Tuning into Things: Sensing the Role of Place in an Emerging Alternative Urban Community
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The Oxford Handbook of Phenomenologies and Organization Studies. ed. / François-Xavier de Vaujany; Jeremy Aroles; Mar Pérezts. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023. p. 508-521.
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TY - CHAP
T1 - Tuning into Things
T2 - Sensing the Role of Place in an Emerging Alternative Urban Community
AU - Cnossen, Boukje
N1 - Publisher Copyright: © Oxford University Press 2023. All rights reserved.
PY - 2023/1/26
Y1 - 2023/1/26
N2 - This chapter introduces a specific phenomenological approach in a suggestion to sense organizing as a productive encounter between a place and its potential futures. In particular, it draws on the work of the anthropologist Kathleen Stewart to propose a ‘sensing’ approach to tune in to the role of place in the emergence of an alternative urban community of entrepreneurs and activists. While the field of management and organization studies (MOS) has been experiencing a very vibrant spatial turn, so far scholarship in this area has been focusing mostly on the ‘here and now’ of spaces and places. This has a lot to do with the specific epistemological commitments of MOS, including a realist focus in the field of organizational ethnography. This chapter suggests that a focus on what can be seen only goes so far, and that research on new or emergent organizations needs tools in order to sense the not-yet-there, and that this requires an affective attention that moves beyond the visual. The case presented, based on a field visit to an alternative urban community in the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic, offers insights into how such early-stage organizing can be seen sensed through an attention to things in a certain place, and how they are named and cared for.
AB - This chapter introduces a specific phenomenological approach in a suggestion to sense organizing as a productive encounter between a place and its potential futures. In particular, it draws on the work of the anthropologist Kathleen Stewart to propose a ‘sensing’ approach to tune in to the role of place in the emergence of an alternative urban community of entrepreneurs and activists. While the field of management and organization studies (MOS) has been experiencing a very vibrant spatial turn, so far scholarship in this area has been focusing mostly on the ‘here and now’ of spaces and places. This has a lot to do with the specific epistemological commitments of MOS, including a realist focus in the field of organizational ethnography. This chapter suggests that a focus on what can be seen only goes so far, and that research on new or emergent organizations needs tools in order to sense the not-yet-there, and that this requires an affective attention that moves beyond the visual. The case presented, based on a field visit to an alternative urban community in the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic, offers insights into how such early-stage organizing can be seen sensed through an attention to things in a certain place, and how they are named and cared for.
KW - affect
KW - anthropology
KW - arts
KW - entrepreneurship
KW - ethnography
KW - fieldwork
KW - place
KW - post-phenomenology
KW - sensing
KW - Stewart
KW - Management studies
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85153645848&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780192865755.013.27
DO - 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780192865755.013.27
M3 - Chapter
AN - SCOPUS:85153645848
SN - 9780192865755
SP - 508
EP - 521
BT - The Oxford Handbook of Phenomenologies and Organization Studies
A2 - de Vaujany, François-Xavier
A2 - Aroles, Jeremy
A2 - Pérezts, Mar
PB - Oxford University Press
CY - Oxford
ER -