ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the authors explore the affinities of queer theory and autoethnography, showing how the two complement each other and what the field stands to gain from a more systemic engagement with these nontraditional approaches to scholarship. They highlight what they stand to gain by queering organizational research through autoethnography by mobilizing queer theory. The authors also explore the implications of queering organizational research methods before specifically outlining the contributions of queering organizational research through autoethnography. Anti-narrative research is consistent with queering organizational autoethnography because rather than producing a stable and coherent narrative that is meant to represent an objective reality. Queering organizational autoethnography thus calls for autoethnographers to engage in reflexivity queerly and practice what McDonald termed queer reflexivity. Queering organizational autoethnography through the practice of queer reflexivity, as described earlier, ultimately leads to richer, more nuanced accounts of the researcher’s positionalities.
