FROM FEELING TO NAMING:

A CONCRETE APPROACH TO MANAGERIAL NEWSPEAK THROUGH BULLYING AT WORK

OD OSEĆANJA DO IMENOVANJA: PRAKTIČAN PRISTUP MENADŽERSKOM NOVOGOVORU O MALTRETIRANJU NA RADNOM MESTU

Predavanje i diskusija – dr Anjes Vandeveld-Rugal

By accessing language, the individual is granted the means to represent experiences and to share meaning. But ill being related to workplace bullying (such as violent or undermining demeanours from one or more colleagues) makes it hard for the subject to put his/her experience into words. Agnès Vandevelde-Rougale explored this uneasiness. Her fieldwork, which started in France and continued in Ireland (2010-2014), led her to question the influence of modern management discourse on the individual and its relation to language. By conducting in-depth interviews with individuals confronted to bullying at work and crossing these narratives with information from organizational websites, she suggested that modern managerial discourse (which has expanded since the 1970s to serve managing human resources in organizations) hinders the expression of emotions and thereby the understanding of subjective experiences. She argues that this process roots on an internalization of the managerial discourse, turning it into managerial newspeak, which weakens the subject as it diminishes its enunciative autonomy and limits its ability to make sense of his/her emotional experiences.

In this Agora session, Agnès Vandevelde-Rougale will draw on her findings and consider the issue of labelling an experienced or observed phenomenon. The lecture and the discussion will be in English.

Dr. Anjes Vandeveld-Rugal je antropolog i klinički sociolog, naučni saradnik na Univerzitetu Paris Diderot. Sprovela je istraživanja u Francuskoj i u Irskoj. Njena naučna interesovanja su jezik i govor, emocije, menadžerski diskurs i novogovor, maltretiranje na radnom mestu.

http://univ-paris-diderot.academia.edu/AgnèsVandeveldeRougale