... collaborative autoethnography, the study examines how the intersections of being a young petite female and a “partial” insider in a male-dominated construction industry influences the researcher's identity work process and her quest for social power. Findings The findings suggest that to access referent...

... in conditions of permanent liminality as unresolved identity work through simultaneous identification and dis-identification. It further shows the multidimensionality of this identity work and argues that identity negotiation as a response to perpetual liminality is informed by notions of struggle and notions...

...Amanda Michiko Shigihara Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine restaurant employees’ engagement in identity work to manage occupational stigma consciousness. Design/methodology/approach Research methods included ethnographic fieldwork and in-depth interviews. Findings Widespread...

...Ingo Winkler Purpose – Telling the story of the author’s attempts acquiring the Danish language over the past three and a half years, the purpose of this paper is to investigate how identity work is narratively accomplished within organisational contexts. It aims at developing an in-depth...

...-McDonagh can be contacted at: e.sanders@mdx.ac.uk © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2014 Racism Risk Identity work Dirty work Extremism Far-right This paper takes as its starting point recent discussions about “dirty work” processes and questions around the constitutive nature...

...Clare Butler; Jocelyn Finniear; Anne Marie Doherty; Steve Hill Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore the potential of incorporating visual methods in the study of identity and identity work. Design/methodology/approach – Scholars have proposed a range of approaches to the study...

...Katrina Pritchard Purpose The purpose of this paper is to expand recent discussions of research practice in organizational ethnography by engaging in a reflexive examination of the ethnographer's situated identity work across different research spaces: academic, personal and the research site...