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| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Journal | Organization Studies |
| Volume | 34 |
| Issue number | 10 |
| Pages (from-to) | 1445-1465 |
| ISSN | 0170-8406 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 2013 |
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Strangely Familiar : The Uncanny and Unsiting Organizational Analysis. / Beyes, Timon; Stayert, Chris.
In: Organization Studies, Vol. 34, No. 10, 2013, p. 1445-1465 .Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
TY - JOUR
T1 - Strangely Familiar
T2 - The Uncanny and Unsiting Organizational Analysis
AU - Beyes, Timon
AU - Stayert, Chris
PY - 2013
Y1 - 2013
N2 - This paper focuses on the aesthetics of the uncanny to inquire into and perform affective sites of organizing that are imbued with feelings of uncertainty and uneasiness. We argue that the uncanny forms an 'unconcept' that allows us to think and apprehend 'white spaces' of organization not as new or other spaces but through a process of relating intensively with the conventional places, streets and squares that form the backdrop to everyday life. We also make use of the notion of 'unsiting' to show how organizational research is able to enhance our appreciation of the aesthetic dimension of organization in ways that expose and undermine that which has become familiar and taken-for-granted. Based on an artistic intervention by the theatre collective Rimini Protokoll, we encounter and analyse such processes of unsiting through the affective and spatial doublings at work in the organization of urban space. Theorizing the organizational uncanny opens up new sites/sights in organization by forging an interconnection of the recent affective, spatial and aesthetic 'turns' in organizational theory. To do this demands what we call scholarly performances that involve the witnessing and enacting of everyday sites of organizing.
AB - This paper focuses on the aesthetics of the uncanny to inquire into and perform affective sites of organizing that are imbued with feelings of uncertainty and uneasiness. We argue that the uncanny forms an 'unconcept' that allows us to think and apprehend 'white spaces' of organization not as new or other spaces but through a process of relating intensively with the conventional places, streets and squares that form the backdrop to everyday life. We also make use of the notion of 'unsiting' to show how organizational research is able to enhance our appreciation of the aesthetic dimension of organization in ways that expose and undermine that which has become familiar and taken-for-granted. Based on an artistic intervention by the theatre collective Rimini Protokoll, we encounter and analyse such processes of unsiting through the affective and spatial doublings at work in the organization of urban space. Theorizing the organizational uncanny opens up new sites/sights in organization by forging an interconnection of the recent affective, spatial and aesthetic 'turns' in organizational theory. To do this demands what we call scholarly performances that involve the witnessing and enacting of everyday sites of organizing.
KW - Aesthetics
KW - Affect
KW - Everyday
KW - Rimini protokol
KW - Uncanny
KW - Unsiting
KW - White space
KW - Witnessing
U2 - 10.1177/0170840613495323
DO - 10.1177/0170840613495323
M3 - Journal article
VL - 34
SP - 1445
EP - 1465
JO - Organization Studies
JF - Organization Studies
SN - 0170-8406
IS - 10
ER -