TY  - CHAP
AB  - Abstract How do we write from the sensory body in ways that can convey the lived experience of the researcher and the researched, which can allow other researchers to make sense of their lived experience as well? What alternative writings could transform disembodied academia through dialogue and relational reflection? The aim of this chapter is to reflect on the value of the researcher’s embodied reflexivity in academic writing. More specifically, this chapter explores the ways in which we can write differently about organisational phenomena by experiencing aesthetic moments in the field. To accomplish this, I share examples of the aesthetic moments that I, as a researcher, experienced while undertaking three ethnographic projects: a study on professional dance, a study on academic motherhood and a study on female-canine companionship. This chapter identifies three aspects that allow the researcher to experience aesthetic moments – namely, appreciating sensory cues, writing ‘in and from the flesh’ and allowing vulnerability to flourish. Paying attention to the social micro-dynamics that exist between researchers and research phenomena and addressing the analytically marginalised experiences of researchers, therefore, allows for developing academic writing practices in more reflexive and sensory-appreciative directions.
VL  - 4
SN  - 978-1-83867-337-6, 978-1-83867-338-3/2046-6072
DO  - 10.1108/S2046-607220200000004013
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1108/S2046-607220200000004013
AU  - Satama Suvi
ED  - Alison Pullen
ED  - Jenny Helin
ED  - Nancy Harding
PY  - 2020
Y1  - 2020/01/01
TI  - Researching through experiencing aesthetic moments: ‘Sensory slowness’ as my methodological strength
T2  - Writing Differently
T3  - Dialogues in Critical Management Studies
PB  - Emerald Publishing Limited
SP  - 209
EP  - 230
Y2  - 2024/04/19
ER  -