Un/doing Chrononormativity: Negotiating Ageing, Gender and Sexuality in Organizational Life

被引:85
作者
Riach, Kathleen [1 ]
Rumens, Nicholas [2 ]
Tyler, Melissa [3 ]
机构
[1] Monash Univ, Melbourne, Vic 3004, Australia
[2] Middlesex Univ, London N17 8HR, England
[3] Univ Essex, Essex Business Sch, Colchester CO4 3SQ, Essex, England
关键词
age; Butler; chrononormativity; gender; LGBT sexualities; performativity; SOCIAL IDENTITIES; OLDER LESBIANS; GAY; PERFORMATIVITY; DISCRIMINATION; IDENTIFICATION; POWER; AGE; INTERSECTIONALITY; CONSTRUCTION;
D O I
10.1177/0170840614550731
中图分类号
C93 [管理学];
学科分类号
12 ; 1201 ; 1202 ; 120202 ;
摘要
This paper is based on a series of anti-narrative' interviews designed to explore the ways in which lived experiences of age, gender and sexuality are negotiated and narrated within organizations in later life. It draws on Judith Butler's performative ontology of gender, particularly her account of the ways in which the desire for recognition is shaped by heteronormativity, considering its implications for how we study ageing and organizations. In doing so, the paper develops a critique of the impact of heteronormative life course expectations on the negotiation of viable subjectivity within organizational settings. Focusing on the ways in which chrononormativity' shapes the lived experiences of ageing within organizations, at the same time as constituting an organizing process in itself, the paper draws on Butler's concept of un/doing' in its analysis of the simultaneously affirming and negating organizational experiences of older self-identifying LGBT people. The paper concludes by emphasizing the theoretical potential of a performative ontology of ageing, gender and sexuality for organization studies, as well as the methodological insights to be derived from an anti-narrative' approach to organizational research, arguing for the need to develop a more inclusive politics of ageing within both organizational practice and research.
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页码:1677 / 1698
页数:22
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