Becoming With Barad: A Material-Discursive-Affective Conversation

This chapter engages with the question the relationship between Karen Barad’s work, affect and management and organizational studies (MOS). While Barad’s work has gained increasingly popularity in MOS in recent years, the affective dimensions of their work remain underarticulated in this context. To unpack this, the chapter draws on novel methodologies of writing, as the authors write not only about, but with and through affect. In a conversational format, the chapter considers how Barad’s work can be used to engage with the affective dimensions of central topics in MOS scholarship. The chapter also provides introductions to Barad’s key concepts and outlines how they have been applied in MOS scholarship.