Thinking critically about affect in organization studies: Why it matters

Fotaki, Marianna; Kenny, Kate; Vachhani, Sheena J

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“…Within such a paradigm, affective labour remains not just unremunerated but also under-theorized as a disciplinary tool of management (Fotaki et al, 2017). The White academy, as a locus of affective labour that is managed and manipulated, is equally under-explored in management theory in relationship to the academy as a racialized entity.…”

Section: The Body Of the Blackened 'Other' In The White Academymentioning

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“…We then discuss the idea of governmentality alongside the notion of affectivity and review the role of shame as a tool in management literature thus contributing to recent engagements with the role of affect in organizations (Ashcraft, 2017;Beavan, 2019;Fotaki, Kenny, & Vachhani, 2017;Kantola, Seeck, & Mannevuo, 2019). We firstly explore the affective regime as a mode of governmentality which produces a space of violence where egalitarian policies and rhetoric criss-cross the Blackened gendered body, retaining it as a contested site between reality and the production of equality as a form of management fiction.…”

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“…In the next section we discuss how the Blackened body configures as a form of representational abstraction and tokenism where she symbolizes a body that is disciplined and diminished. We then discuss the idea of governmentality alongside the notion of affectivity and review the role of shame as a tool in management literature thus contributing to recent engagements with the role of affect in organizations (Ashcraft, 2017;Beavan, 2019;Fotaki, Kenny, & Vachhani, 2017;Kantola, Seeck, & Mannevuo, 2019). Before discussing the central premise of co-production of shame in the academy, we delve into the historical depiction of the Blackened body as 'lack' in the academy.…”

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The Blackened body and White governmentality: Managing the UK academy and the production of shame

Dar

Ibrahim

2019

Gender Work & Organization

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In this article, we conceptualize the production of shame in the Blackened body as a mechanism of White governmentality in UK academia. By identifying shame as a racist anti‐woman form of governmentality that is utilized by universities to silence, alienate and degrade women of colour, we conceive how shame is imposed on her body as a form of disciplining by the White academy. We term this governmentality of recoding her corporeal body and affectivity as pornographic in its capacity and quest to possess her body and manipulate her senses. This recoding occurs within a libidinal economy that structures psychic and emotional life. For management, disciplining the racialized woman derives both pleasure and shame. For the racialized subject, the shame is carried in her body and transformed from a pornography to a psychology of power in which she re‐narrates herself as a body in deficit; lacking networks, motivation, likeability and so on. We posit that understanding the production of shame as a mode of disciplining of the Blackened body in the White academy provides a means for recovery, agency and solidarity for the Blackened body.

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Section: The Body Of the Blackened 'Other' In The White Academymentioning

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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2019

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“…Hjorth (2013) has drawn attention to the way new states of becoming (Fotaki et al, 2017). A Lacanian perspective adds to this by specifying the 'unsettling' as anxiety.…”

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Entrepreneurship, incongruence and affect: Drawing insights from a Swedish anti-racist organisation

Dashtipour

Rumens

2017

Organization

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) Entrepreneurship, incongruence and affect: drawing insights from a Swedish anti-racist organization. Organization (in press). AbstractIn recent years, entrepreneurship has been reconceptualised as social change.Understood as such, entrepreneurship can be viewed to disrupt and disturb the social order. We argue in this paper that Foucault's notion of heterotopia and Lacan's concepts of the real and anxiety help us to conceptualize the disturbing aspect of entrepreneurship as social change, and understand why the latter may encounter social resistance. Our contribution to critical entrepreneurship literature is to first emphasise that entrepreneurship instigates social change by introducing incongruence, and second, to highlight that this process can be affective: it can create anxiety. The paper uses an illustrative historical case-example of a Swedish anti-racist commercial magazine (Gringo) to elucidate these points. We conclude by pointing out that anxiety may be necessary for the provocation of social transformation.

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“…El estudio de los afectos desde estas alternativas teóricas también ha permeado los estudios organizacionales, de los que se han derivado diversas líneas de investigación y propuestas para analizar de manera crítica las emociones (Anderson, 2009(Anderson, , 2014Borch, 2010;Dashtipour & Vidaillet, 2017;Fotaki, Kenny, & Vachhani, 2017;Kenny & Fotaki, 2014;Michels & Steyaert, 2017). No obstante, en la literatura de la administración y organizaciones, el comportamiento organizacional se encuentra como el principal marco analítico para el estudio de las emociones (Barling & Cooper, 2008;Gooty, Gavin, & Ashkanasy, 2009;Schaubroeck & Jones, 2000).…”

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Construcción social del miedo en el trabajo: análisis desde la noción de atmósfera afectiva

Dorado

2019

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La vida en el trabajo constituye una fuente de experiencias que son significadas y construidas por los sujetos para organizar y explicar su mundo social. Entre estas experiencias se encuentran las emociones, las cuales tienen implicaciones para el trabajo. El estudio de las emociones durante las últimas décadas ha transitado por diversos dominios teóricos, que han involucrado a la idea de la construcción social de la realidad centrada en el lenguaje, la semiótica de la materialidad, la teoría del actor-red y la performatividad. Este artículo tiene como objetivo analizar cómo se construye el miedo en el trabajo. Para ello, la investigación se abordó desde una apuesta cualitativa, en la que se empleó el análisis del discurso como método de investigación. El análisis se inserta en la propuesta teórica de atmósfera afectiva, y de afectividad colectiva de la psicología social. Los resultados permitieron develar que el miedo es co-construido en el contexto del trabajo como una hibridación entre un discurso del cuerpo como materialidad, y un discurso de pensamientos y sentimientos como dimensión social. Este afecto se moviliza y se configura en el entramado de las relaciones sociales del sistema sociomaterial que constituyen las atmósferas afectivas de los trabajadores. Asimismo, se identificó que el miedo es un fenómeno diverso, narrado bajo formas estéticas que recrean las experiencias y la vida en el trabajo.

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Thinking critically about affect in organization studies: Why it matters

Cited by 150 publications

References 76 publications

The Blackened body and White governmentality: Managing the UK academy and the production of shame

The Blackened body and White governmentality: Managing the UK academy and the production of shame

Entrepreneurship, incongruence and affect: Drawing insights from a Swedish anti-racist organisation

Construcción social del miedo en el trabajo: análisis desde la noción de atmósfera afectiva

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