Trapped in the abject: prison officers’ use of avoidance, compliance and retaliation in response to ambiguous humour
dc.contributor.author | Manolchev, C | |
dc.contributor.author | Einarsdottir, A | |
dc.contributor.author | Lewis, D | |
dc.contributor.author | Hoel, H | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2022-10-17T10:03:10Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2022-10-27 | |
dc.date.updated | 2022-10-15T15:07:25Z | |
dc.description.abstract | The place of humour in organisational interactions has been the subject of long-standing interest. Studies have considered the positive role of humour in increasing social contact and promoting group cohesion, while warning it can be a means for expressing hostility and excluding group members. However, more ambiguous uses of humour remain underexplored and under-theorised. Using a single case study of employee experiences at ‘Hillside’, a high-security prison in the UK, we address this gap. Adopting Julia Kristeva’s ‘theory of the abject’, we conceptualise ‘abject humour’ as a disruptive activity, which is composite, shady and sinister. We show that, despite Hillside’s adoption of Challenge It, Change It as a UK-wide safeguarding policy, the liminal spaces abject humour opens and occupies, are difficult to regulate. Those spaces trap both perpetrators and targets, and necessitate the use of avoidance, compliance, and retaliation strategies by the latter, as ways of coping. | en_GB |
dc.identifier.citation | Published online 27 October 2022 | en_GB |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1080/14759551.2022.2139378 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10871/131289 | |
dc.identifier | ORCID: 0000-0002-9621-5166 (Manolchev, Constantine) | |
dc.language.iso | en | en_GB |
dc.publisher | Routledge | en_GB |
dc.rights | © 2022 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. | en_GB |
dc.subject | Abject | en_GB |
dc.subject | Humour | en_GB |
dc.subject | Hegemonic Masculinity | en_GB |
dc.subject | Prison Work | en_GB |
dc.subject | HR Policy | en_GB |
dc.title | Trapped in the abject: prison officers’ use of avoidance, compliance and retaliation in response to ambiguous humour | en_GB |
dc.type | Article | en_GB |
dc.date.available | 2022-10-17T10:03:10Z | |
dc.identifier.issn | 1477-2760 | |
dc.description | This is the final version. Available on open access from Routledge via the DOI in this record | en_GB |
dc.identifier.journal | Culture and Organization | en_GB |
dc.rights.uri | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ | en_GB |
dcterms.dateAccepted | 2022-10-13 | |
dcterms.dateSubmitted | 2022-03-01 | |
rioxxterms.version | VoR | en_GB |
rioxxterms.licenseref.startdate | 2022-10-13 | |
rioxxterms.type | Journal Article/Review | en_GB |
refterms.dateFCD | 2022-10-17T10:01:07Z | |
refterms.versionFCD | AM | |
refterms.dateFOA | 2022-11-01T14:30:59Z | |
refterms.panel | C | en_GB |
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