Poster by Severin Hornung¹
¹ Universität Innsbruck, Austria
TIME: Thursday, 16 July, 12:00 – 13:15
Location: Break Room
Session: Poster Session
Abstract
This poster introduces a recent book project by the authors, compiling conceptual contributions developed in the context of a research program in critical applied psychology. Specifically, the volume presents an attempt to integrate previously fragmented theorizing on power and ideology, emphasizing interdisciplinary, psychodynamic, and socio-historical perspectives on society, organizations, and individuals. Providing a critical epistemological basis, drawing on meta-theory, competing social science paradigms in organizational research and associated debates are outlined. Extending the critical tradition of labor process theory, a psychodynamic framework of power and control is proposed. Taxonomies of power in organizations are reviewed and developments in labor process analysis of algorithmic management presented. Subsequently, literature on ideologies in work organizations is reviewed and structured. Following chapters of the book dialectically analyze antagonistic tensions between organizational versus individual workplace flexibility, normative foundations of neoliberalism versus humanism, and economy versus ecology. In doing so, socially corrosive logics, discourses, and practices of economistic neoliberal ideology are exposed and contrasted with envisioned ethically responsible and socio-ecologically sustainable alternatives. The latter are grounded in a recommended rediscovery and reinvigoration of the philosophy of radical humanism in current times of polycrisis. The book is openly accessible under the following link: https://doi.org/10.15203/99106-190-8.