Critical Management Studies Seminar with A/Prof Juliet Rogers
Critical Management Studies Seminar
Lived experience expertise, ontological authority and the promise of ‘Woman’ – psychoanalytic reflections on diversity and equity goals in management
Date: Monday 11 September
Time: 4:15pm - 5:15pm
Venue: William MacMahon Ball Theatre, Old Arts (Room 107) and Online (Zoom)
Current discussions about what constitutes the right kind of lived experience and how to align or disalign have highlighted the question of what constitutes lived experience at all? “Whose got it?” “between whose legs is it located?” “And what does it offer?” These questions have haunted identity politics conversations for decades but in the form that they haunt universities they have become questions to and for “proper” management. This discussion will examine the ways lived experience has now become a site of expertise – as a form of ontological authority – in the university and consider what this means for claims of expertise more broadly. Or, in short, it will look at how the lacanian objet petit a has come to frame the promise of scholarly safety and how the Kleinien paranoid-schizoid condition tosses this objet back and forth. And then we’ll wonder whether the group psychoanalysis of Wilfred Bion might offer a little assistance.
A/prof Juliet Rogers is the Deputy Head of School, Equity and Diversity (School of Social and Political Science), and a criminologist and trauma theorist.