Abstract
This is a story of six researchers who came together to make sense of the tumult triggered by the COVID-19 pandemic. The team centered emotion and affectivity, letting it guide research design, team meetings, and the ways we related with interviewees and each other. The project also prompted us to critically examine our habits and realize the relatively privileged ways our own strategies of self-soothing could have problematic repercussions on the collective. As such, centering compassion and emotion not only served as a method of individual coping but also served to critically reveal how we as academics are enmeshed in systems that bring trauma to bear. This chapter closes with several ideas about how we might engage in research methods during and about times of collective suffering that move beyond individual emotional release and may prompt relational work toward communal catharsis and systematic change.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Title of host publication | Organizational Communication and Technology in the Time of Coronavirus |
| Subtitle of host publication | Ethnographies from the First Year of the Pandemic |
| Publisher | Springer International Publishing |
| Pages | 191-209 |
| Number of pages | 19 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 9783030948146 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9783030948139 |
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| State | Published - Jan 1 2022 |
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Economics, Econometrics and Finance(all)
- General Business, Management and Accounting