The ethical speaking of objects: ethics and the ‘object-ive’ world of Khmer Rouge young comrades
The ethical speaking of objects: ethics and the ‘object-ive’ world of Khmer Rouge young comrades
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物的伦理言说：红色高棉青年同志的伦理与“客观”世界
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2014
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A. Rego
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Miguel Pina e Cunha;S. Clegg;A. Rego
关于组织伦理的讨论通常基于关键但大多抽象的范畴。这些类别的作用是没有争议的，但在符合社会物质的组织观点，我们认为，对象也参与伦理过程，他们履行了一些重要的角色，在社会建设的道德。我们研究这种可能性，通过极端的情况下，年轻的红色高棉战斗人员参加两个行动单位（精英师703和S-21死亡营），并讨论对象如何发挥关键作用，在连接宏观意识形态和微观个人层面与道德的相关性。我们认为，对象传达的道德意义，他们最初提供了机会，以验证，物质上，红色高棉的意识形态在这个群体中，并证明他们的种族灭绝行动。在后来的阶段，他们证明了不可能逃离恩卡的极权主义目光。我们的结论是，道德在一定程度上是通过对象来说话的。
Discussions of the ethics of organization are often based on crucial but mostly abstract categories. The role of these categories is not contested here but, in line with a sociomaterial view of organizations, we suggest that objects also participate in ethical processes and that they fulfil a number of important roles in the social construction of ethics. We study this possibility via the extreme case of young Khmer Rouge combatants participating in two operational units (elite Division 703 and the S-21 death camp), and discuss how objects played critical roles in connecting macro-ideological and micro-individual dimensions with ethical relevance. We suggest that objects conveyed ethical meaning and that they initially offered opportunities to validate, materially, the Khmer Rouge ideology amongst this group and to justify their genocidal action. At a later stage, they evidenced the impossibility of escape from the totalitarian gaze of the Ângkar. Ethics, we conclude, partly speak through objects.