Caste and Organization Studies: Our Silence Makes Us Complicit
| Autor: | Charlene Zietsma, Snehanjali Chrispal, Hari Bapuji |
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| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
| Předmět: |
Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management
Economic growth Inequality Strategy and Management media_common.quotation_subject 05 social sciences Caste 050109 social psychology Silence Business economics Management of Technology and Innovation 0502 economics and business Precarious work 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Sociology Socioeconomic status 050203 business & management media_common Grand Challenges Diversity (politics) |
| Zdroj: | Organization Studies. 42:1501-1515 |
| ISSN: | 1741-3044 0170-8406 |
| DOI: | 10.1177/0170840620964038 |
| Popis: | The caste system has received scant attention in organization studies, despite persisting over thousands of years, influencing the socioeconomic lives of over a billion people around the world and subjecting over 300 million people to severe socioeconomic discrimination. By overlooking caste, scholars risk conforming subaltern empirics to imperialist knowledge and miss the nuance and complexity that caste can bring to organization studies. We argue that the caste system is an institution that affects the workplace, yet it is difficult to dismantle because of its rooting in bodies and the sacred, which strips away agency. As an institution that is deeply embodied, caste has implications for institutional work, precarious work and modern slavery. We conclude with a call for scholarly engagement with caste to study its implications in the pursuit of grand challenges and inclusive organizations. |
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