M W Sedgwick
Biographic Data
| ID | 32147 |
|---|---|
| NAME | M W Sedgwick |
| GIVEN NAMES | M W |
| FAMILY NAME | Sedgwick |
| SIGNATURE | SEDGWICK M W |
| AFFILIATIONS | Oxford Brookes University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9517-3451 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Entwined biographies of work and trauma: Taking time in the study of corporations
This article considers over 25 years of ethnographic fieldwork, conducted among members of a Japanese multinational corporation, their families and surrounding communities, as an entwining of informants’ and an anthropologist's biographies both across time and in widely dispersed locations: Japan, Thailand, France and on the US–Mexico border. The research also required analysis of the re‐contextualisation of relations of a particular set of inter…
Complicit Positioning: Anthropological Knowledge and Problems of 'Studying Up' for Ethnographer-Employees of Corporations
Contemporary work by 'corporate ethnographers', as employees of businesses, offers a refreshing perspective on Anthropology's 'crisis of representation' and its extensions-from neo-colonial concerns and reflexivity, to para-ethnographic and recursive approaches-that are increasingly characterized by complicit relations between ethnographers and their informants/'collaborators'. This article focusses on the history and politics of ethnographers' p…
Contextualising the Irrelevance of “Values” to the Study of International Business: A response
At the small gathering at the University of Hong Kong that resulted in many of the papers published in this issue of the JBA, I was paired with Nigel Holden, well-known for his work on cross-cultural management (CCM) in the field of international business (IB). I am an anthropologist with over 20 years of experience researching cross-cultural business contexts. As we did in Hong Kong, here I respond to Nigel's commentary. Specifically, I discuss …
Diversity at Kaizen Motors: Gender, Race, Age, and Insecurity in a Japanese Auto Transplant
Journal Article Diversity at Kaizen Motors: Gender, Race, Age, and Insecurity in a Japanese Auto Transplant Get access Diversity at Kaizen Motors: Gender, Race, Age, and Insecurity in a Japanese Auto Transplant, by Darina Lepadatu and Thomas Janoski. Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 2011, x + 149 pp., $28.99 (paperback 978-0-7618-5593-4) Mitchell W. SEDGWICK Mitchell W. SEDGWICK Oxford Brookes University Search for other works by this aut…
At a Tangent to Belonging: “Career Progression” and Networks of Knowing Japanese Multinational Corporations
This article describes multisited ethnography at a Japanese multinational corporation, in progress for more than two decades. The focus of the fieldwork was the cross‐cultural experiences of Japanese salarymen with non‐Japanese coworkers. The author discusses what it meant for him to grow older along with Japanese salarymen informants working in factories in Thailand and France in an evolving political economy. He argues for shifting from a focus…
The culture of copying in Japan: Critical and historical perspectives - Edited by Rupert Cox
Marketing minds, markets in place
Complicit Positioning: Anthropological Knowledge and Problems of 'Studying Up' for Ethnographer-Employees of Corporations
Contemporary work by 'corporate ethnographers', as employees of businesses, offers a refreshing perspective on Anthropology's 'crisis of representation' and its extensions-from neo-colonial concerns and reflexivity, to para-ethnographic and recursive approaches-that are increasingly characterized by complicit relations between ethnographers and their informants/'collaborators'. This article focusses on the history and politics of ethnographers' p…
Marketing minds, markets in place
The culture of copying in Japan: Critical and historical perspectives - Edited by Rupert Cox
At a Tangent to Belonging: “Career Progression” and Networks of Knowing Japanese Multinational Corporations
This article describes multisited ethnography at a Japanese multinational corporation, in progress for more than two decades. The focus of the fieldwork was the cross‐cultural experiences of Japanese salarymen with non‐Japanese coworkers. The author discusses what it meant for him to grow older along with Japanese salarymen informants working in factories in Thailand and France in an evolving political economy. He argues for shifting from a focus…
Diversity at Kaizen Motors: Gender, Race, Age, and Insecurity in a Japanese Auto Transplant
Journal Article Diversity at Kaizen Motors: Gender, Race, Age, and Insecurity in a Japanese Auto Transplant Get access Diversity at Kaizen Motors: Gender, Race, Age, and Insecurity in a Japanese Auto Transplant, by Darina Lepadatu and Thomas Janoski. Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 2011, x + 149 pp., $28.99 (paperback 978-0-7618-5593-4) Mitchell W. SEDGWICK Mitchell W. SEDGWICK Oxford Brookes University Search for other works by this aut…
Contextualising the Irrelevance of “Values” to the Study of International Business: A response
At the small gathering at the University of Hong Kong that resulted in many of the papers published in this issue of the JBA, I was paired with Nigel Holden, well-known for his work on cross-cultural management (CCM) in the field of international business (IB). I am an anthropologist with over 20 years of experience researching cross-cultural business contexts. As we did in Hong Kong, here I respond to Nigel's commentary. Specifically, I discuss …
Complicit Positioning: Anthropological Knowledge and Problems of 'Studying Up' for Ethnographer-Employees of Corporations
Contemporary work by 'corporate ethnographers', as employees of businesses, offers a refreshing perspective on Anthropology's 'crisis of representation' and its extensions-from neo-colonial concerns and reflexivity, to para-ethnographic and recursive approaches-that are increasingly characterized by complicit relations between ethnographers and their informants/'collaborators'. This article focusses on the history and politics of ethnographers' p…
Entwined biographies of work and trauma: Taking time in the study of corporations
This article considers over 25 years of ethnographic fieldwork, conducted among members of a Japanese multinational corporation, their families and surrounding communities, as an entwining of informants’ and an anthropologist's biographies both across time and in widely dispersed locations: Japan, Thailand, France and on the US–Mexico border. The research also required analysis of the re‐contextualisation of relations of a particular set of inter…
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