Wayfaring: A Scholarship of Possibilities or Let’s not get drunk on abstraction

I argue that our academic work is becoming increasingly normalized through the gatekeeping activities of journal editors, funding bodies, ranking systems and so on. This is resulting in a narrowing of scholarship: of methods, of theorizing and of ways in which we write our accounts. I suggest that o...

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Published in:Management (Paris, France : 1998) France : 1998), 2018-01, Vol.21 (4), p.1429-1439
Main Author: Cunliffe, Ann L
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Anthropology
Empiricism
Essays
Ethnography
Experimental psychology
Knowledge
Leadership
Organization theory
Reflexivity
Research methodology
Science
Social research
Social sciences
Society
Sociology
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Summary:I argue that our academic work is becoming increasingly normalized through the gatekeeping activities of journal editors, funding bodies, ranking systems and so on. This is resulting in a narrowing of scholarship: of methods, of theorizing and of ways in which we write our accounts. I suggest that one way of addressing the situation is to build a more pluralistic scholarship of possibilities, one that requires us to humanify ourselves and others. I draw on anthropologist Tim Ingold's notion of "wayfaring" as a metaphor for re-thinking how we might conduct our research as a scholarship of possibilities, and suggest this involves foresight, imagination and reflexivity.
ISSN:1286-4692
1286-4692
DOI:10.3917/mana.214.1429