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Judith Butler and Organization Theory (Paperback)
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Judith Butler and Organization Theory (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Studies in Gender and Organizations
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2020 will mark thirty years since the first publication of Judith
Butler's ground-breaking book, Gender Trouble. Here, and in
subsequent work, Butler argues that gender and other forms of
identity can best be understood as performative acts. These acts
are what bring our subjectivities into existence, enabling us to be
recognized as viable employable social beings, worthy of rights,
responsibilities and respect. The three decades since the
publication of Gender Trouble have witnessed Butler become one of
the most widely cited and controversial figures in contemporary
feminist thinking. While it is only in her most recent work that
Butler has engaged directly with themes such as work and
organization, her writing has profound implications for thinking,
and acting, on the relationship between power, recognition and
organization. Whilst her ideas have made important in-roads into
work, organization and gender studies that are discussed here,
there is considerable scope to explore further avenues that her
concepts and theories open up. These inroads and avenues are the
focus of this book. Judith Butler and Organization Theory makes a
substantial contribution to the analysis of gender, work and
organization. It not only covers central issues in Butler's work,
it also offers a close reading of the complexities and nuances in
her thought. It does so by 'reading' Butler as a theorist of
organization, whose work resonates with scholars, practitioners and
activists concerned to understand and engage with organizational
life, organization and organizing. Drawing from a range of
illustrative examples, the book examines key texts or 'moments' in
the development of Butler's writing to date, positing her as a
thinker concerned to understand and address the ways in which our
most basic desire for recognition comes to be organized within the
context of contemporary labour markets and workplaces. It examines
insights from Butler's work, and the philosophical ideas she draws
on, considering the impact of these on work, organization and
management studies thus far; it also explores some of the many ways
in which her thinking might be mobilized in future, considering
what scope there is for a non-violent ethics of organization, and
for a (re)assembling of the relationship between vulnerability and
resistance within and through organizational politics.
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