Towards a Performative Theory of Resistance: Senior Managers and Revolting Subject(ivitie)s

This article develops a performative theory of resistance. It uses Judith Butler’s and Karen Barad’s theories of performativity to explore how resistance (to organizational strategies and policies) and resistants (those who resist such strategies and policies) co-emerge, within and through complex i...

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Vydané v:Organization studies Ročník 38; číslo 9; s. 1209 - 1232
Hlavní autori: Harding, Nancy Helen, Ford, Jackie, Lee, Hugh
Médium: Journal Article
Jazyk:English
Vydavateľské údaje: London, England SAGE Publications 01.09.2017
Sage Publications Ltd
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Butler, Judith
Case studies
Discourses
Identity
Implementation
Interviews
Management
Materials
Organization studies
Organization theory
Organizational power
Performativity
Power
Resistance
Self concept
Senior managers
Strategic planning
Talent management
Theory
Barad
senior managers
new materialism
Butler
performativity
resistance
ISSN:0170-8406, 1741-3044
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Shrnutí:This article develops a performative theory of resistance. It uses Judith Butler’s and Karen Barad’s theories of performativity to explore how resistance (to organizational strategies and policies) and resistants (those who resist such strategies and policies) co-emerge, within and through complex intra-actions of entangled discourses, materialities, affect and space/time. The article uses empirical materials from a case study of the implementation of a talent management strategy. We analyse interviews with the senior managers charged with implementing the strategy, the influence of material, non-sentient actors, and the experiences of the researchers when carrying out the interviews. This leads to a theory that resistance and resistants emerge in moment-to-moment co-constitutive moves that may be invoked when identity or self is put in jeopardy. Resistance, we suggest, is the power (residing with resistants) to say ‘no’ to organizational requirements that would otherwise threaten to render the self abject.
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ISSN:0170-8406
1741-3044
DOI:10.1177/0170840616685360