Mrinalini Greedharry
Laurentian University, English, Faculty Member
- Postcolonial Theory, Comparative Literary Criticism, Modern and Postmodern Historiography, Literary Pedagogy, British Imperial and Colonial History (1600 - ), English, and 8 moreCultural Theory, Psychoanalysis, Postcolonial Studies, Post-Colonialism, Critical Management Studies, Gayatri Spivak, Historical Methodology, and History of Historiographyedit
The founders of Organization include Marta Calás and Linda Smircich who are among the most influential feminist theorists in organization studies. We take inspiration from their work to outline ideas for feminist and other critical... more
The founders of Organization include Marta Calás and Linda Smircich who are among the most influential feminist theorists in organization studies. We take inspiration from their work to outline ideas for feminist and other critical scholars studying organizations and organizing. We draw especially on their consistent interest in transnational feminism, engagement with feminist new materialisms, and emphasis on epistemological and ontological questions about (feminist) organization studies. We highlight key theoretical points and show how feminism(s) can remain socially, societally, and globally meaningful. Our aim is to continue to create feminist organization theorizing that, as Calás and Smircich’s scholarship does, remains critical and vigilant about who its knowers are, what kind of knowledge it produces, and what this knowledge is for.
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Review of edited collection on the history of colonial deployments of psychoanalytic theory
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Scholars in both the humanities and management remain attached to the idea that literature will set us free. Whether this is because literary text seems unconstrained by our epistemes or reading literature offers a practice through which... more
Scholars in both the humanities and management remain attached to the idea that literature will set us free. Whether this is because literary text seems unconstrained by our epistemes or reading literature offers a practice through which we will be able to shape ourselves into the people we want to be, many of us understand literature as something that offers us a chance to emancipate ourselves from the regime of knowledge we have now. Nevertheless, as the history of literature as colonial governmentality suggests, literature and literary study have been crucial forms of knowledge-power for creating and maintaining organizational structures as well as producing the willing subjects that make those structures work. This being so, how is it that are we still interested in using literature to make “better” people, whether the people in question are ”better” managers or their subordinates, rather than reorganizing literary study in the contemporary university?
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How can we manage postcolonialism now? The question resonates in various ways depending on your view of the postcolonial project. If you are one of the people still committed, as Robert Young writes, "to reconstruct Western knowledge... more
How can we manage postcolonialism now? The question resonates in various ways depending on your view of the postcolonial project. If you are one of the people still committed, as Robert Young writes, "to reconstruct Western knowledge formations, reorient ethical norms, turn the power structures of the world upside down, refashion the world from below" (20), how do you manage to keep it going? If you are one of those who think that the intellectual fuel of postcolonialism has been spent, there is nothing left to manage – it is time to shut the operation down. Young's trajectory suggests that there remains political work that could, and should, still animate postcolonial studies, including the ongoing lack of connection with struggles around indigeneity across the world and the persistence of "unreadable Islam" (Young 2012, 27-31). Nevertheless, the task of managing postcolonialism conveys the affect of tired and disheartened people still struggling to keep a p...
