Writing touch, writing (epistemic) vulnerability
Kaasila-Pakanen, Anna-Liisa; Jääskeläinen, Pauliina; Gao, Grace; Mandalaki, Emmanouela; Zhang, Ling Eleanor; Einola, Katja; Johansson, Janet; Pullen, Alison (2023-09-29)
John Wiley & Sons
29.09.2023
Kaasila-Pakanen, Anna-Liisa, Pauliina Jääskeläinen, Grace Gao, Emmanouela Mandalaki, Ling E. Zhang, Katja Einola, Janet Johansson, and Alison Pullen. 2023. “Writing Touch, Writing (Epistemic) Vulnerability.” Gender, Work & Organization 31(1): 264–283. https://doi.org/10.1111/gwao.13064
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© 2023 The Authors. Gender, Work & Organization published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Abstract
Touch mediates relations between self-other, writers, and readers; it is material and affective. This paper is the outcome of writing touch as a collaborative activity between eight women writers across different times and locals. In sharing experiences of touch during and beyond the pandemic, we engage with collaborative writing articulated here as colligere, involving the assembling of writing in a holding space. The meanings and feelings of touch arise from our distinct writer positionalities as we think, work, and write in and about life, research, organizations, and organizing. We suggest that writing that reflects on/through touch presents epistemic vulnerability and openness to unknowing in the nexus of intercorporeal relationships. Writing touch contributes to writing and doing academia differently, particularly by offering sensorial encounters that reframe the ethico-political conditions of academic knowledge creation.
Touch mediates relations between self-other, writers, and readers; it is material and affective. This paper is the outcome of writing touch as a collaborative activity between eight women writers across different times and locals. In sharing experiences of touch during and beyond the pandemic, we engage with collaborative writing articulated here as colligere, involving the assembling of writing in a holding space. The meanings and feelings of touch arise from our distinct writer positionalities as we think, work, and write in and about life, research, organizations, and organizing. We suggest that writing that reflects on/through touch presents epistemic vulnerability and openness to unknowing in the nexus of intercorporeal relationships. Writing touch contributes to writing and doing academia differently, particularly by offering sensorial encounters that reframe the ethico-political conditions of academic knowledge creation.
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