Feudal Patriarchy, Capitalist Configurations, and Workplace Sexual Harassment in Pakistan
基于巴基斯坦城市的多源定性研究，从文化政治经济学视角揭示职场性骚扰不仅源于组织文化或个人特质，更是农村封建父权制与城市新自由主义资本主义逻辑共同作用的结果。
While management research on sexual harassment has offered important insights on its organizational antecedents and outcomes, it has remained empirically focused on explaining how the phenomenon manifests in the Global North. Drawing on findings from a multi-source qualitative study on sexual harassment in urban Pakistan, we move beyond the prevailing view that largely attributes sexual harassment to intraorganizational culture or personal traits. Instead, we adopt a cultural political economy perspective, which foregrounds sexual harassment in the space that mutually enables caste-based rural feudal patriarchy and urban neoliberal capitalist logics. A cultural political economy perspective on sexual harassment in this Global South context allows us to make the following contributions. First, we argue that sexual harassment at the urban workplace in Pakistan should not be seen as separate from its rural counterpart, for it is feudal patriarchy’s culture of hegemonic domination that is responsible for women’s sexual exploitation in white-collar work. Second, the ubiquity of sexual harassment occurs at the very nexus of feudal patriarchy and neoliberal capitalism, as victims become entangled within the interconnected structures of gender, class/caste, age, and status. This results in the (re)production of impotence, speaking to victims’ lack of meaningful agency.