Organization encounters a new virus: A cautionary tale of othering and (not) learning

被引:2
作者
Riad, Sally [1 ,2 ]
机构
[1] Victoria Univ Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand
[2] Victoria Univ Wellington, POB 600, Wellington 6140, New Zealand
关键词
Knowledge relations; othering; pandemic management; Politics; tensions; virus; CRITICAL MANAGEMENT; IDENTITY; ETHICS; HERO; SELF; FEAR;
D O I
10.1177/13505076231152722
中图分类号
C93 [管理学];
学科分类号
12 ; 1201 ; 1202 ; 120202 ;
摘要
The world's dire experience with a new coronavirus has shown that the (re)organization embedded in managing a virus and knowledge on organization(s) and management are out of joint. This article entwines life story into reflections on the pandemic to illustrate how knowledge relations are afflicted by othering that constrains learning and facilitates the conditions of possibility for precarious pandemics. In doing so, the account scrutinizes both knowledge activities and domains of scholarship as it navigates tensions between the works of Latour and Foucault. The article is structured into four parts. Theoria focuses on the textual body and the politics of 'willful blindness' that segregate the 'theoretical other'; Praxis addresses the human body, operational knowledge and the 'everyday geopolitics of fear' that heroicize the 'essential other'; Regimen examines the social body, regulatory knowledge and the 'political economy of truth' that contests the 'prescribing other' and Poiesis addresses the global body, productive knowledge and the international geopolitics that distance the cultural and national other. Each activity poses relational tensions that confront organization which compel us to extend organizational scholarship in ways that facilitate its articulation with scholarship on the virus and invite us to approach knowledge on pandemic (re)organization as a joint cause.
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页数:27
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