Invited Speaker Series: Being Crafty: The Significance of Craft for Research in Business and Management
When:
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Venue:
Birkbeck Main Building, Malet Street
No booking required
I explore the meaning and significance of craft for the self-understanding and development of organizational research. The construct of craft is situated in the context of its displacement by modernisation, as a practice characterized by skills that elude standardization and routinization. Consideration of research-as-craft, I suggest, speaks to, and supports, a distinctive – imaginative, embodied and being-centred – aspect and mode of management and organizational research. In unsettling and subverting knower/known and mind/body dualisms, ‘craftiness’ is of ethical and political, as well as methodological, significance.
The talk is based upon a jointly authored paper with Professor Emma Bell (Open University).
Contact name:
Louise Ross
Contact phone:
02030738133