Doing compassion or doing discipline? Power relations and the Magdalene Laundries

Simpson, AV; Clegg, SR; Lopes, MP; e Cunha, MP; Rego, A; Pitsis, T

Doing compassion or doing discipline? Power relations and the Magdalene Laundries

Simpson, AV

Clegg, SR

Lopes, MP e Cunha, MP Rego, A Pitsis, T

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Publication Type:: Journal Article
Citation:: Journal of Political Power, 2014, 7 (2), pp. 253 - 274
Issue Date:: 2014-01-01

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dc.contributor.author	Simpson, AV https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7768-328X	en_US
dc.contributor.author	Clegg, SR https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6083-4283	en_US
dc.contributor.author	Lopes, MP	en_US
dc.contributor.author	e Cunha, MP	en_US
dc.contributor.author	Rego, A	en_US
dc.contributor.author	Pitsis, T	en_US
dc.date.available	2020-05-25T19:10:36Z
dc.date.issued	2014-01-01	en_US
dc.identifier.citation	Journal of Political Power, 2014, 7 (2), pp. 253 - 274	en_US
dc.identifier.issn	2158-379X	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/33520
dc.description.abstract	We address the Magdalene Laundries. On the one hand this institution was constituted as a compassionate response to managing troubled young women; on the other hand it was seen as a disciplinary apparatus imposing total institutional life on its inmates. The antinomy of views about the institution is evident in the analysis we make of 116 comments by 66 commenters on an online newspaper article about the Magdalene Laundries. We analyse these comments in the context of broader concerns about contemporary approaches to the topic of organizational compassion. We argue that organizational compassion is a complex social process embedded within power relations that can be disciplinary in nature and create ambivalent rather than wholly positive outcomes. © 2014 Taylor & Francis.	en_US
dc.relation.ispartof	Journal of Political Power	en_US
dc.relation.isbasedon	10.1080/2158379X.2014.927684	en_US
dc.title	Doing compassion or doing discipline? Power relations and the Magdalene Laundries	en_US
dc.type	Journal Article
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utslib.for	1503 Business and Management	en_US
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pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Business
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Business/Management Discipline
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Abstract:

We address the Magdalene Laundries. On the one hand this institution was constituted as a compassionate response to managing troubled young women; on the other hand it was seen as a disciplinary apparatus imposing total institutional life on its inmates. The antinomy of views about the institution is evident in the analysis we make of 116 comments by 66 commenters on an online newspaper article about the Magdalene Laundries. We analyse these comments in the context of broader concerns about contemporary approaches to the topic of organizational compassion. We argue that organizational compassion is a complex social process embedded within power relations that can be disciplinary in nature and create ambivalent rather than wholly positive outcomes. © 2014 Taylor & Francis.

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