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8 - Towards a Crinicultural Activism in Organization

from Part II - Re-orienting Critique in Organization Studies? Exploring Jointly Time and Politics

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 June 2023

By
Damian O’Doherty
Edited by
François-Xavier de Vaujany ,
Robin Holt  and
Albane Grandazzi
François-Xavier de Vaujany
Affiliation:
Universite Paris Dauphine-PSL
Robin Holt
Affiliation:
Copenhagen Business School
Albane Grandazzi
Affiliation:
Grenoble Ecole de Management
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Summary

Poised between attentive ethnography and urgent critique, the chapter asks whether politics can be re thought by combining or seeing the connections between phenomena normally considered irrelevant and separated by scale. Specifically the politics that might emerge from a haircut. By tracing unruly affects and effects of the radiate outwards from the material presence of a bob cut.

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hairmaterialitypoliticsactivismethnography
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Organization as Time
Technology, Power and Politics
 , pp. 156 - 182
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2023

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