Affective disruption: Walter Benjamin and the 'history' of Ireland's industrial schools


Autoria(s): Kenny, K.
Data(s)

2013

Resumo

What role do organizations play in writing history? In this paper, I address the part played by organizations in the enactment of large-scale violence, and focus on the ways in which the resulting histories come to be written. Drawing on the case of Ireland's industrial schools, I demonstrate how such accounts can act to serve the interests of those in power, effectively silencing and marginalizing weaker people. A theoretical lens that draws on ideas from Walter Benjamin and Judith Butler is helpful in understanding this; the concept of 'affective disruption' enables an exploration of how people's experiences of organizational violence can be reclaimed from the past, and protected in a continuous remembrance. Overall, this paper contributes a new perspective on the writing of organizational histories, particularly in relation to the enactment of violence. 

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application/pdf

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http://pure.qub.ac.uk/portal/en/publications/affective-disruption-walter-benjamin-and-the-history-of-irelands-industrial-schools(3a8d50d9-ca86-4710-8b38-49bf4a636dca).html

http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17449359.2013.749676

http://pure.qub.ac.uk/ws/files/15876082/1208_Kenny_Benjamin_post_print.pdf

Idioma(s)

eng

Direitos

info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess

Fonte

Kenny , K 2013 , ' Affective disruption: Walter Benjamin and the 'history' of Ireland's industrial schools ' Management and Organizational History , vol 8 , no. 1 , pp. 10-22 . DOI: 10.1080/17449359.2013.749676

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article