@article {6535,
	title = {Doing business in a South African Township: Considering a role for ressentiment as situated narrative and theory of power},
	journal = {Tamara: Journal for Critical Organization Inquiry},
	volume = {7},
	year = {2008},
	month = {2008},
	pages = {126-138},
	abstract = {This paper argues for an interpretive approach to theorizing as more than merely the assertion of truth-claims but in addition, as a social process that narrates the ordering and simplification of reality effects. Mary Douglas{\textquoteright} (1975) notion of the pangolin as a reflexive mediating concept able to {\textquotedblleft}speak{\textquotedblright} to both macro and micro social theories is recommended. Ressentiment as just such a pangolin-like concept is proposed and its usefulness is explored in an organizational case study, made up of three vignettes, of doing business in a South African township. The role for ressentiment in an interpretive theory of power is considered. },
	issn = {1532-5555}
}
