Flooding lagoons, melting mountains: Diffractive vignettes as a communicative engagement with extra-linguistic and response-able materializations
(2024) EGOS colloquium- Abstract
- Purpose: This article aims to illustrate diffractive vignettes as a methodology to extend current communicative and performative approaches. We engage with the critical ethical- onto-epistemological underpinnings of diffraction and explore how it can sensitize communicative research (in particular within the Montréal School (TMS) of CCO scholarship) to processes of materialization - what comes to matter - differently in our research in the context of the climate crisis.
Design/methodology/approach: Reading our ethnographic fieldwork concerning the climate crisis in the Venetian Lagoon and the Austrian Alps, diffractive vignettes are introduced as a way through which we ‘thickly perform’ the climate crisis and become response-able for... (More) - Purpose: This article aims to illustrate diffractive vignettes as a methodology to extend current communicative and performative approaches. We engage with the critical ethical- onto-epistemological underpinnings of diffraction and explore how it can sensitize communicative research (in particular within the Montréal School (TMS) of CCO scholarship) to processes of materialization - what comes to matter - differently in our research in the context of the climate crisis.
Design/methodology/approach: Reading our ethnographic fieldwork concerning the climate crisis in the Venetian Lagoon and the Austrian Alps, diffractive vignettes are introduced as a way through which we ‘thickly perform’ the climate crisis and become response-able for our agential cuts. In crafting these diffractive vignettes, we discuss what experiences and affects materialized and how the climate crisis can emerge differently through the performances in our research.
Findings: Our empirical contribution is twofold. First, diffraction helps us attend to how performativity works through extra-linguistic sensibilities and how it moves through affective transmission in the constitution of organizational realities. Second, it allows us to account for the ethical consequence of these materializations by developing response-ability for the materialization and the matterings we produce in our research.
Originality: Through a diffractive methodology, we extend a fastly developing body of work on materialization within communicative organizational research with what seems still to be missing from it: an attunement to affective more-than-human Earthly relations and developing response-ability for the particular materialization. (Less)
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- Nadegger, Monica and Porzionato, Monica LU
- organization
- publishing date
- 2024
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- Contribution to conference
- publication status
- published
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- conference name
- EGOS colloquium
- conference location
- Milan, Italy
- conference dates
- 2024-07-04 - 2024-07-06
- project
- Rethinking urban tourism development: Dealing with sustainability in the age of over-tourism
- language
- English
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- yes
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- 79108822-1a76-4174-83a5-e6375b0e3dc4
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abstract = {{Purpose: This article aims to illustrate diffractive vignettes as a methodology to extend current communicative and performative approaches. We engage with the critical ethical- onto-epistemological underpinnings of diffraction and explore how it can sensitize communicative research (in particular within the Montréal School (TMS) of CCO scholarship) to processes of materialization - what comes to matter - differently in our research in the context of the climate crisis.<br/>Design/methodology/approach: Reading our ethnographic fieldwork concerning the climate crisis in the Venetian Lagoon and the Austrian Alps, diffractive vignettes are introduced as a way through which we ‘thickly perform’ the climate crisis and become response-able for our agential cuts. In crafting these diffractive vignettes, we discuss what experiences and affects materialized and how the climate crisis can emerge differently through the performances in our research.<br/>Findings: Our empirical contribution is twofold. First, diffraction helps us attend to how performativity works through extra-linguistic sensibilities and how it moves through affective transmission in the constitution of organizational realities. Second, it allows us to account for the ethical consequence of these materializations by developing response-ability for the materialization and the matterings we produce in our research.<br/>Originality: Through a diffractive methodology, we extend a fastly developing body of work on materialization within communicative organizational research with what seems still to be missing from it: an attunement to affective more-than-human Earthly relations and developing response-ability for the particular materialization.}},
author = {{Nadegger, Monica and Porzionato, Monica}},
language = {{eng}},
title = {{Flooding lagoons, melting mountains: Diffractive vignettes as a communicative engagement with extra-linguistic and response-able materializations}},
year = {{2024}},
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