13 research outputs found
“I do not know if Mum knew what was going on:Social reproduction in boarding schools in Soviet Lapland
The Road to Terror: Stalin and the Self-Destruction of the Bolsheviks, 1932-1939. By J. Arch Getty and Oleg V. Naumov Trans. Benjamin Sher. Annals of Communism. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1999. xxvii, 635 pp. Appendixes. Notes. Index. Illustrations. Photographs. $35.00, hard bound.
"Overcoming Peasant Backwardness": The Khrushchev Antireligious Campaign and the Rural Soviet Union
Jewish in Form, Socialist in Content? Jewish Identity and Soviet Subjectivity at the Trial of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee
Nationalsozialismus – Bolschewismus – Universalismus. Moralische Transformationen in der Geschichte als Problem der Ethik
The hysteresis effect as creative adaptation of the habitus: Dissent and transition to the ‘corporate’ in post-Soviet Ukraine
How might Bourdieu’s concept of the hysteresis effect be operationalized in order to understand dissent from, and compliance with, domination in a specific period of social and organizational transition? We employ the Bourdieusian concepts, in particular ‘forms of capital’, ‘hysteresis effect’ and ‘habitus’ to examine the production and reproduction of domination within a British international organization (the ‘Corporation’) operating in transitional post-Soviet Ukraine. Our argument is that the communist-era dissident habitus was better adapted to the changed socio-economic circumstances of postcommunism and was able to creatively adapt to the Corporation through identifying homological processes of domination and adopting homological dissident strategies. The hysteresis effect might therefore provide an explanation of how workers make sense of their new environment based on their habitus, on their capacity to decipher homologies between the previous context and the new one, and on how the dominated that dissent reuse or adapt their strategies in and to this new context. This article makes contributions to the study of domination in organizational contexts at three levels. At the theoretical level, through organizational-based empirical work we build on and develop Bourdieu’s concept of the hysteresis effect by demonstrating the role of the hysteresis effect in the creative reproduction of dissent as a habitus. Our substantive contribution adds a new perspective to the literature on ‘transition’, providing a fine-grained study of how domination was produced within the Western organization in post-Soviet Ukraine