It’s a Bittersweet Symphony, this Life: Fragile Academic Selves and Insecure Identities at Work
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This article demonstrates the importance of studying insecurity in relation to identities at work. Drawing upon empirical research with business school academics in the context of the proliferation of managerialist controls of audit, accountability, monitoring and performativity, we illustrate how insecurities in the form of fragile and insecure academic selves are variously manifested. Emerging from our data were three forms of insecurity—imposters, aspirants and those preoccupied with existential concerns, and we analyse these in the context of psychoanalytic, sociological and philosophical frameworks. In so doing, we make a three-fold contribution to the organization studies literature: first, we develop an understanding of identities whereby they are treated as a topic and not merely a resource for studying something else; second, we demonstrate how insecurity and identity are more nuanced and less monolithic concepts than has sometimes been deployed in the literature; and third, we theorize the concepts of identity and insecurity as conditions and consequences of one another rather than monocausally related. Through this analysis of insecure identities, insightful understandings into the contemporary bittersweet experiences of working in academia, and specifically in business schools are developed that could prove fruitful for future research within and beyond this occupational group.
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David Knights is Professor of Organizational Analysis at Swansea University School of Management, Lancaster University and the Open University. He also holds a visiting post at Stockholm University Business School. He was previously a Professor at Manchester University where, in 1994, he co-founded the international refereed journal: Gender, Work and Organization on which he continues as co-editor in chief. His recent books are Introducing Organizational Behaviour and Management 2005, 2nd edition, 2012, Cengage Learning and Organization Analysis: Critical Contemporary Contributions, 2011, Cengage Learning (both edited with Hugh Willmott), and Handbook of Gender, Work and Organization, 2011, Blackwell/Wiley (edited with Emma Jeanes and Pat Yancey Martin).
Caroline Clarke is a Senior Lecturer in Management for the Open University Business School, Walton Hall, Milton Keynes, MK7 6AA. Her research interests are centered around identity, emotions and autoethnography. Caroline’s most recent journal publication is Clarke, C., Knights, D. and Jarvis, C. (2012) ‘A Labour of Love? Academics in UK Business Schools’, Scandinavian Journal of Management, S.I on Identity.
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