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Beyond macro- and micro-emancipation : rethinking emancipation in organization studies

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Date
2014
Link to item file
https://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/halshs-00804129
Dewey
Sociologie économique
Sujet
critical management studies; Jacques Rancière; emancipation
JEL code
D01; P16; P49
Journal issue
Organization
Volume
21
Number
1
Publication date
2014
Article pages
22-49
Publisher
Sage
DOI
http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1350508412461292
URI
https://basepub.dauphine.fr/handle/123456789/10845
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Author
Huault, Isabelle
Perret, Véronique
Spicer, André
Type
Article accepté pour publication ou publié
Abstract (EN)
Organizational life is replete with claims for emancipation. Existing approaches understand these claims either through theories of macro-emancipation (which focus on larger social structural challenges) or micro-emancipation (which focus on everyday challenges). However, these theories fundamentally misrecognize many emancipatory challenges in organizations. Drawing on the work of Jacques Rancière, we argue that this philosophy is fertile for shifting or unframing traditional approaches of emancipation in organization studies. Emancipation is triggered by the assertion of equality in the face of institutionalized patterns of inequality, it works through a process of articulating dissensus, and it creates a redistribution of what is considered to be sensible. By focusing on these three aspects, we argue that a whole range of emancipatory struggles which had previously been disregarded by studies of macro-emancipation and micro-emancipation come back into view. This significantly extends how we conceptualize emancipation in organizations and allows us to address some of the shortcomings of existing theories.

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