Knitting as metaphor for work

What is it about?

This article discusses the co-authors' experience as university-based colleagues who started knitting together. We found that, while knitting, we developed insights about the complications of our work. We used premises of the methodologies of autoethnography, which connects the researcher's personal experiences to broader conditions, and institutional ethnography, which highlights how personal experience and workplace cultures are guided by broader social or power relations. We use tension, which is key in knitting, as a central metaphor to set up a discussion of a series of tensions that we encounter in our work in today's post-secondary workplace.

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Why is it important?

Using an artful approach, we tackle serious issues confronting faculty members in post-secondary institutions. The patterns that we discover and uncover build understanding about our own work setting as well as other sorts of workplaces.