Introduction: Desiring Politics and the Politics of Desire

Seitz, David; Farhadi, Beyhan

doi:10.1016/j.emospa.2019.04.001

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“…Cruel optimism offers a highly original synthesis of post-Marxist critiques of ideology, psychoanalysis, affect theory, and aesthetic theory, among other sources. Yet at times, geographers' work with cruel optimism risks flattening Berlant's concept to a more explicitly emotional form of Marxist false consciousness, or applying it without much critical reformulation; psychoanalytic geographer Steve Pile's (2009) warning about the flattening of psychoanalytic categories in geographers' use of affect theory proves all too prescient here (see Seitz and Farhadi, 2019). It is thus imperative to note that among cruel optimism's varied genealogies, Berlant's image of a fragmented subject riven by a "split" process of reparation clearly recalls Klein, for whom splitting the ego and its objects of attachment is "one of the fundamental defenses against [the] persecutory anxiety" of the paranoid-schizoid position and also closely associated with manic reparation (Klein, 1975b: 143).…”

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“…Meanwhile, a wide range of thinkers from outside geography who have had a significant or growing influence on the field—including Judith Butler, Gilles Deleuze, Félix Guattari, Frantz Fanon, Edward W. Said, Hortense Spillers, Frank B. Wilderson III, Sylvia Wynter, and, as I will highlight below, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick and Lauren Berlant—offer careful, critical readings of psychoanalytic discourse and practice. Yet given how these thinkers are often taken up in geography (outside of psychoanalytic geographies), one might be forgiven for not realizing that they are in dialogue with psychoanalysis at all (Pile, 2009; Seitz and Farhadi, 2019).…”

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A wizard of disquietude in our midst: Melanie Klein and the critical geographies of manic reparation

Seitz

2023

Environ Plan D

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This article invites critical geographers to reconsider the conceptual offerings of Austrian-British object-relations psychoanalyst Melanie Klein (1882–1960), whose metapsychology has had a significant but largely unacknowledged contemporary influence on the field via theorists like Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick and Lauren Berlant. Excavating the Kleinian genealogies of Sedgwick’s concept of “reparative reading” and Berlant’s notion of “cruel optimism,” I argue that geographers engaged with these ideas would benefit from a more sustained consideration of Klein’s influence on them. I then point to the potential utility for critical geographers of just one of many Kleinian concepts that has largely remained off the map of recent debates: ”manic reparation,” sometimes referred to as mock reparation or manic denial, which defends against the anxiety of wanting to repair a damaged object of attachment. Sketching possibilities for how this concept could productively illuminate concerns near and dear to critical geographers—such as the political ecologies of climate change, critiques of neoliberal multiculturalisms, debates over urban development, and abolition geographies—I argue that Klein’s idiosyncratic, though at times problematic and counterintuitive, body of work offers critical geographers an insightful, expansive, and underutilized conceptual vocabulary for examining the affective dimensions of a wide range of political formations.

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Section: Cruel Optimism's Psychical Splitsmentioning

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A wizard of disquietude in our midst: Melanie Klein and the critical geographies of manic reparation

Seitz

2023

Environ Plan D

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“…We seek to inhabit this undecidable impasse while engaging with the difference and politics that already exists within affirmative and reparative projects, as well as with the productive tensions within varying approaches to affect (cf. Hitchen, 2019; Lim, 2007; Seitz and Farhadi, 2019). 2 Hemmings (2005) argues that the language of affect theory has too often ignored some of the complexities and rich histories of feminist, queer, and postcolonial thought in order to make a case for itself.…”

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Feeling otherwise: Ambivalent affects and the politics of critique in geography

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Cockayne

2021

Dialogues in Human Geography

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Scholars across the social sciences and humanities have increasingly questioned the meaning and purpose of critique. Contributing to those conversations, some geographers have advocated for affirmative or reparative practices such as reading for difference or experimentation that seek to provoke more joyful, hopeful, or enchanting affects, as alternatives to what they perceive as a prevailing forms of ‘negative’ critique. In response, others have re-emphasized the centrality of negativity and revalued negative affects in the context of regimes of racialization, heteronormativity, and coloniality. Rather than taking sides in a debate thus framed, this article develops an ambivalent position that foregrounds multiple senses of difference that exist within affirmative and reparative projects. Drawing on feminist and queer geographic work, the explicitly political and difference-oriented writing of Sedgwick and Deleuze, and queer and postcolonial affect scholars, we argue for critique characterized by an ambivalent and pluralistic attitude toward feeling. Joining those arguing for a pluralization of the moods and modes of critical work, our readings suggest the necessity of a pluralism that refuses any escape from the ‘negativity’ of the social field in favor of an affectively ambivalent engagement with the inherent politics of critique in a plural and uneven world.

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“…In this regard, a number of studies (e.g. Daly, 2018 ; Liu and Jansen, 2017 ; Seitz and Farhadi, 2019 ; Son, 2011 ; van Zoonen and Treem, 2019 ) have acknowledged that the relation between desire, expectation, achievement and empathy is as old as is human history itself ( Bohns and Flynn, 2021 ; Farooq and Salam, 2020 ; Graus et al., 2021 ; Klein and Shoshana, 2020 ; Mitchell et al., 2020 ; Yurtsever et al., 2021 ). However, DSIW is relatively new phenomenon and it has a close assimilation with Digman’s (1990) five factor model ( Farooq and Salam, 2020 ; Vergauwe et al., 2017 ).…”

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Cleaner production practices at company level enhance the desire of employees to have a significant positive impact on society through work

Farooq

Salam

2021

Journal of Cleaner Production

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Implementation of cleaner production practices (CPP), service quality (SQ) and corporate social responsibility (CSR) is often studied at organizational level. A number of studies on trio have reported it’s significant impact on overall organizational performance and profitability across the globe. However, not much is studied about the individual level micro influence of these constructs on employee engagement (EE), organizational pride (OP), organizational identification (OI) and “desire to have a significant impact through work” (DSIW). Therefore, this study presents a comprehensive framework for assessing the impact of the implementation of CPP, SQ and CSR on EE, OP, OI and DSIW. Data collected from 320 non-managerial staff members employed at a garments manufacturing company in Pakistan was analyzed using partial least square (PLS) approach. Findings revealed that the implementation of CPP, SQ and CSR plays an important role in shaping EE, OP, OI and DSIW in the garments manufacturing industry. Further, it is found that the implementation of CPP has a non-significant impact on SQ. Additionally, results of the importance-performance map analysis (IPMA) have also confirmed that the implementation of CPP at company level has shown a highest importance and performance amongst all the latent constructs proposed as predictors of DSIW in the garments manufacturing industry. These findings are a step forward and unique contribution of this study in the domain of CPP, SQ, CSR, EE, OP, OI and DSIW.

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Introduction: Desiring Politics and the Politics of Desire

Cited by 4 publications

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A wizard of disquietude in our midst: Melanie Klein and the critical geographies of manic reparation

A wizard of disquietude in our midst: Melanie Klein and the critical geographies of manic reparation

Feeling otherwise: Ambivalent affects and the politics of critique in geography

Cleaner production practices at company level enhance the desire of employees to have a significant positive impact on society through work

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