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Constructing a ‘Different’ Strength: A Feminist Exploration of Vulnerability, Ethical Agency and Care
(2023-05) Johansson, Janet; Wickström, Alice
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This article explores how ethical agency, as ‘other-oriented’ caring, emerged from feelings of being ‘different’ in a cultural organization by drawing on feminist ethics of care. By analyzing interview material from an ethnographic study, we centralize the relationship between feelings of being ‘different,’ vulnerability and the development of sensibilities, practices and imaginaries of care. We elaborate on how vulnerability serves as a ground for caring with rather than for others, and illustrate how it allowed individuals to challenge both organizational, normative diversity discourses and essentialization of differences. We contribute to the literature on critical diversity management by furthering problematizations of instrumental diversity management from the perspective of care, and to the organizational literature on feminist care ethics by empirically exploring how ethical agency emerges from tensions related to feeling ‘different.’ While previous studies have shown how marginalized individuals use their sense of ‘otherness’ to negotiate, conform to and resist organizational norms, practices and discourses, we provide further insights on how it also can drive concern and care for others, and thus serve as possible ground for ethical change initiatives within organizations.
Writing resistance together
(2020-07-01) Ahonen, Pasi; Blomberg, Annika; Doerr, Katherine; Einola, Katja; Elkina, Anna; Gao, Grace; Hambleton, Jennifer; Helin, Jenny; Huopalainen, Astrid; Johannsen, Bjørn Friis; Johansson, Janet; Jääskeläinen, Pauliina; Kaasila-Pakanen, Anna Liisa; Kivinen, Nina; Mandalaki, Emmanouela; Meriläinen, Susan; Pullen, Alison; Salmela, Tarja; Satama, Suvi; Tienari, Janne; Wickström, Alice; Zhang, Ling Eleanor
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This piece of writing is a joint initiative by the participants in the Gender, Work and Organization writing workshop organized in Helsinki, Finland, in June 2019. This is a particular form of writing differently. We engage in collective writing and embody what it means to write resistance to established academic practices and conventions together. This is a form of emancipatory initiative where we care for each other as writers and as human beings. There are many author voices and we aim to keep the text open and dialogical. As such, this piece of writing is about suppressed thoughts and feelings that our collective picket line allows us to express. In order to maintain the open-ended nature of the text, and perhaps also to retain some ‘dirtiness’ that is essential to writing, the article has not been language checked throughout by a native speaker of English.