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Work-worlds colliding: Self-reflexivity, power and emotion in organizational ethnography
(SAGE Publications, 2014-06-26)
While organizational ethnographers have embraced the concept of self-reflexivity, problems remain. In this article we argue that the prevalent assumption that self-reflexivity is the sole responsibility of the individual ...
From gendered organizations to compassionate borderspaces: Reading corporeal ethics with Bracha Ettinger
(SAGE Publications, 2014-12-04)
In this article, we propose a new way of approaching the topic of ethics for management and organization theory. We build on recent developments within critical organization studies that focus on the question of what kind ...
Censored: Whistleblowers and impossible speech
(SAGE Publications, 2017-11-10)
What happens to a person who speaks out about corruption in their organization, and finds themselves excluded from their profession? In this article, I argue that whistleblowers experience exclusions because they have ...
Irony as discipline: Self-help and gender in the knowledge economy
(Oxford University Press, 2014-06-25)
In this article, we explore the role of self-help literature within the knowledge economy. We point to the recent growth of ironic humour within such texts, and examine how this operates to construct gendered and embodied ...
Power and the construction of independence in ICTD organizations
(Taylor & Francis, 2013-07-04)
How do powerful vested interests continue to influence ICT for development (ICTD) projects? In this paper, instead of adopting a macro-level analysis, I take an in-depth, ethnographic approach to focus on work practices ...
Organizations and violence: The child as abject-boundary in Ireland's Industrial Schools
(SAGE Publications, 2016-02-05)
What role do organizations play in the enactment of large-scale violence against a specific group of people? In this paper, I depart from existing literature that focuses on violence within organizations, and instead ...
When care is left to roam: Carers' experiences of grassroots nonprofit services in Ireland
(Elsevier, 2010-03-20)
Increasingly countries are turning to nonprofit organisations to provide health and social care, particularly for people with disabilities. Alongside this change, debates continue about how states should manage the ...
Affective disruption: Walter Benjamin and the 'history' of Ireland's industrial schools
(Taylor & Francis, 2013-02-19)
What role do organizations play in writing history? In this paper, I address the part played by organizations in the enactment of large-scale violence, and focus on the ways in which the resulting histories come to be ...
Whistleblower subjectivities: Organization and passionate attachment
(SAGE Publications, 2018-12-07)
What is the nature of whistleblower subjectivity? In this article, we depart from current scholarly depictions of this figure as a fearless truth-teller who is fully independent of the organization. We argue for a new ...
Thinking critically about affect in organization studies: Why it matters
(SAGE Publications, 2017-01-06)
Affect holds the promise of destabilizing and unsettling us, as organizational subjects, into new states of being. It can shed light on many aspects of work and organization, with implications both within and beyond ...