Non‐origin of Species

Gough, Tim

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“…The irony is that two lines of thought, often regarded as oppositional, now serve to place diversity at the origin: nature and culture. The former, nature, has largely worked through biologyparticularly traditions of evolution and variation that underscored the intense diversity in ecosystems (Gough, 2006). Diversity in organization has also been rendered "natural" (and therefore inevitable) through biology.…”

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“…Approaching "diversity" critically allows us to open some constructive space. Like Derrida's deconstruction of origins (differance), diversity to us implies the ongoing possibility of many differences rather than any specific difference (such as race or culture), since the latter would collapse into its terms and solidify an origin again (Gough, 2006). Such diversity involves openness to ongoing alterity that would always resist categorization whether by "race" or by "culture".…”

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InvokingBlack Athenaand its debates

Riad

Jones

2013

Journal of Management History

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Purpose -The authors use the debates instigated by Bernal's Black Athena to rethink the concepts of "race", "culture" and "diversity" in organization and aim to examine their intersection with academic authority. Design/methodology/approach -Drawing on the works of Derrida and Hegel, the authors question the pursuit of origins and illustrate its role in essentializing race, culture and diversity. The paper examines these through binaries including white/black, nature/culture, purity/diversity and diversity/university. Findings -First, both the Black Athena debates and the organizational literature turn to origins to ground concepts of difference. This attests to the power of narratives of descent in defining current interests. Second, organization studies have relied on images of a clear past which had eliminated racialization and its implications. Whereas culture is considered progressive, as a user-friendly term it has served as a "surrogate" or "homologue" for race. Diversity, in turn, has been deployed both to harbour and to control difference in organization.Research limitations/implications -The Black Athena debates alert people to the authority of scholars and practitioners in normalising identity categories in organization. They challenge people to develop theories and practices of organizational diversity that are open to ongoing difference rather than essence and origin. Originality/value -Derrida's contribution has rarely been used in organizational history, particularly its implication with Hegel's legacy to the historical and cultural canon. The paper invites readers to rethink the notions of race, culture and diversity by examining their historical development and considering the history of their inclusion into the canons of management and organization. Historicising can unsettle entrenched assumptions, but the cautionary word is that it can also legitimate current practices by identifying their relevance since "the beginning".

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Section: Jmh 193mentioning

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InvokingBlack Athenaand its debates

Riad

Jones

2013

Journal of Management History

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“…Flows within Gaia are much higher than fluxes across the boundaries of Gaia; for example, elements that are crucial to life processes are recycled from organism to organism hundreds of times before they leave Gaia into the nonliving world of atmosphere or rock. 2 This tight seal on matter is highly consequential for the nature of life on earth, conditioning the economy of excess that drives organic evolution (Bataille, 1985;Gough, 2006). It helps shape the internal structure of Gaia, its 'geophysiology': the organization of living things into Volk's four 'biochemical guilds' -producers, herbivores, carnivores and detrivores -is as much a consequence as a cause of the material closedness of Gaia (Volk, 2003: 60, 101-2).…”

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Reading and Writing the Weather

Szerszynski

2010

Theory, Culture & Society

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In this article I argue that an adequate response to climate change requires an overcoming of the metaphysics of presence that is structuring our relationship with the weather. I trace the links between this metaphysics and the dominant way that the topic of climate change is being narrated, which is structured around the transition from diagnosis to cure, from the scientific reading to the technological writing of the weather. Against this narrative I develop a rather different account of the current ecopolitical moment. I first argue that an understanding of anthropogenic climate change must be grounded in a biosemiotic analysis of the evolving metabolism between society and nature, one that is alert to the way that metabolism involves a folded relation between inside and outside, and that recognizes the constant deferral of biosemiotic meaning in ecological systems. I then use a deconstructive reading of climate technics to problematize the distinction between the diagnosis and solution of climate change, and expose modern scientific practices of reading the climate as already containing within themselves a notion of weather’s technological writability. Exploring the notion that previous transformations of the metabolic regime of society have always involved transformations of notions of the human, I conclude by sketching out a different way of reading and writing the weather, one that takes place in the ‘opening’ of climate change, that problematizes the idea of the human as the end of nature, and that thereby implies a more radical version of climate responsibility.

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Tracing the Sphinx from symbol to specters: reflections on the organization of geographies of concern

Riad

Jack

2020

Culture and Organization

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Non‐origin of Species

Cited by 3 publications

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InvokingBlack Athenaand its debates

InvokingBlack Athenaand its debates

Reading and Writing the Weather

Tracing the Sphinx from symbol to specters: reflections on the organization of geographies of concern

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