En quête d'habilitation : l'écriture spiralée comme réparation de soi

Auto-ethnography has only recently been accepted by French-speaking management academics. This approach struggles to find its place within university settings, as the process confronts both authors and readers with a vulnerability. This raises the question: what can we “do” with this vulnerability, and how can we “use” it to write texts (more) acceptable in academic circles? In answering this question, we describe the processes at work when writing an “Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches” (HDR), a French diploma that is compulsory for the supervision of PhD candidates and to apply for a full Professor position, through an auto-ethnographic co-production between the author of the dissertation and her supervisor. The writing process is neither dichotomous nor linear, but rather a spiral evolution that leads to the interweaving of feminine and masculine writing into a bisexual writing within a highly normative context.