Craig O. Rich: Organizational ethnography and job segregation: Barbers, hairstylists, and the embodied belongings of work

Open Research Seminar together with Communicum-network by

Dr. Craig O. Rich, Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles

Please register to the event via http://tinyurl.com/a99auy6 no later than on Tuesday 26 February 2013. Coffee will be served before the seminar and some refreshments after.

Organizational ethnography and job segregation: Barbers, hairstylists and the embodied belongings of work

Friday March 1, 2013, 3:00PM - 5:00 PM
AaltoBIZ, main building, class room A-401

Abstract

Ethnography is a flexible yet powerful research methodology for studying social practices and meaning systems within a cultural site.  As a form of inquiry, it offers researchers from a number of disciplines a means through which to explore the (re)production of enduring socio-cultural problems.  Using job segregation as an illustrative example, this seminar explores the value and recent trends in organizational ethnography and grounds this discussion in a comparative ethnography of barbers and hairstylists.  In particular, organizational ethnography attunes our attention to the complex interplay between discourse and the embodied longings and belongings of work that encourage the segregation of jobs.     

Bio

Craig Rich earned his Ph.D. in Communication from the University of Utah and currently serves as an Assistant Professor of Communication Studies at Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles. Dr. Rich studies the communicative constitution of identity, differences, work, and organization, and his research appears in Communication Monograph, the Southern Communication Journal, and TAMARA: The Journal of Critical Organization Inquiry (forthcoming). He teaches courses on Theories of Organizational Communication and Management, Diversity and Organizational Communication, Qualitative Research, and Relational Communication.

More information: Johanna Moisander and Jaakko Autio, johanna.moisander(at)aalto.fi, jaakko.2.autio(at)aalto.fi