakici & Rachel Douglas‐Jones & Pedro Ferreira & Viktoriya Feshak & Simy Kaur Gahoonia & Sunniva Sandbukt, 2022. "Writing bodies and bodies of text: Thinking vulnerability through monsters," Gender, Work and Organization, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 29(2), pages 561-574, March.
    2. Dide van Eck & Noortje van Amsterdam & Marieke van den Brink, 2021. "Unsanitized writing practices: Attending to affect and embodiment throughout the research process," Gender, Work and Organization, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 28(3), pages 1098-1114, May.
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