ABSTRACT

This article enquires into the lived experiences of childbirth as a site of ‘fleshy becomings’ that disrupts the dominantly cleaned-up approaches to organising. Theoretically, we approach childbirth as a primitively humane experience in which birthing bodies become entangled with the materiality by which they are surrounded. The empirical material of the article consists of 12 in-depth interviews with first-time mothers in Finland as well as of photographs and autoethnographic research notes taken by the two authors of this article. By empirically highlighting the interplay between flesh and materiality in the ‘making’ of birthing bodies, this article offers novel viewpoints on the discussion of embodied experiences as well as on the entangled relations between flesh and materiality in the field of organisation studies. It also makes an empirical contribution using a unique contextual example of ‘birthing’ to illustrate how vulnerable topics can be researched, offering critical viewpoints on this subject.

摘要

本文探究了分娩的现实经历，认为这是一个“软弱的成年”的场所，它破坏了以清理为主的组织方式。从理论上讲，我们将分娩视为一种原始的人道经历，在这种经历中，分娩体与包围它们的物质性纠缠在一起。这篇文章的经验材料包括对芬兰新妈妈的12次深度访谈，以及本文两位作者所拍摄的照片和民族志研究笔记。通过经验性地强调肉体与物质在分娩体“制造”中的相互作用，本文提供了新颖的观点，用于组织研究领域中具体化经验的讨论以及肉体与物质之间的纠缠关系。