Full Description
This text takes a new approach to autoethnography by using personal narratives to analyze our work across multiple disciplines and subdisciplines. These stories feature authors working at the intersections of autoethnography and critical theory within a given organizational context. Organizations are not simply entities, but systems of meaning. As such they are sites of cultural practices and performances, and of domination, resistance and struggle. Working at the intersection of organizational studies and autoethnography, this book explores the ability of autoethnographic and personal narrative approaches to generate important, innovative, and empowering understandings of difference, discourses, and identities, while attending to the various powerful dynamics that are at play in organizations. These are stories of work, at work, and help to finally bring theory and direct exemplars together.
Contents
Foreward
Tony E. Adams
Acknowledgements
List of Contributors
Introduction: An Autoethnography of an Organizational Autoethnography Book
Andrew F. Herrmann
Power, Emotional Labor, and Intersectional Identity at Work: I Would not Kiss my Boss but I Did not Speak Up
Katherine J. Denker
Stroking my Rifle like the Body of a Woman: A Woman's Socialization into the U.S. Army
Jeni Hunniecutt
Working on It: Family Narratives of Masculinity, Disability, and Work-Life Balance
Kurt Lindemann
Dolly, Ellie May, and Me: My Southern Appalachian Working Identity
Annalee Tull
Sensemaking in the Dialysis Clinic
Bernard J. Brommel
How Rainbow Gatherings Work: (Dis)organization in Small Acts
Kristen C. Blinne and Tenali Hrenak
Good Ol' Boys and Their Analog Networks
Alix R. Watson
Broken Promises: Psychological Contract Breach, Organizational Exit, and Occupational Change
Andrew F. Herrmann
