TY  - JOUR
AB  - Purpose This paper develops and provides insights on how researchers can use ANTi-History with a focus on one of its constitutive facets, relationalism. The purpose of this paper is to, first, develop a central facet of ANTi-History called relationalism and to outline how researchers interested in doing organizational history can use ANTi-History insights to undertake relational histories.Design/methodology/approach The authors propose four phases of the historic turn literature and situate ANTi-History and relationalism as an outcome of the fourth phase. The facet of relationalism is then explained and explored through five types of relations that the authors suggest act as sites of oscillation, where the past becomes (an immutable) history.Findings A central implication of the paper involves disrupting conceptualizations of the past and history as fixed. Instead, history is explained as a relational outcome of its constitutive social and political relationships.Originality/value The paper theoretically develops ANTi-History and relationalism while providing practical implications and tools for researchers to use it. Researchers are introduced to the notion of the site of oscillation. They are encouraged to focus their attention on five sites of oscillation: past-history, actor-network, human-nonhuman, researcher-traces of the past, and historical inscription-reading formation. These sites of oscillation are places where politics is at play and history is shaped or transformed.
VL  - 12
IS  - 1
SN  - 1746-5648
DO  - 10.1108/QROM-07-2016-1393
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1108/QROM-07-2016-1393
AU  - Durepos Gabrielle
AU  - Mills Albert J.
PY  - 2017
Y1  - 2017/01/01
TI  - ANTi-History, relationalism and the historic turn in management and organization studies
T2  - Qualitative Research in Organizations and Management: An International Journal
PB  - Emerald Publishing Limited
SP  - 53
EP  - 67
Y2  - 2024/09/22
ER  -