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Appropriating the abject: an anthropophagic approach to organizational diversity

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  • Gazi Islam

    (MC - Management et Comportement - EESC-GEM Grenoble Ecole de Management)

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This paper discusses the concept of organizational anthropophagy, a metaphor describing a unique relationship between identity and otherness. To show how this perspective contributes to understandings of diversity and difference, I read anthropophagy against psychoanalytic discussions of abjection, a process where individuals are simultaneously fascinated by, drawn towards, and horrified by their relationships to outside "others". Stemming from the global periphery, anthropophagy provides a way to combine psychoanalytic with sociological views of otherness. I stress the implications of the anthropophagic approach for organizational theorizing of the "monstrous", placing monstrousness against the political economic context of post-coloniality and discussing its relations with diversity and difference.

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  • Gazi Islam, 2014. "Appropriating the abject: an anthropophagic approach to organizational diversity," Post-Print hal-00969258, HAL.
    • Handle: RePEc:hal:journl:hal-00969258
    DOI: 10.1108/EDI-03-2012-0023
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    1. Rodolphe Durand & Roland Calori, 2006. "Sameness, Otherness? Enriching organizational change theories with philosophical considerations on the same and the other," Post-Print hal-00459454, HAL.
    2. Rodolphe Durand & Roland Calori, 2006. "Sameness, Otherness? Enriching organizational change theories with philosophical considerations on the same and the other," Post-Print hal-02311728, HAL.
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    1. Islam, Gazi, 2015. "A taste for otherness: Anthropophagy and the embodied self in organizations," Scandinavian Journal of Management, Elsevier, vol. 31(3), pages 351-361.

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