Ethnographic encounters: towards a minor politics of field access

Aroles, J.

doi:10.1080/14759551.2018.1443103

Ethnographic encounters: towards a minor politics of field access

Aroles, J.

Authors

J. Aroles

Abstract

This paper aims to explore the insight that can be brought by Deleuze and Guattari's concept of minor literature with regard to questions of field access within the context of organizational ethnography. This paper draws from an ethnographic account of scientists negotiating access during a field expedition to Fiji. While the scientists could secure access prior to their departure by abiding by the legal dimension of plant collecting in the field, they had to renegotiate access in the field by engaging with different epistemologies, codes and forms of relationality. Positioned as an ethnography of field access, this paper highlights the enmeshment of codes, practices and trajectories in the negotiation of field access and seeks to set the lines of a ‘minor politics of access’ within the context of organizational ethnography.

Citation

Aroles, J. (2020). Ethnographic encounters: towards a minor politics of field access. Culture and Organization, 26(1), 48-60. https://doi.org/10.1080/14759551.2018.1443103

Journal Article Type	Article
Acceptance Date	Feb 13, 2018
Online Publication Date	Feb 27, 2018
Publication Date	2020
Deposit Date	Aug 2, 2018
Publicly Available Date	Aug 27, 2019
Journal	Culture and Organization
Print ISSN	1475-9551
Electronic ISSN	1477-2760
Publisher	Taylor and Francis Group
Peer Reviewed	Peer Reviewed
Volume	26
Issue	1
Pages	48-60
DOI	https://doi.org/10.1080/14759551.2018.1443103
Public URL	https://durham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1353072

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This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Culture and organization on 27 February 2018 available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/14759551.2018.1443103