通向堕落的两条路,通向乌托邦的两条路:另类组织的不纯粹批判表演性

IF 3.3 3区 管理学 Q2 MANAGEMENT Organization Pub Date : 2024-01-30 DOI:10.1177/13505084231223639
Genevieve Shanahan
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有时,另类组织似乎注定要使其旨在变革的制度永久化,因为避免被收编的努力意味着从社会变革所需的参与中退缩。于是,学者们面临着一个两难的选择:我们是揭示现有替代性组织的这些退化过程并强化幻灭感,还是避免这种批评并支持无效的策略?为了解决这个问题,我借鉴了埃里克-奥林-赖特(Erik Olin Wright)对另类组织所采取的两大社会转型策略的鉴定。共生战略是那些旨在通过渐进式改革改变现有制度的战略,如工会的集体谈判。与此相反,间歇性战略则是那些更为激进的方法,旨在预设解放性的替代制度,如互助网络。本文提出的第一个贡献是将这些社会转型战略与不同形式的退化相映射,将其理解为霸权体系的无意识复制。采用共生策略的组织特别容易受到研究较多的退化形式的影响,这些退化形式是与霸权体系部分接轨的结果--我称之为 "暴露退化"。而采用间隙战略的组织则容易受到研究较少的退化形式的影响,这些退化形式是由于与霸权体系的接触不足造成的--我称之为绝缘退化。虽然这种模式似乎让另类组织陷入了困境,但我从表演性理论中汲取了更有希望的视角,这些理论强调了社会变革机构与社会再生产之间的关系。揭开表演性的必要杂质,可以引出本文的第二个贡献:虽然另类组织的实践者和学者只能通过不纯粹的批判表演性来追求社会转型,但意识到这一限制可以促进对剩余的行动范围的反思。
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Two routes to degeneration, two routes to utopia: The impure critical performativity of alternative organizing
It sometimes appears that alternative organizations are doomed to perpetuate the systems they aim to transform, as efforts to avoid co-optation entail retreat from the very engagement social change requires. Scholars then face a dilemma: do we reveal these degenerative processes in existing alternative organizations and reinforce disillusionment, or avoid such critique and endorse ineffectual strategies? To address this question I draw on Erik Olin Wright’s identification of two broad strategies of social transformation adopted by alternative organizations. Symbiotic strategies are those that aim to change the existing system via incremental reform, such as trade unions’ collective bargaining. Interstitial strategies, by contrast, are those more radical approaches that seek to prefigure emancipatory alternative systems, such as mutual aid networks. The first contribution this paper proposes is a mapping of these social transformation strategies to distinct forms of degeneration, understood as inadvertent reproduction of the hegemonic system. Organizations adopting the symbiotic strategy are particularly vulnerable to the more well-studied forms of degeneration that result from partial alignment with the hegemonic system—what I call exposure degeneration. Organizations adopting the interstitial strategy are instead vulnerable to less well-studied forms of degeneration resulting from insufficient engagement with the hegemonic system—what I call insulation degeneration. Although this model may appear to place alternative organizations in a catch-22, I draw a more hopeful perspective from theories of performativity that highlight the relationship between socially transformative agency and social reproduction. Unpacking the necessary impurity of performativity leads to the paper’s second contribution: while both practitioners and scholars of alternative organizations can pursue social transformation only via impure critical performativity, awareness of this constraint can foster reflexivity regarding the agential scope that remains.
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Organization
Organization MANAGEMENT-
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期刊介绍: The journal encompasses the full range of key theoretical, methodological and substantive debates and developments in organizational analysis, broadly conceived, identifying and assessing their impacts on organizational practices worldwide. Alongside more micro-processual analyses, it particularly encourages attention to the links between intellectual developments, changes in organizational forms and practices, and broader social, cultural and institutional transformations.
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