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Cet ouvrage propose d'explorer les relations entre littérature et tradition en contexte postcolonial, tout en interrogeant les grands principes qui ont guidé jusqu'ici les études postcoloniales, en particulier la prégnance de... more
Cet ouvrage propose d'explorer les relations entre littérature et tradition en contexte postcolonial, tout en interrogeant les grands principes qui ont guidé jusqu'ici les études postcoloniales, en particulier la prégnance de l'activisme politique au cœur du travail de représentation littéraire et le lien sous-jacent entre rupture politique et innovation poétique. Qu'en est-il des auteurs qui choisissent de ne pas revendiquer et des œuvres qui ne relèvent pas de la littérature de combat ? Ce volume envisage dans un premier temps la continuité entre les œuvres coloniales et postcoloniales en montrant la profonde modernité d'auteurs parfois considérés comme impérialistes et en leur rendant leur force subversive (Joseph Conrad, Rudyard Kipling, Somerset Maugham, Toru Dutt, etc.), puis le classicisme comme un choix esthétique qui conduit à inscrire les productions littéraires postcoloniales dans des valeurs et des formes universelles, refusant le communautarisme et le localisme (Alice Munro, Derek Walcott, J.M. Coetzee, Vikram Seth, etc.), enfin le conservatisme comme tournure d'esprit de certains auteurs considérés comme pessimistes ou mélancoliques mais dont les œuvres visent à la connaissance et à la préservation du passé historique ou littéraire (V.S. Naipaul, Nirad Chaudhuri, Patrick White, Michael Noonan, etc.). L'ouvrage se clôt sur une tentative de lire certains textes postcoloniaux (de Salman Rushdie, Mohsin Hamid, Mordecai Richler, etc.) à contre-courant des interprétations qui valorisent la différence, l'hybridation, le multiculturalisme, pour envisager plutôt la littérature comme ce formidable espace de recomposition de temporalités et d'espaces entremêlés
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Psychoanalytic theory has generally been considered politically and epistemologically unsuitable for feminist and anti-racist scholarship, but despite this psychoanalytic language and concepts permeate colonial discourse analysis and... more
Psychoanalytic theory has generally been considered politically and epistemologically unsuitable for feminist and anti-racist scholarship, but despite this psychoanalytic language and concepts permeate colonial discourse analysis and postcolonial theory. Indeed, it could even be argued that there is a tradition of psychoanalytic writing in postcolonial studies from Frantz Fanon's Black Skin White Masks and Ashis Nandy's The Intimate Enemy to Homi Bhabha's The Location of Culture. This dissertation examines the work of each of these theorists in order to better understand why they turn to psychoanalysis as a theoretical tool, how they put psychoanalytic concepts to work in their studies of colonialism, and what kinds of problems they encounter as a result. Though each of these writers expands and deepens our understanding of colonialism and its legacies, their studies do not question psychoanalysis as a colonial discourse itself. Furthermore, it is highly significant that...
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The graphic description of the feminicide of Mexican women in Bolano’s 2666 is juxtaposed with a critique of the formal, academic study of literature. This chapter explores some of the effects of this juxtaposition drawing on Deleuze’s... more
The graphic description of the feminicide of Mexican women in Bolano’s 2666 is juxtaposed with a critique of the formal, academic study of literature. This chapter explores some of the effects of this juxtaposition drawing on Deleuze’s anti-representationalist philosophy of literature. The language and narrative structure in Bolano’s novel both draw attention to the fact that the university is not organized for women, especially subaltern and marginalized women. However, what that organization might actually look like requires a decolonial vision of the university. The chapter concludes with some reflections on how subaltern women, inside and outside Bolano’s text, can be imagined as part of the university.
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This chapter tackles the question of how race can be researched and written about as a formative rather than circumstantial aspect of identity in organizations. The authors go beyond race as a subject of inquiry for scholars who... more
This chapter tackles the question of how race can be researched and written about as a formative rather than circumstantial aspect of identity in organizations. The authors go beyond race as a subject of inquiry for scholars who specialize in problems of managing racialized bodies in subfields such as cross-cultural management, diversity, and inclusion. Their aim is to connect the study of identities in organizations to the rich, extant literature in other fields that theorizes race and identity. The authors renew calls for understanding race as an organizing principle and conclude with the proposition that thinking about racial identity as a productive, generative identity rather than a limit and a problem of particular bodies may give a new direction to organizational studies of race and identity.
Introduction: Of Two Minds: The Uneasy Relationship between Postcolonial Theory and Psychoanalysis The Fanonian Psychoanalytic 'None of them is true but all of them are realities': Ashis Nandy's Psychoanalytic Reading of... more
Introduction: Of Two Minds: The Uneasy Relationship between Postcolonial Theory and Psychoanalysis The Fanonian Psychoanalytic 'None of them is true but all of them are realities': Ashis Nandy's Psychoanalytic Reading of Colonialism Homi Bhabha and the Psychoanalytic Truth Anti-dote - Deleuze and Guattari's Critique of Psychoanalysis Reshaping Postcolonial Relations with Psychoanalysis Index
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This is a draft copy of a review of Derek Hook's book A Critical Psychology of the Postcolonial. Journal of Psychoanalytic Psychology, Vol 33(2), Apr 2016, 355-358.
http://psycnet.apa.org/doi/10.1037/a0038312
http://psycnet.apa.org/doi/10.1037/a0038312
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How do we manage postcolonialism? What do we have to do now, with whom, in what institutional, practical and ethical forms to ensure that the postcolonial project can continue? This chapter is forthcoming in What Postcolonial Theory... more
How do we manage postcolonialism? What do we have to do now, with whom, in what institutional, practical and ethical forms to ensure that the postcolonial project can continue?
