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Poetic encounters in field work
Stockholm Business School, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden.
Jönköping University, School of Health and Welfare, HHJ, Department for Quality Improvement and Leadership. Jönköping University, School of Health and Welfare, The Jönköping Academy for Improvement of Health and Welfare.ORCID iD: 0000-0002-2428-332x
2024 (English)In: Gender, Work and Organization, ISSN 0968-6673, E-ISSN 1468-0432, Vol. 31, no 1, p. 305-318Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

In this paper, we seek to belong to the “writing differently” turn in organization studies. We argue that writing poetry when doing field work is a way of disrupting and unsettling the objective scientific gaze, the scientific ideal of experiencing the world, and of opening for the Buberian world—the world as an encounter in itself. A tension framed by Buber as I-It and I-You. Rather than merely arguing that poetry can help us understand the world differently, we argue that poetry can help us encounter the world differently. Further, by telling two field work stories, we show that poetry can help the researcher to remain human in the field. Having hope in writing poetry when doing field work transcends the more politically and individually oriented engaged ethnography, realizing that field work as encounter—I and You—holds the possibility of not only companionship, trust, mercy, cooperation, forming of joint causes, dreams but also betrayal, plundering, exploitation, and force.

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John Wiley & Sons, 2024. Vol. 31, no 1, p. 305-318
Keywords [en]
ethnography, field work, Martin Buber, poetry, writing differently
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General Literature Studies Social Sciences Interdisciplinary
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URN: urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-62806DOI: 10.1111/gwao.13074ISI: 001088107500001Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85174284777Local ID: HOA;;912914OAI: oai:DiVA.org:hj-62806DiVA, id: diva2:1808127
Available from: 2023-10-30 Created: 2023-10-30 Last updated: 2024-02-13Bibliographically approved

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