Methods that Matter: Encountering Materiality and Affect in Organisations

The turn to materiality and affect enabled by new materialist and posthuman scholarship raises important questions about how we do research.

New materialism focuses attention on intra-actions between beings and other matter, including human bodies and non-human others, and the affective powers that such assemblages produce (Barad, 2007; Bennett, 2009; Braidotti, 2019).

Within this, knowledge is seen as inherently situated and perspectival and there is an emphasis on embedded and embodied relationality rather than essences. 

This workshop will be of interest to doctoral and experienced researchers in organisation studies and management, and other social sciences, who are interested in new materialism and affect.

The invited speakers will discuss how they have responded to the opportunities and challenges of studying materiality and affect in their own research.

This event is organised by the BAM Research Methods Special Interest Group in collaboration with The Open University.

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Speakers

• Nick J. Fox, University of Huddersfield, ‘Materialist micropolitics, dis/organisation and the research assemblage’
• Silvia Gherardi, University of Trento, ‘Can we trail the sociomaterial traces of affect?’
• Kate Kenny, NUI Galway, ‘From subjectivity to materiality: Speaking out and digital affect culture’
• Noortje van Amsterdam, Utrecht University, ‘Writing as an affective and embodied research practice’

References

• Barad, K. (2007) Meeting the universe halfway. Durham (NC): Duke University Press
• Bennett, J. (2010) Vibrant matter. Durham: Duke University Press
• Braidotti, R. (2019) Posthuman knowledge. Cambridge: Polity Press

Short paper submission details 

The deadline for submitting a short paper has now closed.  

Event fee

• BAM Doctoral Student Members – no charge (maximum 10 places; you must submit a short paper relevant to the workshop in order to qualify for a free place)
• BAM Members and non-BAM Doctoral Students - £30
• Non-BAM Members - £50

Contact

For general queries about the event, please contact BAM.

For queries relating to the venue, please contact The Open University.