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This last chapter will consider practical ways in which scholars who are interested in researching and writing differently can engage with it from the very beginning of their research journey. First, the chapter provides some reflection on the meaning of failure in the context of academia, researching and writing differently. Caring spaces and collective practices around writing differently are presented as ways to foster growth and community building. Practical aspects of researching and writing differently are also highlighted in relation to the experience of doctoral students and early-career researchers, starting with reflections on writing a doctoral study differently and publishing (journal articles, chapters and books). Finally, the chapter presents reflections on the impact that researching and writing differently can have on scholars themselves, before offering some concluding thoughts on the key points discussed in the book.
This chapter considers epistemological approaches that can inform researching and writing differently, and outlines some of the qualitative research methods which lend themselves to the pursuit of a Writing Differently agenda (for example, ethnography, arts-based methods, poetic and narrative inquiry, visual and performative methods). Reflections and choices around methodologies and methods are important in guiding research. As such, writing differently and, through its critiques, the establishment of positionalities around methods, and what counts as ‘scientific’ or rigorous academic research, can be seen as both methodological and political issues linked to power and inclusivity. This chapter concludes with feminist approaches to data and citation practices.
In a neoliberal academia dominated by masculine ideals of measurement and performance, it is becoming more important than ever to develop alternative ways of researching and writing.
This powerful new book gives voice to non-conforming narratives, suggesting innovative, messy and nuanced ways of organizing the reading and writing of scholarship in management and organization studies. In doing so it spotlights how different methods and approaches can represent voices of inequality and reveal previously silenced topics.
Informed by feminist and critical perspectives, this will be an invaluable resource for current and future scholars in management and organization studies and other social sciences.
While the first part of this book provided a framing background to advocate both the need for and the potential of researching and writing differently, this section will consider the many ways in which writing differently can be done with regards to the content, topics and sensibilities of academic writing. This chapter will provide an overview of Writing Differently, its various definitions and articulations. Exemplars will also be included to explore relevant conversations, with a particular focus on intersectional and interdisciplinary approaches.
This second chapter focuses on researching and writing differently as a political and feminist project and as a key to unlock positive change. In order to do so, this chapter provides a brief overview of feminism, which will then be linked specifically to management and organization studies, and articulated via examples of different currents of feminist thought and literature. In particular, Black Feminism and Queer Feminism will be considered for their inclusive and political power in challenging the status quo.
This chapter explores work in a ‘traditional’ local authority planning department that has sought to retain its in-house specialist staff alongside a long-term reputation for doing ‘good’ planning work. Latterly it has sought to ensure this by instituting a commercialisation agenda that has monetised various aspects of planners’ work. We show how this commercialisation process unfolded and reveal its tensions with planning in the public interest alongside a lack of resistance by planners, despite their identifying with a public-service ethos. The chapter highlights themes such as the public interest, the impact of austerity politics on local authorities and how planning officers work with a local authority’s elected members.
This chapter sets out the approach taken in the book, arguing for the need to explore the actual, multiple and diverse practices of planning and the similarly diverse working lives of professional planners. It introduces key changes in the environments in which planners work, including privatisation and the growth of private-sector work as well as linked initiatives to bring commercial logics into the realm of planning. It sets out debates on the purpose of planning and the public interest before outlining the ethnographic approach to data collection in the four case-study organisations.
This chapter follows planners working in a medium-sized planning consultancy. It details the commercial work at the heart of planning systems, including work for private sector clients to promote their developments as well as engagement with more strategic politics and consideration of land and development sites in a particular region. A detailed account of a planning inquiry shows the interactions between planners and other built-environment professionals as well as an asymmetry in resources between private and public sectors. The chapter shows the private sector developing extensive knowledge of regional land markets, local authorities and development cultures. It explores business development practices and networking among private-sector planners, highlighting the existence of communities of practice underpinned by ‘banter’ in which an ‘othering’ of public-sector planners was a prominent feature.
