Between narration and interaction: Situating first-line supervisor identity work

Down, Simon; Reveley, James

doi:10.1177/0018726708101043

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“…Fleming, 2005) but more in line with previous arguments about the candid defence and assertion of established self-identities (e.g. Merläinen et al, 2004;Down and Reveley, 2009), these respondents did not end up complying with the planners' intentions while privately disagreeing with them or rejecting them. Rather, they refused to stay away and were determined to use the place however and whenever they wanted to, even if it had become more striated and less habitable than before.…”

Section: Cynical Defencesupporting

confidence: 81%

“…More specifically, previous research has studied how employees protect, enact, assert and reinforce their self-identity -by refusing, dis-identifying with and rearticulating dominant organizational discourse and ascribed identities through counterdiscourse (e.g. Holmer-Nadesan, 1996;Alvesson and Willmott, 2002;Meriläinen et al, 2004;Down and Reveley, 2009), combining various organizational discourses (e.g. Whittington, 1989) and discursively positioning themselves as similar or different to others (e.g.…”

Section: Workplace Micro-resistance and Identity-workmentioning

confidence: 99%

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All talk and no movement? Homeless coping and resistance to urban planning

Thanem

2011

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Privileging the discursive expression of micro-resistance while exploiting spatial metaphors such as cynical distancing and escape, recent work in Critical Management Studies (CMS) has tended to find resistance everywhere without actually examining its spatial whereabouts. Utilizing a spatial approach, this paper therefore investigates how homeless people in Stockholm not only resisted but also coped otherwise with two urban planning projects that intended to drive them away from two public places. Whereas some of the homeless subverted the planners' intentions by returning, others confirmed their intentions by leaving. The paper further discusses the nomadic nature of these movements and how they were related to homeless discourses of apathy, cynicism and contentment. Finally, it discusses what implications this may have for homeless people and urban planning organizations, and for the understanding of resistance in CMS.

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Section: Cynical Defencesupporting

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Section: Workplace Micro-resistance and Identity-workmentioning

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All talk and no movement? Homeless coping and resistance to urban planning

Thanem

2011

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“…Extant investigations of identity work utilize various qualitative methods, from ethnographies to interviews to analysis of written self-reflections and autobiographies (see Down & Reveley, 2009;Sveningsson & Alvesson, 2003;Snow & Anderson, 1987). For example, Snow and Anderson (1987) interviews that reveal how homeless people conduct identity work to construct identities that provide some sense self-worth and dignity.…”

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“…King & Raspin (2004) asked divorced women to write narrative descriptions of their best possible future selves before (retrospectively) and then after their divorce. Down & Reveley (2009) conducted a year-long case study of one first-line supervisor's identity work that included participant observation and interviews as well as a self-reflective essay written by the single research subject.…”

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Identity in Transition: Women’s Narrative Identity Work on the Path to Professional and Mother

Bataille

2014

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Although numerous scholars claim that identity is an integral aspect of engaging in work and family, the extant literature falls short of explaining how women's identities evolve over time through the significant transitions involved in pursuing professional careers and raising families. In fact, much of the literature is grounded in the assumption that work and family represent competing identities for women. Missing from this body of literature is a conceptualization of pursuing a professional/managerial career and having a family as a complex set of transitions that provoke the questions, "Who am I?" and "Who/what do I want to be?" Through a narrative study of 35 professional/managerial women, I uncover novel forms of narrative identity work that illuminate how women construct, revise and present their identities as they transition from university students to young professionals, from non-mothers to mothers, and from childless employees to those with childcare responsibilities. Further, I posit that these forms of narrative identity work reflect three higher-order identity processes: identity exploration, identity adaptation, and identity expression. Through a within and between-case examination of the configurations of identity processes across the three transitions, I uncover four dominant patterns that provide novel insights into how women's identities evolve over time on the path to professional and mother.ii

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“…Las interacciones con los demás ofrecen a los actores la posibilidad de confirmar sus narrativas identitarias, a partir de un proceso de autoverificación en las reacciones con los pares, superiores o subordinados con los cuales se está en relación (Down & Reveley, 2009). …”

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Interpelaciones identitarias en el trabajo: Propuesta para la comprensión de los procesos de construcción de la identidad laboral

Soto¹,

Stecher²,

VALENZUELA³

2017

Estud. psicol. (Campinas)

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ResumenSe propone un modelo para analizar la relación entre la construcción narrativa de la identidad laboral y las dinámicas de interpelación identitaria en el mundo del trabajo. Se diferencian tres planos de interpelación -discursivo, estructural y de interacciones locales -, que pueden divergir o converger entre sí o en relación a la identidad para sí (heredada o anhelada) del sujeto. Hacer foco en las dinámicas de interpelación identitaria en el trabajo permite dar contexto y sentido al ejercicio reflexivo e interpretativo de construcción narrativa de la identidad en el trabajo. El modelo se ilustra a partir de dos estudios de caso de carácter cualitativo en Chile, uno con trabajadores de programas de acción pública del Estado y el otro con trabajadores de tiendas de la industria del retail. El modelo es aplicable teórica y metodológicamente en nuevos terrenos para ampliar la comprensión de las articulaciones entre trabajo y subjetividad en el mundo contemporáneo.Palabras clave: Identidad; Interpelación; Narrativa; Trabajo; Subjetividad. Abstract This study proposes a model for analyzing the relationship between the narrative construction of work identity and the dynamics of identity interpellation in the world of work. Three levels of interpellation are identified -discursive, 26A. SOTO et al.

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Between narration and interaction: Situating first-line supervisor identity work

Cited by 124 publications

References 33 publications

All talk and no movement? Homeless coping and resistance to urban planning

All talk and no movement? Homeless coping and resistance to urban planning

Identity in Transition: Women’s Narrative Identity Work on the Path to Professional and Mother

Interpelaciones identitarias en el trabajo: Propuesta para la comprensión de los procesos de construcción de la identidad laboral

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