Embodying sensemaking: Learning from the extreme case of Vann Nath, prisoner at S-21

Cunha, MPE; Clegg, S; Rego, A; Gomes, JFS

Embodying sensemaking: Learning from the extreme case of Vann Nath, prisoner at S-21

Cunha, MPE Clegg, S

Rego, A Gomes, JFS

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Citation:: European Management Review, 2015, 12 (1), pp. 41 - 58
Issue Date:: 2015-01-01

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dc.contributor.author	Cunha, MPE	en_US
dc.contributor.author	Clegg, S https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6083-4283	en_US
dc.contributor.author	Rego, A	en_US
dc.contributor.author	Gomes, JFS	en_US
dc.date.issued	2015-01-01	en_US
dc.identifier.citation	European Management Review, 2015, 12 (1), pp. 41 - 58	en_US
dc.identifier.issn	1740-4754	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/36607
dc.description.abstract	© 2015 European Academy of Management. The sensemaking literature offered important critical insights to the understanding of organizing. These have been underpinned by two foundational assumptions. First, sensemaking is predominantly a higher order cognitive process. Second, it is a process desired and desirable. Considering the account of Vann Nath as prisoner of the S-21 extermination center during the Khmer Rouge regime, we challenge these assumptions and argue that, in some cases, sensemaking is fundamentally a bodily and emotional process, one that is undesired and blocked by the organization in which it takes place. The shift in perspective triggered by an extreme context has pertinent implications for the understanding of sensemaking in other, non-extreme organizational circumstances.	en_US
dc.relation.ispartof	European Management Review	en_US
dc.relation.isbasedon	10.1111/emre.12041	en_US
dc.title	Embodying sensemaking: Learning from the extreme case of Vann Nath, prisoner at S-21	en_US
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© 2015 European Academy of Management. The sensemaking literature offered important critical insights to the understanding of organizing. These have been underpinned by two foundational assumptions. First, sensemaking is predominantly a higher order cognitive process. Second, it is a process desired and desirable. Considering the account of Vann Nath as prisoner of the S-21 extermination center during the Khmer Rouge regime, we challenge these assumptions and argue that, in some cases, sensemaking is fundamentally a bodily and emotional process, one that is undesired and blocked by the organization in which it takes place. The shift in perspective triggered by an extreme context has pertinent implications for the understanding of sensemaking in other, non-extreme organizational circumstances.

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