Concept as method: ethnography in a posthumanist world

Pecis, Lara 2021. Concept as method: ethnography in a posthumanist world. Stead, V., Elliott, C. and Mavin, S., eds. Handbook of Research Methods on Gender and Management, Edward Elgar, pp. 281-294. (10.4337/9781788977937.00028)

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Abstract

This chapter introduces reflections on using concept as method in organisation and management research. Inspired by Gherardi's (2019) provocation on whether, in the context of posthumanist research, we ‘need’ gender any longer, this chapter aims at illustrating how materialities and meanings are constituted in knowledge production. In mobilising Barad' (2007) and Lenz Taguchi's (2012, 2017) theorising, I illustrate the doing of concept as method in the analysis of a piece of ethnographic work with researchers in a pharmacological institute. This is part of a larger study aimed at understanding gendering processes in innovation. In the analysis presented here, the researcher’s body and the material-discursive setting of the encounter with the interviewees and participants show the transcorporeal performance of sexual differences at work. This chapter aims at providing readers with a practical example of what a material-discursive focused approach to analysing gender dynamics in doing ethnographic work might entail.

Item Type:	Book Section
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Business (Including Economics)
Publisher:	Edward Elgar
ISBN:	9781788977920
Last Modified:	17 May 2023 13:30
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/159454

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