The elephant in the room: Critical management studies conferences as a site of body pedagogics

Management Learning

Volumn 41, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 429-442

  Bell, Emma ^a   King, Daniel ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXETER BUSINESS SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b NOTTINGHAM TRENT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Autoethnography; conferences; critical management studies; embodiment; power

Indexed keywords

EID: 77956103749     PISSN: 13505076     EISSN: 14617307     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1350507609348851     Document Type: Article

References (72)

1. Aalten, A. (2007) Listening to the Dancer's Body, in C. Shilling (ed.) Embodying Sociology: Retrospect, Progress and Prospects, pp. 109-25. Oxford: Blackwell/ Sociological Review.
2. Alvesson, M. (2003) Methodology for Close Up Studies: Struggling with Closeness and Closure, Higher Education 46(2): 167-93.
3. Alvesson, M. and Sköldberg, K. (2000) Reflexive Methodology: New Vistas for Qualitative Research. London: Sage.
4. Becher, T. and Trowler, P. (1989) Academic Tribes and Territories: Intellectual Enquiry and the Cultures of Disciplines. Milton Keynes: Society for Research into Higher Education/Open University Press.
5. Blaxter, L., Hughes, C. and Tight, M. (1998) The Academic Career Handbook. Buckingham: Open University Press.
6. Brannick, T. and Coghlan, D. (2007) In Defense of Being Native: The Case for Insider Academic Research, Organizational Research Methods 10(1): 59-74.
7. Burrell, G. (1993) Eco and the Bunnymen, in J. Hassard and M. Parker (eds) Postmodernism and Organization, pp. 71-82. London: Sage.
8. Butterwick, S. and Dawson, J. (2005) Undone Business: Examining the Production of Academic Labour, Women's Studies International Forum 28(1): 51-65.
9. Casey, C. (1995) Work, Self and Society: After Industrialism. London: Routledge.
10. Caulley, D.N. (2008) Making Qualitative Research Reports Less Boring: The Techniques of Writing Creative Non-Fiction, Qualitative Inquiry 14(3): 424-49.
11. Clegg, S., Kornberger, M., Carter, C. and Rhodes, C. (2006) For Management?, Management Learning 37(1): 7-27.
12. Cockburn, C. (1988) Masculinity, the Left and Feminism, in R. Chapman and J. Rutherford (eds) Male Order: Unwrapping Masculinity, pp. 303-29. London: Lawrence and Wishart.
13. Coffey, A. (1999) The Ethnographic Self: Fieldwork and the Representation of Identity. London: Sage.
14. Collinson, D. (1992) Managing the Shopfloor: Subjectivity, Masculinity and Workplace Culture. New York: Walter de Gruyter.
15. Davies, B., Browne, J., Gannon, S., Honan, E. and Somerville, M. (2005) 'Embodied Women at Work in Neoliberal Times and Places', Gender, Work and Organization 12(4): 343-62.
16. Edenius, M. and Yakhlef, A. (2007) Space, Vision and Organizational Learning: The Interplay of Incorporating and Inscribing Practices, Management Learning 38(2): 193-210.
17. Ellis, C. (2004) The Ethnographic I: A Methodological Novel About Autoethnography. Walnut Creek CA: Alta Mira Press.
18. Ellis, C. (2007) Telling Secrets, Revealing Lives: Relational Ethics in Research With Intimate Others, Qualitative Inquiry 13(1): 3-29.
19. Ellis, C. and Bochner, A.P. (1992) Telling and Performing Personal Stories: The Constraints of Choice in Abortion, in C. Ellis and M. Flaherty (eds) Investigating Subjectivity: Research on Lived Experience, pp. 79-101. Newbury Park, CA: Sage.
20. Ellis, C. and Bochner, A.P. (2000) Autoethnography, Personal Narrative, Reflexivity: Researcher as Subject, in N. Denzin and Y. Lincoln (eds) Handbook of Qualitative Research, pp. 733-68. London: Sage.
