Description
This book explores the meaning and practice of empowering methodologies in organisational and social research.
In a context of global academic precarity, this volume explores why empowering research is urgently needed. It discusses the situatedness of knowing and knowledge in the context of core-periphery relations between the global North and South. The book considers the sensory, affective, embodied practice of empowering research, which involves listening, seeing, moving and feeling, to facilitate a more diverse, creative and crafty repertoire of research possibilities. The essays in this volume examine crucial themes including:
· How to decolonise management knowledge
· Using imaginative, visual and sensory methods
· Memory and space in empowering research
· Empowerment and feminist methodologies
· The role of reflexivity in empowering research
By bringing postcolonial perspectives from India, the volume aims to revitalise management and organisation studies for global readers. This book will be useful for scholars and researchers of management studies, organisational behaviour, research methodology, development studies, social sciences in general and gender studies and sociology.
Table of Contents
1. Empowering methodologies in organisational and social research
Emma Bell and Sunita Singh Sengupta
2. Decolonising management knowledge and research: Reflections on knowledge, processes and actors
Emanuela Girei and Loice Natukunda
3. A decolonial feminist ethnography: Empowerment, ethics and epistemology
Jennifer Manning
4. Vulnerability as praxis in studying social suffering
Devi Vijay
5 .Drawing one’s lifeworld: A methodological technique for researching bullied child workers
Premilla D’Cruz, Ernesto Noronha, Saikat Chakraborty and Muneeb Ul Lateef Banday
6. Creative memory, methodology, and the postcolonial imagination
Jasmine Hornabrook, Clelia Clini and Emily Keightley
7. Drawing together, thinking apart: Reflecting on our use of visual participatory research methods
Divya Patel and Lauren McCarthy
8. Autoethnography and personal experience as an epistemic resource
Srinath Jagannathan and Premalatha Packirisamy
9. Affective, embodied experiences of doing fieldwork in India: A feminist’s perspective
Nita Mishra
10. From doing, to writing, to being in research
Amanda Sinclair
