Table of contents
Editorial for the Journal of Organizational Ethnography: Time for a new journal, a journal for new times
Matthew Brannan, Mike Rowe, Frank WorthingtonThe purpose of this paper is to provide an introduction to the new journal, its history, scope and ambitions.
Making organisational ethnography
Tony J. WatsonThe purpose of this paper is to contribute to the “manifesto” for organisational ethnography being put forward in the first issue of the Journal of Organizational Ethnography.
Being there, teleography and The Wire
Martin ParkerThe purpose of this paper is to question some of the assumptions about warm proximity which animate the idea of ethnography as a largely naturalistic mode of enquiry.
Organizational ethnography between toolbox and world‐making
Dvora YanowThe purpose of this paper is to take account of organizational ethnography in its historical and methodological context, on the occasion of the inauguration of the Journal of…
Ethnography in evolution: adapting to the animal “other” in organizations
Lindsay Hamilton, Nik TaylorTraditionally, ethnography has been well placed to take account of the messy and complex processes that produce workplace cultures. Likewise, it has always taken interest in the…
The personality of public documents: a case study in normalising Aboriginal risk
Patrick SullivanThe purpose of this paper is to explore the potential usefulness of public documents as subjects of ethnography and propose that public documents offer a way to understand modern…
“Down the rabbit hole” – “curiouser and curiouser”: Using autoethnography as a mode of writing to re‐call, re‐tell and re‐veal bodily embodiment as self‐reflexive inquiry
Caroline AllbonThe purpose of this paper is to clarify the relationship between embodiment and the experience of self, body, and work as mutual organisational relationships by focusing on the…
A historiographical account of workplace and organizational ethnography
Simon DownPurpose – The purpose of this paper is to argue that the production of past workplace and organizational ethnographies needs to be better understood in their historical context…
Organisational autoethnography
Clair Doloriert, Sally SambrookThe purpose of this paper is to review and organise the autoethnography literature: to explore the obstacles of and opportunities for autoethnography in organisation research; to…
Practising participant observation: an anthropologist's account
Gillian EvansThe purpose of this paper is to provide an anthropological viewpoint on the debate about the uses and abuses of the method of ethnography in the field of commercially‐motivated…
Having an eye for it: aesthetics, ethnography and the senses
Samantha WarrenThe purpose of this paper is to discuss participant‐led photography as a response to the author's need for an “aesthetic approach” to ethnography during fieldwork, including the…
Translating nodes of power through reflexive ethnographic writing
Jasmin MahadevanThe purpose of this paper is to show the benefit of conceptualizing reflexive ethnographic writing as translation processes across circuits of power that involve researcher, field…
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2046-6749Online date, start – end:
2012Copyright Holder:
Emerald Publishing LimitedOpen Access:
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- Dr Harry Wels