Abstract
Recognizing that humans inhabit Earth with multiple others and that humans have worsened opportunities for life on Earth calls for a reassessment of the research practices through which the world is explored. The development of more-than-human methodologies is underway, as reflected in the emergence of more-than-human or multispecies ethnographies. However, leaning on ethnography as a methodological approach easily leads to the perpetuation of a human-centric worldview and directs scholars towards the conventional methods and views of scientific activity. We introduce curiography as an alternate mode of engaging with earthly relations, in a response-able and polite way. Curiography, stemming from curiosity, is a process of knowledge co-constitution valuing sensitivity, literal engagements, openness, politeness, and listening. It situates itself at the crossroads of post-qualitative and post-anthropocentric inquiry and is informed by relational ontology. This chapter explores, what happens when theorizing, knowing, and knowers are considered in the spirit of curiography?
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | A research agenda for Organization Studies, Feminisms and New Materialisms |
| Editors | Marta Calas, Linda Smirchich |
| Place of Publication | Cheltenham |
| Publisher | Edward Elgar |
| Chapter | 7 |
| Pages | 141-159 |
| Number of pages | 19 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 978-1-80088-127-3 |
| ISBN (Print) | 978-1-80088-126-6 |
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| Publication status | Published - 2023 |
| MoEC publication type | A3 Part of a book or another research book |
Field of science
- Business and management