Sharon Mavin Dr Gina Grandy
Biographic Data
| ID | 10423065 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sharon Mavin Dr Gina Grandy |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sharon Mavin Dr Gina |
| FAMILY NAME | Grandy |
| SIGNATURE | GRANDY S M D G |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 0 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 5 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Metaphors and sensemaking
Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to consider how taxi drivers understand the customer service relationship as "dirty work" by examining the strategies they use to manage the taint associated with their work. Design/methodology/approach - An innovative qualitative approach is taken that focuses upon the analysis of metaphors elicited in interviews with 24 taxi drivers. Findings - Four different metaphorical understandings of the customer ser…
Researchers as dirty workers
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to explore the relatively hidden phenomenon of researchers who not only study dirty work but who also occupy the position of dirty workers. Drawing on the sociological debate on insider-outsider categories in research, this paper describes how these types of “dirty work/er researchers” understand and negotiate their occupational subjectivity and the methodological and epistemological resources they bring to t…
The use of ethnography to explore meanings that refuse collectors attach to their work
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to detail how the ethnographic approach can be usefully adopted in the context of researching dirty or undesirable work. Drawing on a study of refuse collectors, it shows how ethnography can enable a fuller social articulation of the experiences and meanings of a social group where conventional narrative disclosure and linguistic expression may be insufficient. Design/methodology/approach Viewing ethnography a…
Exploring media construction of investment banking as dirty work
Purpose - To explore how two kinds of UK-based media positioned investment banking as dirty work during the financial crisis, thereby engaging in moral enterprise (Becker 1963) and contributing to the shaping of society’s normative contours (Cohen 1972). - Design/methodology - We employ rhetorical analysis to explore how newspaper editorials and an online blog portray investment banking as tainted between April 2008 and October 2009. - Findings –…
Embodying emotional dirty work
Purpose "Dirty work" is an embodied, emotional activity, and may best be expressed through narrative thick description. The purpose of this paper is to employ creative analytic techniques through a "messy text" for better understanding the tacit knowledge and emotionality of dirty work and dirty research. The vignettes, based upon ethnographic fieldwork with US Border Patrol agents, viscerally reveal the embodied emotions of dirty work and doing …
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Metaphors and sensemaking
Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to consider how taxi drivers understand the customer service relationship as "dirty work" by examining the strategies they use to manage the taint associated with their work. Design/methodology/approach - An innovative qualitative approach is taken that focuses upon the analysis of metaphors elicited in interviews with 24 taxi drivers. Findings - Four different metaphorical understandings of the customer ser…
Researchers as dirty workers
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to explore the relatively hidden phenomenon of researchers who not only study dirty work but who also occupy the position of dirty workers. Drawing on the sociological debate on insider-outsider categories in research, this paper describes how these types of “dirty work/er researchers” understand and negotiate their occupational subjectivity and the methodological and epistemological resources they bring to t…
The use of ethnography to explore meanings that refuse collectors attach to their work
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to detail how the ethnographic approach can be usefully adopted in the context of researching dirty or undesirable work. Drawing on a study of refuse collectors, it shows how ethnography can enable a fuller social articulation of the experiences and meanings of a social group where conventional narrative disclosure and linguistic expression may be insufficient. Design/methodology/approach Viewing ethnography a…
Exploring media construction of investment banking as dirty work
Purpose - To explore how two kinds of UK-based media positioned investment banking as dirty work during the financial crisis, thereby engaging in moral enterprise (Becker 1963) and contributing to the shaping of society’s normative contours (Cohen 1972). - Design/methodology - We employ rhetorical analysis to explore how newspaper editorials and an online blog portray investment banking as tainted between April 2008 and October 2009. - Findings –…
Embodying emotional dirty work
Purpose "Dirty work" is an embodied, emotional activity, and may best be expressed through narrative thick description. The purpose of this paper is to employ creative analytic techniques through a "messy text" for better understanding the tacit knowledge and emotionality of dirty work and dirty research. The vignettes, based upon ethnographic fieldwork with US Border Patrol agents, viscerally reveal the embodied emotions of dirty work and doing …
Engineering (5 works) · Work (physics (5 works) · Business (3 works) · Emotional Labor in Professions (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Anthropology (2 works) · Art (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works)