N. Harding
Towards a performative theory of resistance: Senior managers and revolting subject(ivitie)s
Harding, N.; Ford, J.; Lee, H.
Abstract
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.
Journal Article Type | Article |
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Acceptance Date | Aug 14, 2016 |
Online Publication Date | Feb 2, 2017 |
Publication Date | Sep 1, 2017 |
Deposit Date | Sep 12, 2017 |
Publicly Available Date | Nov 1, 2017 |
Journal | Organization Studies |
Print ISSN | 0170-8406 |
Electronic ISSN | 1741-3044 |
Publisher | SAGE Publications |
Peer Reviewed | Peer Reviewed |
Volume | 38 |
Issue | 9 |
Pages | 1209-1232 |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1177/0170840616685360 |
Public URL | https://durham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1376643 |
Related Public URLs | https://bradscholars.brad.ac.uk/handle/10454/8820 |
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Harding, N., Ford, J. & Lee, H. (2017). Towards a performative theory of resistance: Senior managers and revolting subject(ivitie)s. Organization Studies 38(9): 1209-1232. Copyright © The Author(s) 2017. Reprinted by permission of SAGE Publications.
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