Alterethnography: reading and writing otherness in organizations

Daniel Ericsson and Monika Kostera ()
Additional contact information
Daniel Ericsson: Linnaeus University
Monika Kostera: UJ - Uniwersytet Jagielloński w Krakowie = Jagiellonian University = Université Jagellon de Cracovie, Södertörn University College - Södertörn University College

Post-Print from HAL

Abstract: Inspired by the alternative ethnographic tradition, the aim of this article is to contribute with an approach to organizational ethnography informed by the radical imperative to encounter and understand the Other in his/her complex otherness and difference. The approach is conceptualized in terms of alterethnography and it is outlined as a way of doing research/writing for change at odds with dominant patriarchal scientific writing orders. Illustrated by a study of creativity, written in the form of an academic postmodern detective novel fiction, alterethnography is envisioned as uncontained and disruptive, unpatriarchal and disconformist: it is an approach that transgresses the boundaries of the ego, striving to embrace otherness as togetherness.

Keywords: Alterethnography; Organizational ethnography; Otherness (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020-11
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (4)

Published in Gender, Work and Organization, 2020, 27 (6), pp.1402-1417. ⟨10.1111/gwao.12503⟩

There are no downloads for this item, see the EconPapers FAQ for hints about obtaining it.

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:hal:journl:hal-03536482

DOI: 10.1111/gwao.12503

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in Post-Print from HAL
Bibliographic data for series maintained by CCSD ().