dc.contributor.author | Kenny, Kate | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2012-04-27T10:39:59Z | |
dc.date.available | 2012-04-27T10:39:59Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2010-03-19 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Kenny, K. M. (2010). Beyond ourselves: Passion and the dark side of identification in an ethical organization. Human Relations, 63(6), 857–873. https://doi.org/10.1177/0018726709345042 | en_US |
dc.identifier.issn | 1741-282X | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10379/2698 | |
dc.description.abstract | How are organizational discourses enacted by people at work? In this article, instead of treating subjects as somewhat distinct from such discourses, I argue that the two are inescapably intertwined. The concept of 'ek-stasis' helps us to understand this. Ekstasis invokes an idea of the 'self' that, through processes of identification, is always located outside of itself, embedded in a wider sociality. I explore this dynamic through an in-depth study of the powerful discourse of 'ethical living', and its enactment in one contemporary development sector organization, EWH. This ek-static enactment was somewhat ambivalent: involving mutual recognition between colleagues, but also processes of exclusion and policing. I highlight how attention to feeling and passion was important in understanding the relation between workplace discourse and identification processes, in this setting. This study shows that a view of workplace selves as ek-static is useful for understanding the enactment of discourse at work, and that this enactment can be both passionate and ambivalent. | en_US |
dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
dc.relation.ispartof | Human Relations | en |
dc.rights | Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Ireland | |
dc.rights.uri | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ie/ | |
dc.subject | Gender theory | en_US |
dc.subject | Identification | en_US |
dc.subject | Organization studies | en_US |
dc.subject | Participant observation | en_US |
dc.subject | Passion | en_US |
dc.subject | Subjection | en_US |
dc.subject | Discourse | en_US |
dc.subject | Subjectivities | en_US |
dc.subject | Management | en_US |
dc.subject | Identity | en_US |
dc.subject | Project | en_US |
dc.subject | Power | en_US |
dc.subject | Self | en_US |
dc.title | Beyond ourselves: Passion and the dark side of identification in an ethical organization | en_US |
dc.type | Article | en_US |
dc.date.updated | 2012-04-26T15:13:38Z | |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1177/0018726709345042 | |
dc.local.publishedsource | http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0018726709345042 | en_US |
dc.description.peer-reviewed | peer-reviewed | |
dc.internal.rssid | 1137832 | |
dc.local.contact | Kate Kenny, School Of Political Science, & Sociology, Room 220, Aras Moyola, Nui Galway. 5401 Email: kate.kenny@nuigalway.ie | |
dc.local.copyrightchecked | Yes | |
dc.local.version | ACCEPTED | |
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