Durkheim as affect theorist

Barnwell, Ashley

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“…Durkheim was the thinker of togetherness. He believed that solidary collectives arose from emotional currents, waves of ‘electricity’ produced during intense interpersonal encounters (Barnwell, 2018; Shilling, 2005) – exactly what neoliberal societies and organizations are avoiding in the era of Covid-19. His view of social relationships as founded on collective representations as well as strictly personal and intimate bonds allows us to see that when people decide to initiate collective forms of dissidence, they are able to establish bonds of solidarity built from solid intersubjective encounters that go beyond inter personal affinities.…”

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Durkheim in the Neoliberal Organization: Taking Resistance and Solidarity Seriously

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Younès

Reed

2021

Organization Theory

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Durkheim’s contributions to organization studies have so far been decidedly marginal, and largely concentrated on culture. In this paper, we draw upon his theory of anomie and solidarity to show how a Durkheimian view of contemporary organizations and work has special relevance today for debates about how workers, particularly middle managers, can reshuffle a capacity to resist neoliberal efforts to profoundly disrupt their working conditions, in particular their autonomy to define what is a job well done. We show how Durkheim’s insights can account for the unexpected rekindling of forms of social solidarity in highly competitive and individualistic organizational settings, through dissident efforts that convey a renewal of a certain work ethos severed by neoliberal managerial policies and practices. Recent studies on resistance confirm Durkheim’s view that forms of collective activity, resembling supposedly ‘old’ mechanisms of former days, continue to exist and develop in contemporary societies and organizations, in response to pressure to put people in situations of inter-individual competition that disrupts social relationships.

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Section: Durkheim In Neoliberal Organizations: Searching For Hidden Communities and Understanding New Forms Of Solidaritymentioning

confidence: 99%

Durkheim in the Neoliberal Organization: Taking Resistance and Solidarity Seriously

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Younès

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2021

Organization Theory

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“…Durkheim was the thinker of togetherness. He believed that solidary collectives arose from emotional currents, waves of 'electricity' produced during intense interpersonal encounters (Barnwell, 2018;Shilling, 2005) -exactly what neoliberal societies and organizations are avoiding in the era of Covid-19. His view of social relationships as founded on collective representations as well as strictly personal and intimate bonds allows us to see that when people decide to initiate collective forms of dissidence, they are able to establish bonds of solidarity built from solid intersubjective encounters that go beyond interpersonal affinities.…”

Section: Solidarity and Its Infrastructure(s): Towards Studies Of Frimentioning

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2021

Organization Theory

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Durkheim's contributions to organization studies have so far been decidedly marginal, and largely concentrated on culture. In this paper, we draw upon his theory of anomie and solidarity to show how a Durkheimian view of contemporary organizations and work has special relevance today for debates about how workers, particularly middle managers, can reshuffle a capacity to resist neoliberal efforts to profoundly disrupt their working conditions, in particular their autonomy to define what is a job well done. We show how Durkheim's insights can account for the unexpected rekindling of forms of social solidarity in highly competitive and individualistic organizational settings, through dissident efforts that convey a renewal of a certain work ethos severed by neoliberal managerial policies and practices. Recent studies on resistance confirm Durkheim's view that forms of collective activity, resembling supposedly 'old' mechanisms of former days, continue to exist and develop in contemporary societies and organizations, in response to pressure to put people in situations of inter-individual competition that disrupts social relationships.

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“… 1. This definition draws on Barnwell’s (2017) article on ‘Durkheim as affect theorist’, which derives from him a more sociological view of affect, making less of the distinction from emotion and not seeing affect as pre or asocial. Instead, Durkheim helps us reads affect as collective and social and yet as encompassing thinking, feeling humans as well as non-human agents. …”

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Relational happiness through recognition and redistribution: Emotion and inequality

Holmes

McKenzie

2018

European Journal of Social Theory

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This article develops a model of relational happiness that challenges popular individualized definitions and emphasizes how it can enhance the sociological analysis of inequality. Many studies of happiness suggest that social inequalities are closely associated with distributions of happiness at the national level, but happiness research continues to favour individual-level analyses. Limited attention has been given to the intersubjective aspects of happiness and the correlations between it and higher social equality. Conversely, key theoretical debates about inequalities, such as Axel Honneth and Nancy Fraser’s exchanges, have only indirectly touched on happiness. A relational approach to happiness is not new, but what this article offers is a new combination of a relational understanding of happiness as an intersubjectively, culturally experienced complex of emotions with discussions about recognition of marginalized groups and redistribution of material resources. This combined approach can further debates about understanding and remedying social inequalities. It argues that theories and measurements of happiness must consider how it can be achieved collectively through working at mutual respect as well as greater material equality.

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Durkheim as affect theorist

Cited by 10 publications

References 45 publications

Durkheim in the Neoliberal Organization: Taking Resistance and Solidarity Seriously

Durkheim in the Neoliberal Organization: Taking Resistance and Solidarity Seriously

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Relational happiness through recognition and redistribution: Emotion and inequality

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