With the margins: Writing subaltern resistance and social transformation

With the margins: Writing subaltern resistance and social transformation

In this study, we surface the problems of representation mainstream organizational theory encounters in documenting and telling accounts of subaltern actors and social transformation. We explore how writing practices that draw on feminist postcolonial literary traditions can transform organizational...

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Published in:Gender, work, and organization work, and organization, 2021-03, Vol.28 (2), p.481-496
Main Authors: Vijay, Devi, Gupta, Shalini, Kaushiva, Pavni
Format: Article
Language:eng
Subjects:
Academic staff
Feminism
Happiness
India
Institutional theory
literary writing
Organization theory
Organizational change
Postcolonialism
Resistance
Social change
Social problems
solidarity
subaltern
Subaltern identities
Traditions
Transformation
Transgression
Writing
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Summary:In this study, we surface the problems of representation mainstream organizational theory encounters in documenting and telling accounts of subaltern actors and social transformation. We explore how writing practices that draw on feminist postcolonial literary traditions can transform organizational studies of social change. Drawing on three literary texts—Mahasweta Devi's Draupadi, Urmila Pawar's The Weave of My Life, and Arundhati Roy's Ministry of Utmost Happiness—we reflect on how we may represent the lives of others. Inspired by these three writers, we suggest solidaristic transgression, unsettled habitation, and counter‐discursive memory work as three modes of engagement that challenge us as academics writing for change.
ISSN:0968-6673
1468-0432