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It takes two to tango: Theorizing inter-corporeality through nakedness and eros in researching and writing organizations
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It takes two to tango: Theorizing inter-corporeality through nakedness and eros in researching and writing organizations

Emmanouela Mandalaki and Mar Pérezts
Organization, Vol.29(4), pp.596-618
01/07/2022

Abstract

Autoethnography dance eros inter-corporeality nakedness organizations
Dance with us, on the dance-floor and with words, as we reenact our individual and shared tango autoethnographic experiences to develop an understanding of field inter-corporeality as a phenomenological experience of nakedness empowered by the transformational potential of eros. We write as we dance to discuss how eroticizing through the other’s presence our embodied nakedness, beyond sexual stereotypes, pushes us to meta-reflect on ourselves as organizational ethnographers and writers to reinvent our field and writing interactions as inter-corporeally relational and intersubjective. We problematize the sexual gaze that traditionally associates nakedness with shame and objectified vulnerability to stress the capacity of eroticizing our academic nakedness to enable free, embodied knowledge stripped of the traits of the dominant masculine academic order. In so doing, we join burgeoning autoethnographic and broader debates in the field of organization studies calling for the need to further unveil the embodied, erotic, and feminine aspects of organizational research and writing. Shall we dance?
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6.3 Management
6.3.343 Organizational Theory
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