Control through violence: A situational analysis of embodied practices of violence in a refugee reception centre

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Organization Studies Pub Date : 2023-10-07 DOI:10.1177/01708406231208372

Philipp Arnold, Jana Costas

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Abstract

This paper explores how violence is mobilised for control purposes in organisations. Drawing on ethnographic research conducted at the total institution we name Arrival—a German refugee reception centre—we develop how private security guards engage in practices of signalling and exerting violence vis-a-vis Arrival’s residents to enforce rules. Our research contributes to the extant literature in three ways: First, we elucidate how practices of violence, following a logic of escalation and deterrence, work for organizational control purposes. Second, our research shifts the extant focus from discursive to embodied forms of invisibilization by showing how violence is made simultaneously visible and invisible in its very enactment. Third, it provides insights into situational interactions rather than conditions of violence in total institutions.

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通过暴力控制:难民接待中心具体暴力行为的情境分析

本文探讨了暴力是如何在组织中为控制目的而动员起来的。根据在我们称之为“抵达”(Arrival)的整个机构(德国难民接待中心)进行的人种学研究，我们研究了私人保安如何对“抵达”的居民发出信号并施加暴力，以强制执行规则。我们的研究在三个方面为现有文献做出了贡献:首先，我们阐明了暴力行为是如何遵循升级和威慑的逻辑，为组织控制目的而工作的。其次，我们的研究通过展示暴力在其制定过程中是如何同时可见和不可见的，将现有的焦点从话语转移到具体化的无形形式。第三，它提供了对情境互动的洞察，而不是对整个机构中暴力状况的洞察。

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Organization Studies MANAGEMENT-

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11.50

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16.70%

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