Towards a Performative Theory of Resistance: Senior Managers and Revolting Subject(ivitie)s
利用朱迪斯·巴特勒和凯伦·巴拉德的表演性理论，通过案例研究高级管理者在人才管理战略实施中的抵抗行为，提出抵抗和抵抗者是在身份或自我受到威胁时瞬间共同产生的。
This article develops a performative theory of resistance. It uses Judith Butler’s and Karen Barad’s theories of performativity to explore how resistance (to organizational strategies and policies) and resistants (those who resist such strategies and policies) co-emerge, within and through complex intra-actions of entangled discourses, materialities, affect and space/time. The article uses empirical materials from a case study of the implementation of a talent management strategy. We analyse interviews with the senior managers charged with implementing the strategy, the influence of material, non-sentient actors, and the experiences of the researchers when carrying out the interviews. This leads to a theory that resistance and resistants emerge in moment-to-moment co-constitutive moves that may be invoked when identity or self is put in jeopardy. Resistance, we suggest, is the power (residing with resistants) to say ‘no’ to organizational requirements that would otherwise threaten to render the self abject.