21. Fay, B. (1987) Critical Social Science. Cambridge: Polity Press.
22. Ford, J. and Harding, N. (2008) Fear and Loathing in Harrogate, or a Study of a Conference, Organization 15(2): 233-50.
23. Ford, J. and Harding, N. (forthcoming) 'Get Back into that Kitchen Woman: Management Conferences and the Making of the Female Professional Worker', Gender, Work and Organization. Prepublished September 30, 2009. DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0432.2009.00476.x.
24. Fournier, V. and Grey, C. (2000) At the Critical Moment: Conditions and Prospects for Critical Management Studies, Human Relations 53(1): 7-32.
25. Fulop, L. (2002) Practising What You Preach: Critical Management Studies and its Teaching, Organization 9(3): 428-36.
26. Gagliardi, P. (1990) Symbols and Artifacts: View of the Corporate Landscape. New York: Aldine de Gruyter.
27. Garfinkel, H. (1967) Studies in Ethnomethodology. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall.
28. Gilligan, C. (1982) In a Different Voice. Cambridge, MA.: Harvard University Press.
29. Goffman, E. (1961) Asylums. Garden City, NJ: Anchor Books.
30. Goffman, E. (1971) The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life. London: Penguin.
31. Goffman, E. (1972) Interaction Ritual. London: Penguin.
32. Grosz, E. (1994) Volatile Bodies: Toward a Corporeal Feminism. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press.
33. Halford, S. and Leonard, P. (2006) Negotiating Gendered Identities at Work: Place, Space and Time. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
34. Hayano, D. (1979) Auto-Ethnography: Paradigms, Problems and Prospects, Human Organization 38(1): 99-104.
35. Humphreys, M. (2005) Getting Personal: Reflexivity and Autoethnographic Vignettes, Qualitative Inquiry 11(6): 840-60.
36. Humphreys, M. and Learmonth M. (2009) Public Sector Management? But We're Academics, We Don't Do That Sort of Thing!, in G. Currie, J. Ford, N. Harding and M. Learmonth (eds) Public Sector Management: A Critical Approach. London: Routledge (in press).
37. Irigaray, L. (2007) Je, Tu, Nous: Toward a Culture of Difference. London: Routledge.
38. Kleinman, S. (1996) Opposing Ambitions: Gender and Identity in an Alternative Organization. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press.
39. Knights, D. (2006) Authority at Work: Reflections and Recollections, Organization Studies 27(5): 699-720.
40. Knights, D. and Thanem, T. (2005) Embodying Emotional Labour, in D. Morgan, B. Brandth and E. Kvande (eds) Gender, Bodies and Work, pp. 31-43. Aldershot: Ashgate.
41. Kunda, G. (1992) Engineering Culture: Control and Commitment in a High-Tech Corporation. Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press.
42. Lande, B. (2007) Breathing Like a Soldier: Culture Incarnate, in C. Shilling (ed.) Embodying Sociology: Retrospect, Progress and Prospects, pp. 95-108. Oxford: Blackwell/ Sociological Review.
43. Lodge, D. (1985) Small World: An Academic Romance. London: Penguin Books.
44. McCloskey, D. (1999) Crossing: A Memoir. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press.
45. McDowell, L. (1997) Capital Culture: Gender at Work in the City. Oxford: Blackwell.
46. Martin, J.E. (2000) Coming of Age in Academe: Rekindling Women's Hopes and Reforming the Academy. New York: Routledge.
47. New, C. and Fleetwood, S. (2006) Gender at Critical Realism Conferences, Journal of Critical Realism 5(1): 61-91.
48. O'Connor, E. (2007) Embodied Knowledge in Glassblowing: The Experience of Meaning and the Struggle Towards Proficiency, in C. Shilling (ed.) Embodying Sociology: Retrospect, Progress and Prospects, pp. 126-41. Oxford: Blackwell/ Sociological Review.
