Ahmed’s Queer Phenomenology
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/gwao.12560
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Abstract
The intended contribution of this article is to add to the growing body of work “queering” organization studies by exploring how bodies, spaces, and organizing can be “queered.” I draw on Sara Ahmed’s *Queer Phenomenology* (2006) to examine the relationship between bodies and the organization of space, both in capitalist and alternative modes of organizing. Through an analysis of semi-structured interviews with three organizers of a queer feminist group in a British medium-sized city, I investigate how we might resist capitalist and other normative spaces by queering them, and how these queered spaces open up fields of action for queerer modes of organizing. In doing so, I further the critical project of Queer Theory in Management and Organization Studies by interrogating the norms that shape organizational spaces and processes, as well as the tensions that arise when refusing their straightening effects.