Ilaria Boncori - Böcker

This creative book discusses the value of poetry within the field of management and organization studies. It examines how researchers can understand poetry and incorporate it into their work, exploring ways that poetry encourages readers to defy the status quo and engage in activism.Bringing together two supposedly contrary concepts, poetry and organization, the authors highlight sensorial and feminist approaches to organization rooted in affect and embodiment. Drawing on their unique experiences, authors share their own poems and outline how these relate to organization, illustrating a poem’s capacity to be either politically inclusionary or exclusionary. Combining narrative chapters with poems, they demonstrate how the organizational dimensions of renowned poetry reflect contemporary management practices. The book invites readers to consider what constitutes ‘good’ management, using poetry to destabilize existing paradigms concerning the social and the organized. Poetry and Organizing is an invigorating read for students and academics in business studies, organization studies and literature. Its insights into working landscapes, enriched by the authors diverse international backgrounds, expertise and perspectives, will also greatly benefit researchers and practitioners in business management.

This book brings together explorations of embodied writing and contributions to the Writing Differently movement in management and organisation studies – in terms of content, style, format, and development. The introduction to the special issue discusses editing differently and the political value and potential of embodied writing in surfacing hidden, silenced, and creative dimensions of research and experiences in management and organisation studies.The chapters included in this edited volume tell a variety of stories across different contexts through poetry, movement and dance, embodied memory diaries, ethnodrama and theatre, as well as through queer listening, #tagging and relational reading practices underpinning the writing process. The editors invite us to think of, feel, and know differently not only what we do/think/write research on organising and in organisations but also how we engage in ways that do justice to the very processes of researching and writing, to the people we engage with, and to the embodied experiences discussed.This book will appeal to scholars and practitioners across management and organisation studies seeking alternative approaches to knowledge production through embodied methodologies. It serves as an essential resource for those working at the intersection of critical management studies, arts-based research, and feminist/queer/decolonial approaches, as well as educators and journal editors interested in expanding the boundaries of academic expression.

In a neoliberal academia dominated by masculine ideals of measurement and performance, it is becoming more important than ever to develop alternative ways of researching and writing. This powerful new book gives voice to non-conforming narratives, suggesting innovative, messy and nuanced ways of organizing the reading and writing of scholarship in management and organization studies. In doing so it spotlights how different methods and approaches can represent voices of inequality and reveal previously silenced topics. Informed by feminist and critical perspectives, this will be an invaluable resource for current and future scholars in management and organization studies and other social sciences.