Field, place or space? A carnal ethnography of a therapeutic space-construct

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Journal of Organizational Ethnography Pub Date : 2023-06-21 DOI:10.1108/joe-01-2023-0001

Anna Milena Galazka

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PurposeIn advancing the academic discourse around the theory of field, place and space in ethnographic research, this paper proposes a carnal sociological reading of the meaning and form of the Lindsay Leg Clubs – third-sector community leg care centres for older adults with leg problems – as a therapeutic space-construct.Design/methodology/approachThe paper draws on non-formulaic, polymorphic ethnographic research in the UK Lindsay Leg Clubs conducted through multiple on-site and extramural engagements with the Leg Club community between 2019 and 2023 and an interview with the Leg Club founder and president, Professor Ellie Lindsay OBE. Wacquant's (2015) reflexive, enactive ethnographic approach is applied to develop an intellectual and carnal know-how of Leg Clubs as therapeutic space-constructs.FindingsThe researcher's “flesh and blood” experience of the Leg Clubs reveals the importance of cognitive and embodied appreciation of sounds, smells, sights, movements, the structures of wound stigma, centre-stage physical bodies of members and the volunteers, the material arrangement of the place and the researcher's own visceral and intellectual, biographical relation to the fieldwork to understand the therapeutic form and meaning of Leg Club spaces.Originality/valueApplying the carnal sociology approach to reveal the therapeutic form and meaning of the Leg Club spaces makes concrete the abstract distinctions between field, place and space in ethnographic research, hence advancing the discourse around the theory of field in ethnography. A carnal sociological reading of the Leg Club spaces has implications for an embodied understanding of broader community care spaces.

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场、地点还是空间?一种治疗性空间构造的肉欲人种志

目的在推进民族志研究中围绕场、场所和空间理论的学术讨论时，本文提出了对Lindsay腿部俱乐部（为有腿部问题的老年人提供的第三部门社区腿部护理中心）的意义和形式的肉欲社会学解读，作为一种治疗空间结构。设计/方法论/方法该论文借鉴了英国林赛腿部俱乐部在2019年至2023年间通过与腿部俱乐部社区的多次现场和校外活动进行的非公式化、多态性的民族志研究，以及对腿部俱乐部创始人兼总裁Ellie Lindsay OBE教授的采访。Wacquant（2015）的反射性、行为性民族志方法被应用于开发腿俱乐部作为治疗空间构建的智力和肉体知识。发现研究人员对腿部俱乐部的“血肉之躯”体验揭示了对声音、气味、景象、动作、创伤污名结构、成员和志愿者的中心身体、场地的物质安排以及研究人员自己的内脏和智力的认知和具体欣赏的重要性，与田野调查的传记关系，以了解腿部俱乐部空间的治疗形式和意义。独创性/价值运用肉欲社会学方法揭示腿俱乐部空间的治疗形式和意义，具体化了民族志研究中场、场所和空间之间的抽象区别，从而推动了民族志中围绕场理论的讨论。对腿部俱乐部空间的肉欲社会学解读对更广泛的社区护理空间的具体理解具有启示意义。

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期刊介绍： The Journal of Organizational Ethnography (JOE) has been launched to provide an opportunity for scholars, from all social and management science disciplines, to publish over two issues: -high-quality articles from original ethnographic research that contribute to the current and future development of qualitative intellectual knowledge and understanding of the nature of public and private sector work, organization and management -review articles examining the history and development of the contribution of ethnography to qualitative research in social, organization and management studies -articles examining the intellectual, pedagogical and practical use-value of ethnography in organization and management research, management education and management practice, or which extend, critique or challenge past and current theoretical and empirical knowledge claims within one or more of these areas of interest -articles on ethnographically informed research relating to the concepts of organization and organizing in any other wider social and cultural contexts.