This chapter is forthcoming in What Postcolonial Theory Doesn’t Say. Eds. Anna Bernard, Ziad Elmarsafy and Stuart Murray. London: Routledge, 2015. Please use the published text for citations.
This chapter is forthcoming in What Postcolonial Theory Doesn’t Say. Eds. Anna Bernard, Ziad Elmarsafy and Stuart Murray. London: Routledge, 2015. Please use the published text for citations.
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How do reflexive practices work to transform the subject at work? We invite paper proposals for the sub theme 'Organizing Subjects' of EGOS 2015 on the following topics: • Difference and the possibility of (new) organizational subjects •... more
How do reflexive practices work to transform the subject at work?
We invite paper proposals for the sub theme 'Organizing Subjects' of EGOS 2015 on the following topics:
• Difference and the possibility of (new) organizational subjects
• Disreputable knowledges and organizing subjects
• Postcolonial transformations
• Diversity discourses, reflexivity and subject formation
• Workplace spiritualities and reflexivity
• Histories of subjects at and in work
• Reflexivity and organizational transformation
• Ethics and practices of making (up) organizational subjects
We invite paper proposals for the sub theme 'Organizing Subjects' of EGOS 2015 on the following topics:
• Difference and the possibility of (new) organizational subjects
• Disreputable knowledges and organizing subjects
• Postcolonial transformations
• Diversity discourses, reflexivity and subject formation
• Workplace spiritualities and reflexivity
• Histories of subjects at and in work
• Reflexivity and organizational transformation
• Ethics and practices of making (up) organizational subjects
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Scholars in both the humanities and management remain attached to the idea that literature will set us free. Whether this is because literary text seems unconstrained by our epistemes or reading literature offers a practice through which... more
Scholars in both the humanities and management remain attached to the idea that literature will set us free. Whether this is because literary text seems unconstrained by our epistemes or reading literature offers a practice through which we will be able to shape ourselves into the people we want to be, many of us understand literature as something that offers us a chance to emancipate ourselves from the regime of knowledge we have now. Nevertheless, as the history of literature as colonial governmentality suggests, literature and literary study have been crucial forms of knowledge-power for creating and maintaining organizational structures as well as producing the willing subjects that make those structures work. This being so, how is it that are we still interested in using literature to make “better” people, whether the people in question are ”better” managers or their subordinates, rather than reorganizing literary study in the contemporary university?
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One promise of diaspora is surely that it could allow the subaltern woman to negotiate her transfer into the elite—whether through taking a legible place in a new nation’s story; access to institutions of communication and education; or... more
One promise of diaspora is surely that it could allow the subaltern woman to negotiate her transfer into the elite—whether through taking a legible place in a new nation’s story; access to institutions of communication and education; or the secured and settled reproduction of her own family. In the proposed chapter, using a combination of postcolonial historical, auto-ethnographic, and autobiographical methods, I trace the ways in which such a promise unfolds unevenly across three generations of women in one family from the South Asian diaspora.
The diasporic woman is a figure whose life has the potential to disrupt subaltern-elite relations, and yet we have very few accounts of how diasporic life itself might provide the conditions for subaltern pedagogies. How does the diasporic woman make sense of the shifts and recursions of her subalternity across national borders; and how does she teach her daughters and granddaughters how dissent is possible? Beverley suggests that there is an inevitable tension between the existence of subaltern knowledge and the structures and institutions of Western knowledge production (1999). But might there be a way that subaltern knowledges and practices can and do persist within the affective communities (Gandhi 2006) of diasporic families?
