Embodied Writing in Management and Organisation Studies

Ilaria Boncori is Professor of Organization Behaviour and Human Resources Management at Essex Business School, UK. Her research explores social in/justice at intersections of identity, race, body, gender, and sexuality in organisational contexts. She employs qualitative methods such as autoethnography, photoethnography, interviews, and media analysis to investigate these themes through narrative and arts-based approaches.Deborah N. Brewis is Senior Lecturer in Organisation Studies at the University of Bath School of Management, UK. Her research spans critical diversity studies, creative methodologies, and digital labor. She examines inclusion, equality, gender and race in working life, digital identity work, and management of subjectivities.Emmanouela Mandalaki is Associate Professor of Organizations at NEOMA Business School. In her research, Emmanouela engages with (post)qualitative and art-based methodologies which she combines with critical philosophical and sociological perspectives to explore alternative ways of engaging with questions of embodiment, ethics, gender, diversity, inclusion, social inequalities, and affect in organisations.Noortje van Amsterdam is Associate Professor of Organization Studies at the Utrecht School of Governance, the Netherlands. She explores how power structures create inequalities across gender, dis/ability, body size, age, and race/ethnicity. Noortje employs creative methodologies including arts-based research, visual methods, and autoethnography to investigate bodily experiences and foster critical reflexivity.

• Preface Introduction: Embodied writing 1. ‘Burning toda la mierda’: a schizo-affective poem 2. Research as reach-searching from the kinesphere 3. Tags, tagging, tagged, # - undisciplining organ-ization of [academic] bodies 4. Readingwriting: becoming-together in a Composition 5. Fire inside me – Exploring the possibilities of embodied queer listening 6. Writing research-based theatre on aged care: the ethnodrama, After Aleppo 7. Writing with silent bodies: a pandemic play in three scenes 8. Cutting my dick off 9. Writing birthing bodies: exploring the entanglements between flesh and materiality in childbirth 10. Poetic inquiry into the role of mentorship for marginalized migrants Afterword