The Socio-Materiality of Dirty Work
A Critical Realist Perspective
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2374512 |
|---|---|
| Authors | A M Galazka (0000-0002-4376-1980, Cardiff University, corresponding author), Joe O’mahoney (0000-0002-1912-1211, Cardiff University) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 37 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 432-448 |
| Publication date | 2023-04-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Work Employment and Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0950-0170 • E-ISSN: 1469-8722 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/09500170211011321 |
| OpenAlex | W3161220971 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 31 |
New materialist applications in 'dirty work' studies have rightly emphasised the importance of materiality alongside symbolism. However, these approaches have neglected important themes irreducible to the material world, such as temporality, reflexivity and social structure. This article develops an alternative critical realist perspective on socio-materiality in dirty work which emphasises these themes. It draws on 2016-2017 ethnographic data on the work of clinical photographers of wounds in a UK specialist outpatient wound healing clinic. First, it shows how photographers' reflexivity mediates the relationship between their embodied materiality and their agency in the physical domain. Second, it highlights the temporal dynamics between reflexive agents, their material environment, and the context of their operation. Finally, it emphasises the non-conflationary relationship between the social structures of the medical hierarchy and photographers' agency in dirty work. Together, these contributions highlight the utility of an emergent, realist ontology in understanding the dynamics of dirty work
Aesthetics · Agency (philosophy · Art · Embodied cognition · Epistemology · Ethnography · Materialism · Materiality (auditing · Perspective (graphical · Reflexivity · Social science · Sociology · Structure and agency · Temporality · Visual arts · Anthropology · Emotional Labor in Professions · Employment and Welfare Studies · Management and Organizational Studies · Philosophy
Introducing the New Materialisms
Can Culture be Managed? Working with “Raw” Material
Quick and dirty? A systematic review of the use of rapid ethnographies in healthcare organisation and delivery
Ethics and entangled embodiment
Organizational Discourse Analysis
Realist Social Theory
Structure, Agency and the Internal Conversation
Embodying” dirty work
The girl with the garden gloves
The Feminization of Body Work
Using the heterotopic mirror to reveal tensions in public reaction to a photographic essay of eldercare staff and older adults
Being Human
How can the loggerhead sea-turtle survive? Exploring the journeys of the Caretta caretta using ANT and critical realism
Disassembling Actor-network Theory
Sociology and the New Materialism
Carework as a form of bodywork
Dealing with Dirt
Can Dirty Work be Satisfying? A Mixed Method Study of Workers Doing Dirty Jobs
Beyond the symbolic
Conceptualising body work in health and social care
Time, space and touch at work
From 'dirty wound care' to 'woundology
Is anybody there? Critical realism, chronic illness and the disability debate
The Dirty Work of Poker
| Unique citing works | 4 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2022 - 2026 (5) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |