![]() ![]() Reflecting on our dancing field experiences, we suggest that it is precisely this intense inter-corporeal experience of “nakedness” that makes theorizing possible, and that this must inform our writing. As we will argue, Me-Field encounters strip off the armours of our objectified researchers’ embodied selves and intentions, making us feel “naked”. For several months, we knew each other only through our virtual texts until we finally met at the 2018 LAEMOS conference and danced together in Buenos Aires. Shortly after being introduced via email by a mutual friend and colleague, we started exchanging diaries of our autoethnographic, often very personal, dancing experiences, partly transcribed below as italicized dialogs of our overseas correspondence. Just like us, Emmanouela and Mar, two academics, whose passion for dance bridged the ocean separating our bodies, pushing us to share the keyboard and write this paper. Just like two partners in a tango, who move together, sometimes tread on each other’s feet, improvising and co-creating an unrepeatable dance. “Me” will venture into “the field”, and the two will somehow be united for a parenthesis in space and time to share unpredictable encounters that will inevitably affect both. We try to take on the dramatis persona of “the researcher” or “the ethnographer”, in the field and in our scientific accounts, but behind such rational methodological masks lies an embodied and relational experience ( Thanem and Knights, 2019). In social science research, and particularly in immersive ethnographic methodologies, there is “the field” and there is “me”. In so doing, we join burgeoning autoethnographic and broader debates in the field of organization studies calling for the need to further unveil the embodied, erotic, and feminine aspects of organizational research and writing. We problematize the sexual gaze that traditionally associates nakedness with shame and objectified vulnerability to stress the capacity of eroticizing our academic nakedness to enable free, embodied knowledge stripped of the traits of the dominant masculine academic order. We write as we dance to discuss how eroticizing through the other’s presence our embodied nakedness, beyond sexual stereotypes, pushes us to meta-reflect on ourselves as organizational ethnographers and writers to reinvent our field and writing interactions as inter-corporeally relational and intersubjective. All subjects Allied Health Cardiology & Cardiovascular Medicine Dentistry Emergency Medicine & Critical Care Endocrinology & Metabolism Environmental Science General Medicine Geriatrics Infectious Diseases Medico-legal Neurology Nursing Nutrition Obstetrics & Gynecology Oncology Orthopaedics & Sports Medicine Otolaryngology Palliative Medicine & Chronic Care Pediatrics Pharmacology & Toxicology Psychiatry & Psychology Public Health Pulmonary & Respiratory Medicine Radiology Research Methods & Evaluation Rheumatology Surgery Tropical Medicine Veterinary Medicine Cell Biology Clinical Biochemistry Environmental Science Life Sciences Neuroscience Pharmacology & Toxicology Biomedical Engineering Engineering & Computing Environmental Engineering Materials Science Anthropology & Archaeology Communication & Media Studies Criminology & Criminal Justice Cultural Studies Economics & Development Education Environmental Studies Ethnic Studies Family Studies Gender Studies Geography Gerontology & Aging Group Studies History Information Science Interpersonal Violence Language & Linguistics Law Management & Organization Studies Marketing & Hospitality Music Peace Studies & Conflict Resolution Philosophy Politics & International Relations Psychoanalysis Psychology & Counseling Public Administration Regional Studies Religion Research Methods & Evaluation Science & Society Studies Social Work & Social Policy Sociology Special Education Urban Studies & Planning BROWSE JOURNALSĭance with us, on the dance-floor and with words, as we reenact our individual and shared tango autoethnographic experiences to develop an understanding of field inter-corporeality as a phenomenological experience of nakedness empowered by the transformational potential of eros. ![]()
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