The diasporic woman is a figure whose life has the potential to disrupt subaltern-elite relations, and yet we have very few accounts of how diasporic life itself might provide the conditions for subaltern pedagogies. How does the diasporic woman make sense of the shifts and recursions of her subalternity across national borders; and how does she teach her daughters and granddaughters how dissent is possible? Beverley suggests that there is an inevitable tension between the existence of subaltern knowledge and the structures and institutions of Western knowledge production (1999). But might there be a way that subaltern knowledges and practices can and do persist within the affective communities (Gandhi 2006) of diasporic families?
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The graphic description of the feminicide of Mexican women in Bolaño's 2666 is juxtaposed with a critique of the formal, academic study of literature. This chapter explores some of the effects of this juxtaposition drawing on Deleuze's... more
The graphic description of the feminicide of Mexican women in Bolaño's 2666 is juxtaposed with a critique of the formal, academic study of literature. This chapter explores some of the effects of this juxtaposition drawing on Deleuze's anti-representationalist philosophy of literature. The language and narrative structure in Bolaño's novel both draw attention to the fact that the university is not organized for women, especially subaltern and marginalized women. However, what that organization might actually look like requires a decolonial vision of the university. The chapter concludes with some reflections on how subaltern women, inside and outside Bolaño's text, can be imagined as part of the university.
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Recent laments and discussions about the future of postcolonialism in the humanities specifically may be just another way of perpetuating the colonial illusions of Western epistemology. We worry about interdisciplinarity and... more
Recent laments and discussions about the future of postcolonialism in the humanities specifically may be just another way of perpetuating the colonial illusions of Western epistemology. We worry about interdisciplinarity and transdisciplinarity at a moment when the postcolonial project might have its greatest impact because of its spread across disciplinary lines. However, like many other tasks in postcolonial scholarship, it is a case of using disciplinarity against the grain—which is always going to be a fraught task for the disciplinarian in practice. Trained in one discipline, and naturally concerned about its future (and the future of one’s career within the discipline), how do we put aside such concerns in order to work the postcolonial edge?
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As recent events and political developments around the world have shown, race in its various incarnations is still one of the key organizing principles for action. Why then do we persistently fail to think about race in organizations and... more
As recent events and political developments around the world have shown, race in its various incarnations is still one of the key organizing principles for action. Why then do we persistently fail to think about race in organizations and the study of them? And, perhaps most urgently, what does this mean for those whose life and work always already evidences the expectedness of racial power?
We invite theoretical and empirical papers addressing, but not limited to, such themes as:
-Conceptualizing race and coloniality in work and organization studies
-De-naturalizing and de-ontologizing race and gender as categories of difference
-Entangled architectures of race and gender
-Operations of coloniality in the global south
-Race and coloniality in the global distribution of work
-The role of coloniality in the emergence of new forms of work
-Lived experiences of racial difference in organizations
-Material, psychic and epistemic violence of racial difference
-Conceptual and ethical limits of representation and ‘body-counts’
-Critical race theory and postcolonial critique in work and organization studies
We invite theoretical and empirical papers addressing, but not limited to, such themes as:
-Conceptualizing race and coloniality in work and organization studies
-De-naturalizing and de-ontologizing race and gender as categories of difference
-Entangled architectures of race and gender
-Operations of coloniality in the global south
-Race and coloniality in the global distribution of work
-The role of coloniality in the emergence of new forms of work
-Lived experiences of racial difference in organizations
-Material, psychic and epistemic violence of racial difference
-Conceptual and ethical limits of representation and ‘body-counts’
-Critical race theory and postcolonial critique in work and organization studies
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CFP for Gender, Work, and Organization
10th Biennial International Interdisciplinary Conference
Sydney, Australia
13-16 June 2018
10th Biennial International Interdisciplinary Conference
Sydney, Australia
13-16 June 2018
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Reflexivity has become ‘a major methodological preoccupation’ for scholars in the field of organization studies in recent years . In this subtheme we will explore connections between reflexivity, ethics and work that considers subjects to... more
Reflexivity has become ‘a major methodological preoccupation’ for scholars in the field of organization studies in recent years . In this subtheme we will explore connections between reflexivity, ethics and work that considers subjects to be constituted by the knowledges that are available to them in their time and place.