Resumé
Design/methodology/approach: Events and experiences related to interventions in a municipal center are presented. The study is embedded in critical diversity research and applies engaged ethnographic methods.
Findings: The researcher reflects on how interventions designed to challenge the status quo faced difficulties while considering the impact of the research entry point, efforts to mobilize organizational members in favor of a diversity agenda and the micro-politics of doing intervention-based research.
Practical implications: The study reflects on how “useful” research with an allegedly emancipatory agenda might not be considered favorable to neither majority nor minority employees. The notion of affectivity is applied to deal with the organizational members’ multi-voiced response to the change efforts, as well as how the researcher’s position as researcher-change agent critically shaped the fieldwork experiences and their interpretation.
Originality/value: Few critical diversity scholars engage with practitioners to produce “useful” research with practical implications. In doing so, this paper contributes to critical diversity methods by exploring why presumably emancipatory initiatives apparently did not succeed, despite organizational goodwill. This involves questioning the implied assumption of the inherent “good” of emancipation, as well as notions of “useful research.”
| Originalsprog | Engelsk |
|---|---|
| Tidsskrift | Qualitative Research in Organizations and Management |
| Vol/bind | 13 |
| Udgave nummer | 3 |
| Sider (fra-til) | 218-234 |
| Antal sider | 17 |
| ISSN | 1746-5648 |
| DOI | |
| Status | Udgivet - 2018 |
Emneord
- Micro-politics
- Affect
- Critical diversity
- Intervention-based etnography
- Researcher and change agent
- Useful research
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Affective Ethnography : Reflections on the Application of “Useful” Research on Workplace Diversity. / Holck, Lotte.
I: Qualitative Research in Organizations and Management, Bind 13, Nr. 3, 2018, s. 218-234.Publikation: Bidrag til tidsskrift › Tidsskriftartikel › Forskning › peer review
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