Appropriating the abject: an anthropophagic approach to organizational diversity

Gazi Islam
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Gazi Islam: MC - Management et Comportement - EESC-GEM Grenoble Ecole de Management

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Abstract: This paper discusses the concept of organizational anthropophagy, a metaphor describing a unique relationship between identity and otherness. To show how this perspective contributes to understandings of diversity and difference, I read anthropophagy against psychoanalytic discussions of abjection, a process where individuals are simultaneously fascinated by, drawn towards, and horrified by their relationships to outside "others". Stemming from the global periphery, anthropophagy provides a way to combine psychoanalytic with sociological views of otherness. I stress the implications of the anthropophagic approach for organizational theorizing of the "monstrous", placing monstrousness against the political economic context of post-coloniality and discussing its relations with diversity and difference.

Keywords: Identity; Diversity; Abjection; Organizational Anthropology; Anthropophagic Movement (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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Published in Equality, Diversity and Inclusion: An International Journal, 2014, 33 (7), pp.595 - 613. ⟨10.1108/EDI-03-2012-0023⟩

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DOI: 10.1108/EDI-03-2012-0023

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