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SUMMARY:Posing Problems to Ethnography: New Objects and Matters of Concer
 n in Management and Organization
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DESCRIPTION:Ethnography is widely regarded as one of the most important m
 ethods for studying business and management\, and in recent years has be
 en identified as the fastest growing method in organization studies (Cza
 rniawska\, 2012). Both compelling and potentially transformative\, ethno
 graphy offers a unique set of resources for those interested in theoreti
 cal innovation informed by the day-to-day practical and lived experience
 s of those working in management. However\, ethnography in business and 
 management studies risks becoming intellectually moribund and anachronis
 tic unless it can respond to the ontological challenge posed by the emer
 gence of an unprecedented range of ‘objects’ and ‘subjects’ of concern t
 o management: i.e. digital code\, virtual realities\, affect\, space\, b
 ig data\, new ‘money’\, performative models of economy\, etc. This is pa
 rticularly worrying when the predominant mode of ethnography in business
  and management studies remains conceptually derivative and unreflexivel
 y ‘realist’ in its descriptive and analytical work. Where colleagues in 
 sociology and anthropology have shown greater confidence and innovation 
 in ethnographic study\, those in management still tend towards the wellw
 orn\ntropes of ‘tales from the field’.\nWe present 6 new papers in this 
 symposium from scholars that address these issues from a range of discip
 linary traditions\, some based in business schools and others working in
  the humanities and social sciences.\n\nSpeakers include:\nDr Mark Egan 
 – Engineering Affect: An Ethnography of Vibrational Science.\nProfessor 
 Penny Harvey – Collaborative Research - tales from an ethnographic proje
 ct on the Peruvian regional state.\nDr Chris Mclean - The Trials and Tri
 bulations of Participative Observation: ‘Knowing Your School’ & the role
  of data dashboards\nDr Helene Ratner – Mind the gap: Learning sociology
  from headmasters\nDr Madeleine Reeves - Reverberation and/as ethnograph
 y: on the afterlives of 'intercommunal violence\nProfessor Theo Vurdubak
 is – Spatial Effects: Data Practices\, Transparency Regimes and Environm
 ental Law Enforcement in the Brazilian Amazon\nProfessor Albena Yaneva –
  Blinded by the Sun: Cosmopolitical Experiments with Glare
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LOCATION:Room 10.05\, Harold Hankins\, Manchester Business School
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