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Publication date: 11 April 2017

Ngaire Bissett

This chapter addresses growing concerns that, despite being a radically intentioned community, Critical Management Studies (CMS) lacks an orientation to achieve pragmatic change…

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This chapter addresses growing concerns that, despite being a radically intentioned community, Critical Management Studies (CMS) lacks an orientation to achieve pragmatic change. In response I argue that the failure to address the continuing marginalisation of the subaltern is key to CMS being negatively represented as an elitist self-preoccupied endeavour. This state of affairs is linked to a legacy of the ‘postmodern’ turn, which emerged in the 1980s and 1990s, as evidenced by the nature of contemporary debates continuing to reflect the stylistic fetishes of that time. I contend that the ghost of postmodernism is evident in the continuing predilection to produce signification discourses marked by symbolic absences, which politically confine such texts to the level of epistemology. The lack of integration of ontological concerns means that corporeal aspects of daily life are neglected, resulting in an abstracted ‘subjectless’ mode of representation. To address these limitations, a feminist activist version of post-structuralism (PSF) of the time is revisited, which through its distinctive attention to community concerns, enabled the linking of epistemological and ontological representations; thereby facilitating the creation of a framework for pragmatic change. As the chapter demonstrates, by drawing attention to the integral relationship between the modes of representation, power relations and subsequent social effects, poststructuralist feminists were able to achieve praxis outcomes. Accordingly, I argue this treasure house of ideas needs to be reclaimed and provides illustrations of the design principles proffered to support my contentions.

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Feminists and Queer Theorists Debate the Future of Critical Management Studies
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ISBN: 978-1-78635-498-3

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Stem-Professional Women’s Exclusion in the Canadian Space Industry
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ISBN: 978-1-78769-570-2

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Publication date: 31 December 2003

Marta B Calás and Linda Smircich

In a paper written for a theory development forum (Calás & Smircich, 1999) we insisted that the postmodern moment, in its association with poststructuralist analyses, brought much…

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In a paper written for a theory development forum (Calás & Smircich, 1999) we insisted that the postmodern moment, in its association with poststructuralist analyses, brought much of value to organization and management studies. At the time we observed that although such a moment may have already passed, its traces continued to be seen and expressed in several important intellectual developments. In particular, we identified poststructuralist feminist theories, postcolonial theory, actor-network theory, and narrative approaches to theory as productive heirs of the postmodern moment in organization and management studies.

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Post Modernism and Management
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ISBN: 978-1-84950-573-4

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Publication date: 30 March 2020

Elaine Yerby

Career management research and literature has been slow to respond to the rise of the gig economy. Perhaps in part due to the temporal, flexible and shifting nature of the gig…

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Career management research and literature has been slow to respond to the rise of the gig economy. Perhaps in part due to the temporal, flexible and shifting nature of the gig economy, there could be an assumption that the boundaryless and protean career management models that have dominated careers thinking for nearly 30 years retain and extend their applicability. However, whilst there is clear resonance with discourses such as boundaryless, portfolio and protean careers within the gig economy, this chapter will argue these models cannot adequately address female career management experiences. Through a feminist poststructuralist and intersectional lens, the concept of the frayed career is advocated as a more useful approach for understanding the impact of gender and intersecting subject positions on career management experiences. With growing numbers of women employed in the gig economy and in addressing calls for a greater focus on gender and intersecting identities on the experiences of gig work, this chapter analyses the role of gender, ethnicity and class and career management outcomes in the gig economy amongst Human Resources professionals. The frayed career concept is used to demonstrate how gig work can be incorporated into the rhythmicity of a career and how shifting intersectional positions can reveal alternative discourses of privilege and precarity from the otherwise assumed position of multiple disadvantage. In doing so there is an opportunity to reflect on appropriate career management guidance for women in the gig economy beyond the dichotomous positions of privilege or disadvantage and career solutions based on Westernised linear career ideals.

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Conflict and Shifting Boundaries in the Gig Economy: An Interdisciplinary Analysis
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ISBN: 978-1-83867-604-9

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Publication date: 5 July 2017

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Insights and Research on the Study of Gender and Intersectionality in International Airline Cultures
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ISBN: 978-1-78714-546-7

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Special Issue: Feminist Legal Theory
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ISBN: 978-1-78560-782-0

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Publication date: 7 July 2004

Stacy Holman Jones

This piece is inspired, informed, and indebted to several of Laurel Richardson’s essays, including, “Resisting Resistance Narratives: A Representation for Communication,”…

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This piece is inspired, informed, and indebted to several of Laurel Richardson’s essays, including, “Resisting Resistance Narratives: A Representation for Communication,” “Afterwords: Replay,” “Afterwords: ‘Louisa May’ and Me,” “Speakers Whose Voices Matter,” “Writing Matters,” “Postmodern Social Theory: Representational Practices,” “Poetics, Dramatics, and Transgressive Validity: ‘The Case of the Skipped Line,’” “Educational Birds,” “The Collective Story: Presidential Address, North Central Sociological Association,” and “Afterwords: Sacred Spaces,” all from Fields of Play (1997) and “My Left Hand: Socialization and the Interrupted Life” (2000), “Meta-Jeopardy” (1998a) and “Politics of Location: Where Am I Now?” (1998b), all published in Qualitative Inquiry. This text is a response to Richardson’s (1997) invitation to experiment with form in order to create a “new communal understanding of what constitutes sociological ‘knowledge,’” an understanding that shows, performs (p. 80). My words are an offering, a small portrait of how Richardson’s feminism, both on and off the page, has shaped my understanding of our world and the place of a woman writing in it, of it.

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Studies in Symbolic Interaction
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ISBN: 978-1-84950-261-0

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Insights and Research on the Study of Gender and Intersectionality in International Airline Cultures
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ISBN: 978-1-78714-546-7

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Lived Realities of Solo Motherhood, Donor Conception and Medically Assisted Reproduction
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ISBN: 978-1-83909-115-5

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Insights and Research on the Study of Gender and Intersectionality in International Airline Cultures
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ISBN: 978-1-78714-546-7

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