49. Owen, H. (2008) Open Space Technology: A User's Guide. San Francisco, CA: Berrett-Koehler.
50. Parker, M. (2002) Against Management: Organization in the Age of Managerialism. Cambridge: Polity Press.
51. Pelias, R.J. (2005) Performative Writing as Scholarship: An Apology, an Argument, an Anecdote, Cultural Studies, Critical Methodologies 5(4): 415-24.
52. Reedy, P. (2008) Mirror, Mirror, on the Wall: Reflecting on the Ethics and Effects of a Collective Critical Management Studies Identity Project, Management Learning 39(1): 57-72.
53. Reynolds, M. (1999) Grasping the Nettle: Possibilities and Pitfalls of a Critical Management Pedagogy, British Journal of Management 10(2): 171-84.
54. Reynolds, M. and Trehan, K. (2001) Classroom as Real World: Propositions for a Pedagogy of Difference, Gender and Education 13(4): 91-109.
55. Riemer, J. (1977) Varieties of Opportunistic Research, Urban Life 5: 467-77.
56. Rowlinson, M. and Hassard, J. (2008) How come the Critters Came to be Teaching in Business Schools? Sociology, Politics and Punk Rock, Critical Management Studies Seminar Series, February, Manchester.
57. Rugg, G. and Petre, M. (2004) The Unwritten Rules of PhD Research. Maidenhead: Open University Press.
58. Shilling, C. (2007) Sociology and the Body: Classical Traditions and New Agendas, in C. Shilling (ed.) Embodying Sociology: Retrospect, Progress and Prospects, pp. 1-18, Oxford: Blackwell/ Sociological Review.
59. Showalter, E. (2005) Faculty Towers: The Academic Novel and its Discontents. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Spicer, A. (2005) 'Conferences', in C. Jones and D. O'Doherty (eds) Manifestos for the Business School of Tomorrow, pp. 21-7. Abo, Finland: Dvalin Books.
60. Spicer, A., Alvesson, M. and Kärreman, D. (2009) 'Critical Performativity: The Unfinished Business of Critical Management Studies', Human Relations 62(4): 537-60.
61. Spradley, J.P. and McCurdy, D.W. (1973) The Cultural Experience: Ethnography in Complex Society. Chicago, IL: Science Research Associates.
62. Stanley, J. (1995) Pain(t) for Healing: The Academic Conference and the Classed/Embodied Self, in L. Morley and V. Walsh (eds) Feminist Academics: Creative Agents for Change, pp. 169-82. London: Taylor & Francis.
63. Van Maanen, J. (1988) Tales of the Field: On Writing Ethnography. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press.
64. Wacquant, L. (2005) Carnal Connections: On Embodiment, Apprenticeship and Membership, Qualitative Sociology 28(4): 445-74.
65. Walsh, J.P. and Weber, K. (2002) The Prospects for Critical Management Studies in the American Academy of Management, Organization 9(3): 402-10.
66. Watson, T. (1994) In Search of Management: Culture, Chaos and Control in Managerial Work. London: Routledge.
67. Weber, M. (1917) The Vocation Lectures: Science as a Vocation, Politics as a Vocation. Indianapolis, IN: Hackett Publishing.
68. Wolf, P. and Troxler, P. (2008) The Proof of the Pudding is in the Eating-but What was the Pudding in the First Place? A Proven Unconferencing Approach in Search of its Theoretical Foundations, FQS Forum: Qualitative Social Research 9(2) Art. 61.
69. Worthington, F. and Hodgson, J. (2005) Academic Labour and the Politics of Quality in Higher Education: A Critical Evaluation of the Conditions and Possibility of Resistance, Critical Quarterly 47(1-2): 96-110.
70. Wray-Bliss, E. (2003) Research Subjects/Research Subjections: Exploring the Ethics and Politics of Critical Research, Organization 10(2): 307-25.
71. Wray-Bliss, E. (2004) A Right to Respond? Monopolisation of 'Voice' in CMS, Ephemera 4(2): 101-20.
72. Zerubavel, E. (2006) The Elephant in the Room; Silence and Denial in Everyday Life. Oxford: Oxford University Press.