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Shadowing: an embodied method for understanding the experience of working remotely
[La filature, une méthode incarnée pour appréhender le vécu du travail à distance]

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  • Claire Estagnasié

    (UQAM - Université du Québec à Montréal = University of Québec in Montréal, UniCA - Université Côte d'Azur, GREDEG - Groupe de Recherche en Droit, Economie et Gestion - UNS - Université Nice Sophia Antipolis (1965 - 2019) - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique - UniCA - Université Côte d'Azur, LabCMO - Laboratoire de communication médiatisée par ordinateur - UQAM - Université du Québec à Montréal = University of Québec in Montréal, CIRST - Centre interuniversitaire de recherche sur la science et la technologie - UdeM - Université de Montréal - UQAM - Université du Québec à Montréal = University of Québec in Montréal, RECOR - Groupe de recherche sur la Communication Organisante)

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This paper explores shadowing as an embodied ethnographic method for analyzing remote work in the affective turn of organizational studies. Anchored in doctoral research, it follows eight participants on three continents after 63 interviews. Inscribed in the phenomenology of Merleau-Ponty and the CCO approach, it reveals the affective dimensions of remote work and sheds light on the mutations of professional practices in a transforming world, by proposing a specific observation grid to grasp the sensitive dimensions of an organizing phenomenon.

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  • Claire Estagnasié, 2025. "Shadowing: an embodied method for understanding the experience of working remotely [La filature, une méthode incarnée pour appréhender le vécu du travail à distance]," Post-Print hal-05121544, HAL.
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