Sensuous intoxication: Learning from bodies in organisational ethnography

An increasing number of management articles have focused on embodied ethnography in terms either understanding other bodies at work or how our own as researchers inform knowledge. In advancing this latter approach, we argue for an embodiment that sensually intoxicates bodies, enabling new forms learning to emerge. To grow understanding, draw Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s concept ‘le schéma corporel’, a shared physiognomy the senses. This informs corporeal methodology which details three organisational depictions emerge from season long immersion professional rugby team. We illustrate Will was corporeally apprenticed setting through body situated, emotional and physical. The article concludes by suggesting it is researcher’s site learning, providing sense reader pain, touch sound rugby.