Writing with rocks. Issue 2 (2nd February 2021)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Valtonen, Anu; Pullen, Alison
• Other Names: Beavan Katie guestEditor.; Borgström Benedikte guestEditor.; Helin Jenny guestEditor.; Rhodes Carl guestEditor.
• Is Part Of: Gender work and organization. Volume 28:Issue 2(2021)
• Page Start: 506
• Page End: 522
• Publication Date: 2021-02-02
• Subjects: affect -- ethico‐politics -- feminist new materialism -- geologic -- touching -- writing; Sex role in the work environment -- Periodicals; Sexual division of labor -- Periodicals; Sex discrimination in employment -- Periodicals; Organizational sociology -- Periodicals; Industries -- Social aspects -- Periodicals; 306.361505
• DOI: 10.1111/gwao.12579
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0968-6673

Abstract

Abstract: Rocks. Geological forces across time and space. Non‐human beings. Humans. Affect material encounters with rocks. Connecting. Being. Writing… From the Artic to Eastern Finland. From Sydney to Kangaroo Island, Australia. From the north to the south, and back again. Corporeal, affective. These rocks live with and through us. Touching rocks—rocks touch us. Bodies—rocks, co‐constituted in life. Disrupting. Non‐violent. Ethico‐political acts of writing. Writing rocks. Humans become geologic forces. Care. Response‐able.