Through use of fiction, art and poetry this Special Issue of The Journal of Corporate Citizenship challenges the typical form of the academic article, contributing to the ability of the papers to advance understanding, and reinforcing how an innovative approach to conveying the message can advance debate.
How can we tell our stories differently? How can we go beyond the academic article or sustainability report? All reports and all scholarly pieces are narratives of a sort, each choosing which evidence suits and each having some sense of beginning, middle and end.Through their use of fiction, art and poetry the seven papers in this Special Issue of The Journal of Corporate Citizenship are challenging what might typically be expected as the form of an academic article. These challenges include identifying silent voices, linking of our hands, hearts and heads via art, a poem, a napkin to communicate, the life of an average academic, stories of gladiatorial combat for promotion, and a mans day in a non-specific future. This mix of challenge in both form and message contributes to the ability of the papers to advance understanding, and reinforces how an innovative approach to conveying the message can advance debate.
Table of Contents
Editorial
Malcolm McIntosh, Professor and Director, Asia Pacific Centre for Sustainable
Enterprise Griffith University, Queensland, Australia
Guest Editorial
Storytelling: Beyond the Academic Article Using Fiction, Art and Literary
Techniques to Communicate
Nick Barter, Griffith Business School, Griffith University, Australia and
Helen Tregidga, AUT University, New Zealand
Sacred Stories and Silent Voices: What the Big Bad Wolf Can Teach Us
Ilja Simons, NHTV Breda, University of Applied Sciences, the Netherlands
Hand/Heart/Head: Aesthetic Practice Pedagogy for Deep Sustainability
Learning
Vera Ivanaj, University of Lorraine, France, Kim Poldner, University of St.
Gallen, Switzerland and Paul Shrivastava, Concordia University, Canada
Is This OK? An Exploration of Extremes
Nick Barter and Luke Houghton, Griffith Business School, Griffith University,
Australia
The Quest Games: A Tale of Career Advancement
Candice Harris, Katherine Ravenswood and Barbara Myers, AUT University, New
Zealand
Undermining the Corporate Citizen: An Academic Story
Suzanne Ryan, University of Newcastle and James Guthrie, Macquarie
University, Australia
Mopping up Institutional Racism: Activism on a Napkin
Heather Came, AUT University, New Zealand and Maria Humphries, Waikato
University, New Zealand
Storytelling beyond the Academy: Exploring Roles, Responsibilities and
Regulations in the Open Access Dissemination of Research Outputs and Visual
Data
Dawn Mannay, Cardiff University, UK
Malcolm McIntosh (Edited by) , Nick Barter (Edited by) , Helen Tregidga (Edited by)
