Tales from the terrain

Marie-Astrid Le Theule (), Jean-Luc Moriceau () and Frédérique Déjean
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Marie-Astrid Le Theule: LIRSA-CRC - LIRSA. Centre de recherche en comptabilité - LIRSA - Laboratoire interdisciplinaire de recherche en sciences de l'action - CNAM - Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers [CNAM]
Jean-Luc Moriceau: IMT-BS - DEFI - Département Droit, Économie et Finances - TEM - Télécom Ecole de Management - IMT - Institut Mines-Télécom [Paris] - IMT-BS - Institut Mines-Télécom Business School - IMT - Institut Mines-Télécom [Paris]
Frédérique Déjean: LIRSA-CRC - LIRSA. Centre de recherche en comptabilité - LIRSA - Laboratoire interdisciplinaire de recherche en sciences de l'action - CNAM - Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers [CNAM]

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Abstract: Writing ethnography is about making tales, but tales often lose the sense of geography. Deleuze (1968/1994) demonstrated the limitation of thought due to its adherence to representations, and proposed a kind of geo-philosophy. In an empirical research about a Parisian theatre, we felt that such a representational rendering, the will to create "maps or representations that simplify some territory in order to facilitate action" would betray what we learned from the research. We describe our attempts to keep the savour of the terroir in writing about the case studied, and try to understand the implications for a nomadic researcher.

Keywords: Territorialization; Nomadic researcher; Terroir; Writing research (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011-07-07
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Published in EGOS : European Group for Organization Studies, Jul 2011, Gothenburg, Sweden

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