Saying Something Would Be Useless”
Reconsidering Relational Dialectics Theory by Examining How Chinese Women Entrepreneurs Negotiate Gendered Entrepreneurship and Family Harmony
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12755656 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Zhenyu Tian (0000-0001-9032-8293, College of Wooster, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 24 |
| Issue | 3-4 |
| Pages | 196-213 |
| Publication date | 2024-08-28 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Family Communication (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1526-7431 • E-ISSN: 1532-7698 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/15267431.2024.2394032 |
| OpenAlex | W4401944967 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 47 |
The identity of women entrepreneurs illuminates discursive struggles given the masculine norms of entrepreneurship. Applying relational dialectics theory (RDT), this study explored competing discourses surrounding understudied Chinese women entrepreneurs and the interplay of their identification and masculine discourses. I conducted narrative interviews with 34 Chinese women. Contrapuntal analysis of this non-Western data however identified that discursive struggles happened when voicing/speaking/expressing was not prioritized. Hence, I turned to new materialist perspectives to (re)work discourses as boundary-making practices producing local things/beings-in-relations and agents as anyone/anything participating in the dynamism. In two themes as competing discourses (discourses of misalignment vs. legitimacy), I focused on local movements and interferences when/where women in their entrepreneurial becoming encountered various human and nonhuman agents, and therefore demonstrated how discursive struggles involved various bodies/things, more than just talk/voices. Ultimately, this study diffracted RDT by engaging with new materialisms and proposing a new uttered-embodied dimension of discursive struggles
Aesthetics · Dialectic · Dynamism · Embodied cognition · Entrepreneurship · Epistemology · Harmony (color · Identity (music · Legitimacy · Linguistics · Narrative · Negotiation · Political science · Politics · Social science · Sociology · Gender Diversity and Inequality · Gender Studies · Law · Management and Organizational Studies · Social and Cultural Dynamics
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The Glass Slipper
Deeply Rooted in Memories
Why Research on Women Entrepreneurs Needs New Directions
Contradictions, Dialectics, and Paradoxes in Organizations
‘The balance is a forever moving one’
The promise and peril of agency as motion
Textual Agency
Ethics and entangled embodiment
Posthumanist Performativity
Gender Trouble
Narrative Methods for the Human Sciences
A gendered look at entrepreneurship ecosystems
Human Poverty Alleviation through Rural Women’s Tourism Entrepreneurship
Relational Dialectics Theory
Mapping Interventions
Cultural Barriers and Familial Resources for Negotiation of Engineering Careers Among Young Women
I Wanted It to Be Flowers and Sunshine, but That Was Not It at All”
Making Sense of Dissatisfaction during the Transition to Motherhood through Relational Dialectics Theory
Methodology meets culture
(Not) just a girl
Feminist Dilemmatic Theorizing
Communication as Constitutive Transmission? An Encounter with Affect
Critical Theorizing in Family Communication Studies
Development of a Structurational Model of Identification in the Organization
The Evolution of Organizational Archetypes
Childfree and “bingoed”
The promise of contrapuntal and intersectional methods for advancing critical interpersonal and family communication research
Discursive Constructions of the Meaning of “Family” in Online Narratives of Foster Adoptive Parents
Motherhood as Contested Ideological Terrain
Rethinking silence, gender, and power in insecure sites
Using thematic analysis in psychology
Homo neoliberalus
Applied Research, Diffractive Methodology, and the Research-Assemblage
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,5 |
| Citation span | 2024 - 2024 (1) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |