@article {6616,
	title = {Art as "The Great Refusal": Lessons for organization studies and management},
	journal = {Tamara: Journal for Critical Organization Inquiry},
	volume = {6},
	year = {2007},
	month = {2007},
	pages = {12-35},
	abstract = {This article revisits and seeks to add to some of the author{\textquoteright}s earlier work to highlight, once again, the manner in which art is able to return our gaze and induce critical reflection. In line with Herbert Marcuse{\textquoteright}s notion of "The Great Refusal", it is suggested that art has the potential to help us {\textquoteright}see{\textquoteright} anew that which is familiar, the everyday, the banal. Drawing upon the work of the surrealist art movement, the paper highlights the manner in which an "estrangement-effect" is created that gives us sufficient distance to reflexively consider the taken-for-granted. The techniques used by the surrealists are shown to have their parallels in the work of some who occupy a {\textquoteright}space{\textquoteright} in the field of organisation studies. The author argues the case that the field of organisation studies needs to recognize and protect this space of refusal.},
	issn = {1532-5555}
}
