Keshtiban, Amir ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1647-3094 (2022) Prefigurative Spaces: Building Community and Collective Record of Resistance to Create Change in Spaces of Organizing. In: Collins, Joshua C. and Callahan, Jamie L, (eds.) The Palgrave Handbook of Critical Human Resource Development. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham, pp. 91-108

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Abstract

There are emerging calls for the field of Human Resource Development (HRD) to move away from its existing mainstream approaches on performativity toward more inclusive and participative approaches. The main criticism of mainstream approaches of HRD is their tendency to rely on tick boxing
activities as associated with Training & Development, Career Development, and Organization Development that stealthily strip away employee rights. Moving toward more inclusive approaches of Critical Human Resource Development (CHRD) that challenge the historically dominant normative structures, practices, policies, and definitions will enable practitioners and scholars to examine new possibilities and potentialities. Focusing on current debates regarding the CHRD, in this chapter, I will discuss spaces of organizing for inclusive change, considering the Occupy London (OL) movement as a case study. I will analyze the nature of the prefigurative space of the OL movement by looking at the repertoires of protest, decentralized structure, and leaderlessness that characterized the movement. I will argue the importance of such spaces with regard to HRD, which provide a safe and nurturing space to the members of an organization to identify new opportunities, recruit new participants, develop new identities, and form and discuss multiple perspectives.

Item Type:	Book Section
Status:	Published
DOI:	10.1007/978-3-031-10453-4_6
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General)
School/Department:	London Campus
URI:	https://ray.yorksj.ac.uk/id/eprint/7148

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