Abstract
Based on a four-year longitudinal interview study, this paper explores 16 young women’s relations to the future career and how it shapes their modes of career building. Theoretically, it draws on Lauren Berlant to conceptualize the future career as a promissory object of attachment. The analysis reveals that career building for these young women is marked by ambivalence and contradictory movements of ‘bringing closer’ and ‘keeping distance’ from the future career. We refer to their ambivalent modes as ‘career genre flailing.’ We contribute to work and career studies by illustrating how career building unfolds in flailing and ambivalent movements in-between attachment and detachment from the promissory object of the future career.
| Original language | English |
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| Publication date | 2024 |
| Number of pages | 35 |
| Publication status | Published - 2024 |
| Event | 1st Organization Journal Virtual Conference: Organizing Critical Solidarities Amidst a Divisive World: Reveal, Reconnect, Reimagine, Rehearse and Revolt for Social Justice - Online, WWW Duration: 9 Dec 2024 → 11 Dec 2024 Conference number: 1 https://organizationmgged.wixsite.com/organization-confere |
Conference
| Conference | 1st Organization Journal Virtual Conference |
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| Number | 1 |
| Location | Online |
| Country/Territory | WWW |
| Period | 09/12/2024 → 11/12/2024 |
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