Curiography

Tarja Salmela and Anu Valtonen

Chapter 77 in Elgar Encyclopedia of Innovation Management, 2025, pp 293-294 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: This entry introduces curiography as an innovative, post-qualitative epistemological framework that disrupts anthropocentrism in the academic inquiry of management and organization research. Curiography helps us to become attentive to earthly relationships through curiosity, which is inherent in human nature but often overlooked in the development and reliance on rational, human-centered research methodologies. Challenging the anthropocentric legacy of ethnography, curiography encourages experimental methodologies where curiosity is practiced with politeness. Theoretical grounding for curiography lies in the intersection of feminist new materialisms and post-qualitative inquiry. This entry introduces these central theoretical foundations and discusses the implications of polite curiosity to academic inquiry by referencing the work of Donna Haraway, Vinciane Despret, and Valtonen and Salmela.

Keywords: Curiography; Curiosity; Ethnography; Post-qualitative inquiry; Feminist new materialism; Postanthrocentrism (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
ISBN: 9781035306442
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