Resistance Redux

The last 15 years have witnessed renewed interest in resistance in and around organizations. In this essay, we offer a conceptual framework to thematize this burgeoning conceptual and empirical terrain. We critically explore scholarship that examines resistance in terms of its manifestations and pol...

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Published inOrganization studies Vol. 38; no. 9; pp. 1157 - 1183
Main Authors Mumby, Dennis K., Thomas, Robyn, Martí, Ignasi, Seidl, David
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published London, England SAGE Publications 01.09.2017
Sage Publications Ltd
Subjects
Business administration
Economics and Finance
Humanities and Social Sciences
Insubordination
Organization studies
Organization theory
Organizational behavior
Politics
Resistance
misbehaviour
social movements
infrapolitics
resistance
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Summary:The last 15 years have witnessed renewed interest in resistance in and around organizations. In this essay, we offer a conceptual framework to thematize this burgeoning conceptual and empirical terrain. We critically explore scholarship that examines resistance in terms of its manifestations and political intent or impact. We offer four fields of possibility for resistance scholarship: individual infrapolitics, collective infrapolitics, insubordination, and insurrection (the “four I’s” of resistance). We conclude by considering the relationship between resistance theory and praxis, and pose four questions, or provocations, for stimulating future resistance research and practice.
ISSN:0170-8406
1741-3044
DOI:10.1177/0170840617717554