Reassembling difference? Rethinking inclusion through/as embodied ethics

Tyler, Melissa

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“…Organization studies scholarship has begun to theorize spatial forms of resistance to neoliberal capitalism (Courpasson, Dany, & Delbridge, 2017;Daskalaki & Kokkinidis, 2017;Fernández, Martí, & Farchi, 2017;Mumby, Thomas, Martí, & Seidl, 2017;Reedy, King, & Coupland, 2016). However, there are few accounts of women's contributions to these movements (Tyler, 2019;Vachhani & Pullen, 2019), and these rarely, if at all, address embodied opposition (or struggle) in the organization of resistance (Elidrissi & Courpasson, 2019). As a result, resistance spaces possessing 'structure and orientation by virtue of the presence of the human body' (Tuan, 1979, p. 389; see also Butler, 2015) remain largely unconceptualized in management and organization studies.…”

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Politicizing the Body in the Anti-Mining Protest in Greece

Fotaki

Daskalaki

2020

Organization Studies

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Although organization and management scholars are beginning to research opposition and dissent emerging in response to the global financial crisis, there are few accounts or feminist analyses of social movements and women’s mobilizations as an important part of these movements. We address this gap by considering a case of women activists opposing extractivist mining in Chalkidiki, Greece, to demonstrate their crucial role in initiating and organizing resistance within their communities. Drawing theoretical inspiration from social reproduction theory and the literature on embodied protest as a form of political action, we argue that women use diverse means to promote the politics of visibility, erasing public and private distinctions as they defend their communities’ right to live in unpolluted environments. By way of contribution, we enhance understanding of the role of affective embodiment as a foundation for activist feminist practices; develop a theory of the protesting body altering spatial relations as a means to oppose the neoliberal assault on life and environment; and suggest how this might prefigure new political practices in the context of social movements. We identify the implications of this theorization and call for academics’ deeper sustained engagement in activism.

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Politicizing the Body in the Anti-Mining Protest in Greece

Fotaki

Daskalaki

2020

Organization Studies

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“…These articles discuss an embodied ethics of feminist activism and encourage consideration of the interplay between individual actions and collective responsibility by reflecting on contemporary examples of feminist solidarity (see e.g. Tyler 2019; Vachhani and Pullen 2019).…”

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Dangerous Knowledge: The Political, Personal, and Epistemological Promise of Feminist Research in Management and Organization Studies

Bell

Meriläinen

Taylor

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Int J Management Reviews

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Feminism is a theoretical perspective and social movement that seeks to reduce, and ultimately eradicate, sexist inequality and oppression. Yet feminist research remains marginal in the most prestigious management and organization studies (MOS) journals, as defined by the Financial Times 50 (FT50) list. Based on a review of how feminism is framed in these journals (1990-2018), we identify three overlapping categories of how feminism is represented: (i) as a conceptual resource which is used to address specific topics; (ii) as an empirical category associated with the study of specific types of organization or organizing practice; and, rarely, (iii) as a methodology for producing knowledge. While feminist knowledge exists beyond these parameters, such as in the journal Gender, Work & Organization, we suggest that the relative absence of explicitly feminist scholarship in the most prestigious MOS journals reflects an epistemic oppression which arises from the threat that feminism presents to established ways of knowing. Drawing on Sara Ahmed's work, we use the 'sweaty concept' of dangerous knowledge to show how feminism positions knowledge as personal, introducing a radical form of researcher subjectivity which relies on the acknowledgment of uncertainty. We conclude by calling for the epistemic oppression of feminist scholarship to be recognized and redressed so the potential of feminism as a way of knowing about organizations and management can be realized. This, we argue, would enable feminist research praxis in MOS to develop as an alternative location of, in bell hooks' term, healing that challenges the main/malestream.

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“…1993b), Thinking the Difference (Irigaray 1994), and Democracy Begins Between Two (Irigaray 2000b), in particular, draw on the development and practical implications of a theory of sexual difference for feminist politics, sexed rights and democratic culture (Ziarek 2001). Debates surrounding the politics of difference have arguably paid more attention to differences between groups which have resulted in the problematic homogenisation of identity and culture of any group to which particular or special rights might be ascribed (Deutscher 2002;see Ashcraft 2009;Grosser 2016;Tyler 2018). As Hekman (1999, p. 11) discusses, a culture of difference involves the idea that differences involve power and, "If we challenge those differences by asserting their opposites, the challenge is necessarily parasitic on the difference itself, not an escape from it."…”

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“…#MeToo, as a movement beyond a hashtag, and Sisters Uncut engage in different forms of democratic ethics that challenge the context and framework for understanding difference, and more fully appreciate the complexities of women's differences within the structures they are a part (Irigaray 2000b). Sisters Uncut, in particular, provides insight into ways in which difference can be tactically and reflexively mobilised (Tyler 2018) through collective acts as a rethinking of radical democracy, by using shock, protests and accountability-driven practices. Global and local initiatives such as these cases may offer new modes of life, through imaginary and symbolic identifications, as Ziarek imagines.…”

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Envisioning a Democratic Culture of Difference: Feminist Ethics and the Politics of Dissent in Social Movements

Vachhani

2019

J Bus Ethics

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Using two contemporary cases of the global #MeToo movement and UK-based collective Sisters Uncut, this paper argues that a more in-depth and critical concern with gendered difference is necessary for understanding radical democratic ethics, one that advances and develops current understandings of business ethics. It draws on practices of social activism and dissent through the context of Irigaray's later writing on democratic politics and Ziarek's analysis of dissensus and democracy that proceeds from an emphasis on alterity as the capacity to transform nonappropriative self-other relations. Therefore, the aims of the paper are: (i) to develop a deeper understanding of a culture of difference and to consider sexual difference as central to the development of a practical democratic ethics and politics of organizations; (ii) to explore two key cases of contemporary feminist social movements that demonstrate connected yet contrasting examples of how feminist politics develops through an appreciation of embodied, intercorporeal differences; and (iii) to extend insights from Irigaray and Ziarek to examine ways in which a practical democratic politics proceeding from an embodied ethics of difference forms an important advancement to theorising the connection between ethics, dissent and democracy.

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Reassembling difference? Rethinking inclusion through/as embodied ethics

Cited by 66 publications

References 57 publications

Politicizing the Body in the Anti-Mining Protest in Greece

Politicizing the Body in the Anti-Mining Protest in Greece

Dangerous Knowledge: The Political, Personal, and Epistemological Promise of Feminist Research in Management and Organization Studies

Envisioning a Democratic Culture of Difference: Feminist Ethics and the Politics of Dissent in Social Movements

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