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Curiography

Tarja Salmela, Anu Valtonen

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Abstract

This entry introduces curiography as an innovative, post-qualitative epistemological framework that disrupts anthropocentrism in the academic inquiry of management and organization research. Curiography helps us to become attentive to earthly relationships through curiosity, which is inherent in human nature but often overlooked in the development and reliance on rational, human-centered research methodologies. Challenging the anthropocentric legacy of ethnography, curiography encourages experimental methodologies where curiosity is practiced with politeness. Theoretical grounding for curiography lies in the intersection of feminist new materialisms and post-qualitative inquiry. This entry introduces these central theoretical foundations and discusses the implications of polite curiosity to academic inquiry by referencing the work of Donna Haraway, Vinciane Despret, and Valtonen and Salmela.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationElgar Encyclopedia of Innovation Management
EditorsPäivi Eriksson, Tero Montonen, Pikka-Maaria Laine, Anna Hannula
Place of PublicationCheltenham
PublisherEdward Elgar
Chapter77
Pages293-294
Number of pages2
ISBN (Electronic)978-1-0353-0645-9
ISBN (Print)978-1-0353-0644-2
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 15 May 2025
MoEC publication typeD2 Article in professional manuals or guides or professional information systems or text book material

Publication series

SeriesElgar Encyclopedias in Business and Management

Keywords

  • methodology
  • curiosity
  • research methods
  • ethnography
  • feminist theory
  • new materialism
  • curiography

Field of science

  • Business and management
  • Methodology

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