Feminist theorizing as collective practice: staying with the art of reading

A group of feminist scholars met and collectively read feminist texts aloud. As an alternative to hegemonic modes of theorizing dominant in Management and Organization Studies (MOS), they propose ‘readinglistening’ as a feminist intervention: a practice in which collective reading aloud and embodied listening are re-conceived as acts of curiosity, joy and relationality. Refusing the instrumentalization of reading and its privileging of theoretical abstraction, knowledge can emerge not only in words but in resonant voices and affective, communal presence. The authors conceptualize readinglistening as a practice that resists the normative pursuit of universal clarity, privileging theorization grounded in lived experience and enabling the emergence of theory through heterogeneous media and collaborative engagement. Readinglistening is offered as both inquiry and an invitation for feminist theory to make sense in new ways, sustaining political and creative engagement with the world.