Identity and Capitalism

Moran, Marie

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“…Drawing on a narrow semantic interpretation, Moran () argues that in its present form, identity did not actually ‘exist’ until the 1960s. We accept that prior to this period there was not the same intensity and level of attention given to the preoccupation with identity concerning one's own self‐image, and this actual term, as opposed to what it implied, had not yet entered everyday consciousness.…”

Section: Reinventing the Wheel?mentioning

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Pushing the Boundaries of Amnesia and Myopia: A Critical Review of the Literature on Identity in Management and Organization Studies

Knights

Clarke

2017

Int J Management Reviews

110

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The aim of this article is to review a selection of the literature on identity at work in Management and Organization Studies (MOS) in order to raise critical questions concerning what we see as the dangers of a certain amnesia and myopia. Insofar as some of the contemporary literature neglects to engage with the historical and multidisciplinary past and present, there is a tendency to leave common-sense understandings of identity unexamined, thereby reproducing everyday preoccupations with securing the self. By contrast with such rational individualism, we seek a more embodied understanding of identity, where it is a means of building our ethical engagements and capacities for community living. By failing to problematize identity, there is little recognition of how attempts to secure the self are invariably self-defeating if only because they are necessarily contingent on the other who is unpredictable and uncontrollable. The main contribution of the article is to show how this failure to interrogate identity is far from benign since it often results in reinforcing everyday preoccupations with the self that can turn into narcissism, and deflect and curtail alternative practices of embodied engagement. We trust that our deliberations will be helpful in advancing the 'road less travelled', where studies advance beyond taking identity for granted, and move instead towards more embodied understandings of ethical engagement.

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Section: Reinventing the Wheel?mentioning

confidence: 99%

Pushing the Boundaries of Amnesia and Myopia: A Critical Review of the Literature on Identity in Management and Organization Studies

Knights

Clarke

2017

Int J Management Reviews

110

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“…In western society, the growth in the notion of (personal) identity can be linked to a huge explosion in consumer choice. Possibilities for self-expression in the formation of identity are realised by means of consumption in contemporary capitalist societies (Moran 2014). Thus, from the very beginning, the identity project has only been available to a particular sector of societythe middle and upper classes.…”

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The Identity Politics of Masculinity as a Colonial Legacy

Prianti

2019

Journal of Intercultural Studies

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Prior to Dutch colonization, there was a clear distinction between men and women in Indonesia. However, the hierarchical structure between these gender categories is part and parcel of the colonial legacy. Masculinity was first introduced in Indonesia during the Dutch colonial period as a repudiation from femininity. This signaled a significant shift, as previously being modest and part of the community had been valued much more highly in Indonesian society than was individuality. By asking to what extent men's gender expectations are subject to the identity politics of masculinity, and to what extent this is reflected on Indonesian popular culture specifically men's lifestyle magazine, I intend to shed light on the incompatibility of the identity politics of masculinity with contemporary Indonesian men. Towards this goal, I analyse eight men's lifestyle magazines, for they play a key role in contemporary modern societies, exposing men to generalized notions of what it means to be a 'man'. Spanning the period from the earliest men's lifestyle magazines published in Indonesia in the mid-1970s until 2015, I map contemporary narratives of masculinity in Indonesian context as a reflection of the effects colonial ideologies continue to have on Indonesian society and the division of gender roles.

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“…The mode of production, rather than the reason for or the purpose of consumption, is central to this part of his discussion of commodities. However, the constant creation of seemingly never-ending sources of human gratification have arguably made consumption one of the key driving forces in maintaining capitalism (Bauman, 2005;Ewen, 1976;Harvey, 2011;Moran, 2015). For this reason, contemporary theorists tend to speak of identities, aspirations and meanings when discussing commodities (Gabriel and Lang, 1996;Moran, 2015;Radin, 1996).…”

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The consumption of work: Representations and interpretations of the meaning of work at a UK university

2017

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This article focuses on representations of the nexus of work, meaning and consumption as experienced by university students. We develop an empirically based argument that the meaning of work is being constructed as an object of consumption on a British university campus. We suggest that this indicates two key changes in representations of the meaning of work. First, there is a significant shift in the social construction of orientations to work towards what we term ‘consumption of work’. Second, we argue that this new social construction is made up of three dimensions: (1) consumption of an idealised image of work, (2) consumption through specific work processes and (3) consumption of self-development opportunities at work. We conclude by suggesting ways in which this argument could be researched further.

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Identity and Capitalism

Cited by 51 publications

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Pushing the Boundaries of Amnesia and Myopia: A Critical Review of the Literature on Identity in Management and Organization Studies

Pushing the Boundaries of Amnesia and Myopia: A Critical Review of the Literature on Identity in Management and Organization Studies

The Identity Politics of Masculinity as a Colonial Legacy

The consumption of work: Representations and interpretations of the meaning of work at a UK university

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