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Speaking Up in a Brave New World: Recontextualizing HRD in Postemotional Society

In: The Palgrave Handbook of Critical Human Resource Development

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  • Jamie L. Callahan

    (Durham University Business School)

Abstract

The novel Brave New World by Aldous Huxley (Brave New World & Brave New World Revisited. Harper & Row Publishers, Inc., 1932/1965) is a cautionary tale of the implications of totalitarianism, technology, capitalism, and mass media that appear today in the form of neoliberal managerialism. Mirroring Huxley’s predictions, one of the hallmarks of contemporary society is a world awash in manufactured emotion and devoid of authentic emotion; Stjepan Meštrović (Postemotional society. Sage, 1997) calls this postemotionalism. Inspired by Huxley’s prescient dystopian fiction, this chapter recontextualizes CHRD within a postemotional society. It juxtaposes institutional phenomenon with the other-directedness, mechanization of emotion, and voyeuristic inaction of postemotionalism and proposes mechanisms of resistance associated with CHRD practice areas of relating, organizing, learning, changing, and advocating.

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  • Jamie L. Callahan, 2023. "Speaking Up in a Brave New World: Recontextualizing HRD in Postemotional Society," Springer Books, in: Joshua C. Collins & Jamie L. Callahan (ed.), The Palgrave Handbook of Critical Human Resource Development, chapter 0, pages 17-28, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:sprchp:978-3-031-10453-4_2
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-10453-4_2
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