Organizations, Neoconservativism and New Chauvinism: Organizational receptivity to right-wing political strategies

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Organization Studies Pub Date : 2024-06-08 DOI:10.1177/01708406241261459

N. Harding, Rana Tassabehji, Hugh Lee

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The first quarter of the 21st century is witnessing an efflorescence of right-wing populism that is flourishing in a period of heightened precarity, global trauma, anxiety and gross inequalities. One branch of right-wing populism, neoconservatism, aims to restore patriarchy; entry into organizations would help it achieve those ends. This paper uses an extreme case study of a profession in which chauvinism flourishes to examine organizations’ receptivity, at ‘shop-floor’ level, to neoconservative political ideologies and the restoration of patriarchy as an entry-route. Using Judith Butler’s work and psychoanalytical theory for theoretical inspiration we develop a theory of ‘chauvinizing’, i.e. the performative constitution of chauvinism. This incorporates a contrast between ‘old’ and ‘new’ chauvinism and the conscious and unconscious allure of misogynistic practices to practitioners. We argue that chauvinizing practices may offer neoconservatism both a means of entry into organizations and opposition to its infiltration. This paper contributes to political organization studies an understanding of how organizations may be permeated by unwelcome political activities, and a warning for organizations of the need for both wariness and strategies of resistance.

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组织、新保守主义和新沙文主义：组织对右翼政治战略的接受程度

21 世纪第一季度，右翼民粹主义盛行，在不稳定性加剧、全球创伤、焦虑和严重不平等的时期，右翼民粹主义蓬勃发展。右翼民粹主义的一个分支--新保守主义--旨在恢复父权制；进入组织将有助于其实现这些目标。本文通过对沙文主义盛行的一个行业的极端案例研究，探讨组织在 "车间 "层面对新保守主义政治意识形态和恢复父权制作为进入途径的接受程度。我们以朱迪斯-巴特勒的著作和精神分析理论为理论依据，提出了 "沙文主义化 "理论，即沙文主义的表演性构成。这包括 "旧 "和 "新 "沙文主义之间的对比，以及厌恶女性的做法对从业者有意识和无意识的诱惑。我们认为，沙文主义实践既可以为新保守主义提供进入组织的途径，也可以反对新保守主义的渗透。本文有助于政治组织研究了解不受欢迎的政治活动是如何渗透到组织中的，并警示组织既要保持警惕，也要采取抵抗策略。

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期刊介绍： Organisation Studies (OS) aims to promote the understanding of organizations, organizing and the organized, and the social relevance of that understanding. It encourages the interplay between theorizing and empirical research, in the belief that they should be mutually informative. It is a multidisciplinary peer-reviewed journal which is open to contributions of high quality, from any perspective relevant to the field and from any country. Organization Studies is, in particular, a supranational journal which gives special attention to national and cultural similarities and differences worldwide. This is reflected by its international editorial board and publisher and its collaboration with EGOS, the European Group for Organizational Studies. OS publishes papers that fully or partly draw on empirical data to make their contribution to organization theory and practice. Thus, OS welcomes work that in any form draws on empirical work to make strong theoretical and empirical contributions. If your paper is not drawing on empirical data in any form, we advise you to submit your work to Organization Theory – another journal under the auspices of the European Group for Organizational Studies (EGOS) – instead.