Writing Differently

Alison Pullen is Professor of Management and Organization Studies at Macquarie University, Australia. Alison's research focuses on analysing and intervening in the politics of work as it concerns gender discrimination, identity politics, and organizational injustice. Jenny Helin is an Associate Professor at the Department of Business Studies, Uppsala University, Sweden. Her current research projects focus on questions of dreaming and generosity. Both of them contribute to poetic understanding of organizational life. Nancy Harding is Professor of Human Resource Management at the University of Bath School of Management. Her research and teaching focuses on critical approaches to understanding organizations, focusing particularly on working lives.

Chapter 1. Introducing; Alison Pullen, Jenny Helin, Nancy Harding Chapter 2. Feminist Writing in a Gendered Transnational World: Women on the Move?; Banu Ozkazanc-Pan Chapter 3. On the Fringe/At the Fringe: Fleshing out Research; Caroline Clarke, Sandra Corlett, Charlotte, Gilmore Chapter 4. Tractor Dad: From story to a scientific text, and back; Cecilia Bjursell Chapter 5. Annotation; Deborah N. Brewis, Sarah Taylor Silverwood Chapter 6. Breaking with the masculine reckoning: An open letter to the Critical Management Studies Academy; Katie Beavan Chapter 7. When fiction meets theory: Writing with voice, resonance, and an open end; Maria Grafstroem, Anna Jonsson Chapter 8. Writing past and present classed and gendered selves; Marjana Johansson, Sally Jones Chapter 9. From Ethnography to Critical Management Studies: Facing the Street Performers' Dilemmas; Marta Polec Chapter 10. The political poetics of Mycelium; Mycelium Chapter 11. On silence and speaking out about sexual violence. An exploration through poetry; Noortje van Amsterdam Chapter 12. (Re)imagining the activist academy; Ozan Alakavukar Chapter 13. Researching through experiencing aesthetic moments: 'Sensory slowness' as my methodological strength; Suvi Satama