Organizations in the Anthropocene: A dialogue between organizing practices and multispecies ethnography

This theoretical paper aims to help us think about organizations in the Anthropocene from organizing practices. We propose an ontological and epistemological shift, which means looking at the Anthropocene critically and politically to evade the dualism between humanity and nature. Therefore, to redu...

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Autores: Costa Junior, Valdir, Oliveira, Josiane Silva de
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2023
País:Brasil
Institución:Universidade de Fortaleza (UNIFOR)
Repositorio:Revista Ciências Administrativas (Fortaleza. Online)
Idioma:portugués
OAI Identifier:oai:ojs.ojs.unifor.br:article/13681
Acceso en línea:https://ojs.unifor.br/rca/article/view/13681
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:anthropocene
Ethnography
multispecies ethnography
organizing practices
non-humans
Antropoceno
etnografia
etnografia multiéspecies
práticas organizativas
não-humanos
antropoceno
etnografía
etnografía multiespecies
prácticas organizativas
no humanos
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Sumario:This theoretical paper aims to help us think about organizations in the Anthropocene from organizing practices. We propose an ontological and epistemological shift, which means looking at the Anthropocene critically and politically to evade the dualism between humanity and nature. Therefore, to reduce the theoretical gap present in Theodore Schatzki's organizing practices, we bring non-human animals to the discussion. Furthermore, we propose that multispecies ethnography be an effective methodology to mediate the theoretical and methodological gap in the social relations of human and non-human actors, including in organizing processes and everyday life. This dialogue between the Anthropocene and organizations allows us to think that organizations “happen” beyond humans; since other organisms are also organizing and have a place in organizational processes. We consider that humanity is not part of nature, but is nature itself, as well as organizations. Thus, human-centered organizing practices present a limited understanding of our social reality.