Speaking Up in a Brave New World: Recontextualizing HRD in Postemotional Society

Jamie L. Callahan ()
Additional contact information
Jamie L. Callahan: Durham University Business School

Chapter Chapter 2 in The Palgrave Handbook of Critical Human Resource Development, 2023, pp 17-28 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract The novel Brave New World by Aldous Huxley (Brave New World & Brave New World Revisited. Harper & Row Publishers, Inc., 1932/1965) is a cautionary tale of the implications of totalitarianism, technology, capitalism, and mass media that appear today in the form of neoliberal managerialism. Mirroring Huxley’s predictions, one of the hallmarks of contemporary society is a world awash in manufactured emotion and devoid of authentic emotion; Stjepan Meštrović (Postemotional society. Sage, 1997) calls this postemotionalism. Inspired by Huxley’s prescient dystopian fiction, this chapter recontextualizes CHRD within a postemotional society. It juxtaposes institutional phenomenon with the other-directedness, mechanization of emotion, and voyeuristic inaction of postemotionalism and proposes mechanisms of resistance associated with CHRD practice areas of relating, organizing, learning, changing, and advocating.

Keywords: Postemotionalism; Critical HRD; Dystopian fiction; Voyeuristic inaction; Microaggressions (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

There are no downloads for this item, see the EconPapers FAQ for hints about obtaining it.

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:spr:sprchp:978-3-031-10453-4_2

Ordering information: This item can be ordered from
http://www.springer.com/9783031104534

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-10453-4_2

Access Statistics for this chapter

More chapters in Springer Books from Springer
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Sonal Shukla () and Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing ().