Transforming Resistance, Broadening Our Boundaries: Critical Organizational Communication Meets Globalization from Below

Ganesh, Shiv; Zoller, Heather M.; Cheney, George

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“…This might mean missing out on potentially powerful forms of more collective and connected modes of emancipation. It could also lead to a situation where we miss the more universal forms of struggle against managerialism because we are so focused on detailing the minutiae of micro-emancipations in particular localities (Ganesh et al, 2005). The result is that the researcher develops a kind of myopic obsession with differences and locality without considering any important patterns of similarities.…”

Section: Micro-emancipationmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…However, recently we have witnessed some important concerns being raised about this research agenda. In particular, some are concerned that it has constrained how we think about forms of emancipation, creating a myopic focus on smallscale struggles and fundamentally ignoring many of the broader social struggles that challenge management (Ganesh, Zoller and Cheney, 2005). In addition, they have pointed out that a simple division between macro-emancipation and micro-emancipation often ignores many of the important imbrications between the two (Taylor and Bain, 2003;Fleming and Spicer, 2007).…”

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Beyond macro- and micro- emancipation: Rethinking emancipation in organization studies

Huault

Perret

Spicer³

2012

Organization

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This is the accepted version of the paper.This version of the publication may differ from the final published version. Permanent repository link 2 Beyond Macro-and Micro-emancipation: Rethinking Emancipation in Organizations Studies AbstractOrganizational life is repleate with claims for emancipation. Existing approachs understand these claims either through theories of macro-emancipation (which focus on larger social structural challenges) or micro-emancipation (which focus on everyday challenges). However, these theories fundamentally misrecognise many emancipatory challenges in organizations. Drawing on the work of Jacques Rancière, we argue that this philosophy is fertile for shifting or unframing traditional approachs of emancipation in organization studies. Emancipation is triggered by the assertion of equality in the face of institutionalized patterns of inequality, it works through a process of articulating dissensus, and it creates a redistribution of what is considered to be sensible. By focusing on these three aspects, we argue a whole range of emancipatory struggles that had previously been disregarded by studies of macro-emancipation and micro-emancipation come back into view. This significantly extends how we conceptualise emancipation in organizations and allows us to address some of the shortcomings of existing theories.

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Section: Micro-emancipationmentioning

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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Beyond macro- and micro- emancipation: Rethinking emancipation in organization studies

Huault

Perret

Spicer³

2012

Organization

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“…This means that it is "hard to get a sense of how active agential selves 'make a difference' through 'playing' with discursive practices" (Newton 1998: 425-6). Even when Foucauldian researchers have endeavoured to register how 'active agential selves' play with a discourse, they have often focused on individual or at best small group struggles, at the expense of broader collective struggles (Ganesh et al 2005). The result is that Foucauldian approaches are able to tell us a lot about specific micro-political workplace struggles, but they have often side-stepped the collective struggles against the discourses of management in the wider realms of society (Contu 2002;Böhm 2006).…”

Section: Resistance As Micro-politicsmentioning

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Moving Management: Theorizing Struggles against the Hegemony of Management

Spicer

Böhm

2007

Organization Studies

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How do groups resist the apparently all encompassing discourse of management?Rejecting current theories of resistance as 're-appropriation' or 'micro-politics', we argue that resistance may be thought about as hegemonic struggle which are undertaken by social movements. We identify four major resistance movements that engage with management: unions, organizational misbehaviour, civic movements, and civic movement organizations. We argue that these forms of resistance differ in terms of location (civil society or workplace) and strategy (political or infra-political). We chart out the possible interconnections between these different modes of resistance and detail how these interconnections are established. By doing this, the paper provides a framework for understanding the many forms of resistance movements that seek to disrupt the hegemonic discourse of management.

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“…A consciência que hoje se tem da globalização pode ser atribuída em parte ao aumento de interconexão tecnológica e cultural entre as nações e à diminuição das fronteiras, que contribuíram para a expansão do comércio mundial, o que por fim representou as melhores "rotas" para o desenvolvimento econômico global Zoller;Cheney, 2005). Esse cenário levou nações e organizações a estabelecerem acordos internacionais e atuarem na esfera dos negócios nesse mundo mais globalizado.…”

Section: Interculturalidade Nas Organizaçõesunclassified

“…Além disso, as organizações praticamente têm um papel ativo em todas essas esferas, seja como agentes adotando uma perspectiva ou negociando o desenvolvimento sustentável; seja cruzando fronteiras das nações perfazendo negócios; ou como um espaço intercultural para os sujeitos, sendo que essa sua importância é evidenciada na interculturalidade (Barbosa;Veloso, 2007e 2009Zoller;Cheney, 2005) e na sustentabilidade (Vos, 2011;Barkemeyer et al, 2011), justamente por ocupar uma posição-chave dentro das esferas econômica, política, social e ambiental.…”

Section: Organizações Interculturais Em Uma Perspectiva Sustentávelunclassified

Reflexões sobre comunicação nas organizações interculturais em uma perspectiva sustentável

Fernandes

Marchiori

2014

Organicom

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ResumoCom a globalização, as organizações são simultaneamente agentes e espaços interculturais que demandam sujeitos em processo de interculturalidade. Nessa dinâmica estão implícitos desafios que requerem a participação dos sujeitos em interação, a qual tem a comunicação como produtora de sentidos na construção de realidades interculturais organizacionais. Nesse contexto, somam-se as demandas do desenvolvimento sustentável, as quais requerem sujeitos em processos interculturais de negociação, cujas atitudes preservam o futuro. Assim, esse ensaio teórico objetiva-se em apontar caminhos em construção, para as demandas dessas esferas que têm na organização sua peça-chave. PALAVRAS-CHAVE: INTERCULTURALIDADE • SUSTENTABILIDADE • COMUNICAÇÃO. AbstractWith the advent of globalization, organizations become simultaneously intercultural agents and spaces that demand individuals that are undergoing a process of interculturality. In these dynamics there are implicit challenges that require the participation of the interacting individuals, which has communication as a producer of meanings in the construction of intercultural organizational realities. In this context, one must add the demands of sustainable development which require individuals undergoing intercultural processes of negotiation, whose attitudes preserve the future. Thus, this theoretical essay aims at showing the ways under construction, for the demands of such spheres which have the organization as the main key. ResumenCon la globalización, las organizaciones son simultáneamente agentes y espacios interculturales que demandan sujetos en proceso de interculturalidad. En esta dinámica están implícitos los desafíos que requieren la participación de los sujetos en interacción, en la cual se tiene a la comunicación como productora de sentidos en la construcción de realidades interculturales organizacionales. En este contexto súmanse las demandas del desenvolvimiento sustentable que requieren los sujetos en procesos interculturales, cuyas actitudes preservan el futuro. Por lo tanto, este ensayo teórico tiene el objetivo de mostrar caminos en construcción, para las demandas de estas esferas que tienen en la organización su pieza clave.

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Transforming Resistance, Broadening Our Boundaries: Critical Organizational Communication Meets Globalization from Below

Cited by 98 publications

References 52 publications

Beyond macro- and micro- emancipation: Rethinking emancipation in organization studies

Beyond macro- and micro- emancipation: Rethinking emancipation in organization studies

Moving Management: Theorizing Struggles against the Hegemony of Management

Reflexões sobre comunicação nas organizações interculturais em uma perspectiva sustentável

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