Sub-theme 15: (SWG) The Power of Organizational Ethnography
Convenors:
Juliette Koning, Oxford Brookes University, UK
Jana Costas, European University Viadrina, Germany
Session I: Thursday, July 07, 11:00 to 12:30, Chimica 3
Protest and Outsiders
Chair: Juliette Koning
Jenna Pandeli and Michael Marinetto
Orange-collar work: Conducting privately contracted work in prison and learning not to labour
Discussant(s)Discussant(s): Dominique Darmon
Mona Florian, Jana Costas and Dan Kärreman
Breakdowns of meaningfulness in work. Insights from voluntary work in a German refugee centre
Discussant(s)Discussant(s): Jakov Jandrić / Wendy Loretto
Maarit Laihonen
Getting criminally involved and other reflections of ethnography in a protest camp
Discussant(s)Discussant(s): Ingo Winkler
Session II: Thursday, July 07, 14:00 to 15:30, Chimica 3
Tales of Domination and Inequality
Chair: Jana Costas
Edwina Pio and Muriel Castelino
Power and secrecy: Battered South-Asian diasporic women in employment
Discussant(s)Discussant(s): Daniel Neyland and/or co-authors
Hendra Wijaya
Uncovering emotions and domination through undercover and empathetic ethnography: A confessional tale from Pentecostal churches
in urban Java
Discussant(s)Discussant(s): Sarah-Louise Weller
Hertta Vuorenmaa and Eero Vaara
GENDER INEQUALITY AND MULTILEVEL (IL)LEGITIMACY STRUGGLES: FROM ALEGITIMACY TO UNLEGITIMACY TO ILLEGITIMACY
Discussant(s)Discussant(s): Natalie Paleothodoros
Session III: Thursday, July 07, 16:00 to 17:30, Chimica 3
Round Table: Ethnography under Attack: The Case of Alice Goffman's "On the Run"
Chair: Juliette Koning & Jana Costas
Panel discussion with invited speakers: Professor Gideon Kunda (Tel Aviv University), Dr. Damian O’Doherty (Manchester Business
School, UK) and Professor Christina Carsten (Stockholm University, Sweden).
After the Round Table we will visit a local NGO in Naples that works in the field of social and environmental issues.
After the Round Table we will visit a local NGO in Naples that works in the field of social and environmental issues.
Session IV: Friday, July 08, 09:00 to 10:30, Chimica 3
Broadening the Ethnographic Lens
Chair: Jana Costas
Pam Seanor
Pla[y] ce: Creating spaces for every-day practices
Discussant(s)Discussant(s): Maarit Laihonen
Marie-Astrid Le Theule, Caroline Lambert and Jérémy Morales
The vulnerability of organizational ethnographers as a power to create visibilities: Getting access to end-of-life situations
Discussant(s)Discussant(s): Jenna Pandeli / Michael Marinetto
Christina Garsten and Adrienne Sörbom
Small places, big stakes: “Meetings” as moments of ethnographic momentum
Discussant(s)Discussant(s): Mona Florian
Session V: Friday, July 08, 14:00 to 15:30, Chimica 3
The Researcher in Ethnography
Chair: Juliette Koning
Ingo Winkler
Reflections on the power and powerlessness of autoethnographers
Discussant(s)Discussant(s): Marta Cabiati and/or co-authors
Dominique Darmon
Researching gossip: From fly on the wall to fly in the soup
Discussant(s)Discussant(s): Rita Järventie-Thesleff and/or co-authors
Sarah Langer and Andrea Fried
Compliance in the "audit society"? Creation of deviance by standards
Discussant(s)Discussant(s): Mats Alvesson
Sarah-Louise Weller
Claustrophobia and confined spaces. Power and identity work in organizational ethnography
Discussant(s)Discussant(s): Anna Brown and/or co-authors
Session VI: Saturday, July 09, 09:00 to 10:30, Chimica 3
Scholar/Practitioner Dimensions
Chair: Juliette Koning
Rita Järventie-Thesleff, Minna Mars Logemann, Rebecca Piekkari and Janne Tienari
Roles and identity work in ‘at-home’ ethnography
Discussant(s)Discussant(s): Hertta Vuorenmaa / Eero Vaara
Marta Cabiati, Silvio Ripamonti and Maura Pozzi
The double role of a scholar-practitioner in organisations: An autoethnographic approach
Discussant(s)Discussant(s): Hendra R. Wijaya
Anna Brown, Gail Greig and Emilia Ferraro
Becoming a proper potter: Apprenticeship as a way to enhance the power in organisational ethnography
Discussant(s)Discussant(s): Edwina Pio / Muriel Castelino
Session VII: Saturday, July 09, 11:00 to 12:30, Chimica 3
Delving Deeper into Organizational Ethnography
Chair: Jana Costas
Daniel Neyland, Marta Gasparin and Lucia Siu
On ethnographic economic experiments: Coming up with prices in different places
Discussant(s)Discussant(s): Christina Garsten / Adrienne Sörbom
Jakov Jandrić and Wendy Loretto
Ethnography in extraordinary contexts: The case of postgraduate management students in a UK business school
Discussant(s)Discussant(s): Marie-Astrid Le Theule and/or co-authors
Natalie Paleothodoros
Materiality and power in organizational ethnography
Discussant(s)Discussant(s): Pam Seanor
Mats Alvesson
Thick description: Some preconditions