Ève Chiapello (born 2 April 1965) is Professor at the
École des hautes études en sciences sociales
The School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences (, EHESS) is a graduate ''grande école'' and '' grand établissement'' in Paris focused on academic research in the social sciences. The school awards Master and PhD degrees alone and conj ...
(EHESS), Paris, where she holds a chair in the 'sociology of the transformation of capitalism'. She has published numerous articles and books, including ''Artists Versus Managers'' (1998) and ''The New Spirit of Capitalism'' (French original 1999, with
Luc Boltanski
Luc Boltanski (born 4 January 1940) is a French sociologist, born in Paris. He is Professor at the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences (Paris), and founder of the Groupe de Sociologie Politique et Morale, known as the leading figure ...
), translated into nine languages including English (2005).
Work
Chiapello has focused her sociological research on analyzing the nature of artistic critique against capitalism and its cooptation over time from the 1950s and 60s to the present.
Another major research focus has been the "language of capitalism", analyzed by employing the methods of
critical discourse analysis to managerial and corporate human resources documents.
These two interests came together in her major work co-authored with
Luc Boltanski
Luc Boltanski (born 4 January 1940) is a French sociologist, born in Paris. He is Professor at the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences (Paris), and founder of the Groupe de Sociologie Politique et Morale, known as the leading figure ...
, ''The New Spirit of Capitalism''.
The main thesis of the book, as summarized in a separate article of the same title, is that from the 1970s capitalists began to adopt a libertarian conception of running the workplace, allowing greater employee initiative and autonomy. This was influenced by the powerful currents of
1960s counterculture movements. However, while it adopted the language of these movements, it maintained the capitalist system of exploitation under its guise. Chiapello and Boltanski conclude that this "new spirit of capitalism" is not emancipatory, but rather more subtle in its continuation of exploitation.
In ''Management Tools: A Social Sciences Perspective'' (2019) Chiapello and her co-authors subject the field of management to sociological analysis.
Selected publications
* Chiapello È., (1998), ''Artistes versus managers: Le Management culturel''. Paris, Métailié.
* Boltanski, L., Chiapello È., et al. (2000), "Forum: Le Nouvel Esprit du capitalisme", ''French Politics, Culture & Society'', 18(3).
* Chiapello, E., & Fairclough, N. (2002), "Understanding the new management ideology: a transdisciplinary contribution from critical discourse analysis and new sociology of capitalism", ''Discourse & Society'', 13(2), 185–208.
* Boltanski, L., Chiapello È., (2005
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Media
Books
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,''The New Spirit of Capitalism'', London-New York, Verso.
* Boltanski, L., Chiapello È., (2005), "The Role of criticism in the dynamics of capitalism", in: ''Worlds of Capitalism: Institutions, Economics, Performance and Governance in the Era of Globalisation'', Max Miller (Ed), London, Routledge.
* Chiapello, È., (2007), "Accounting and the birth of the notion of capitalism", ''Critical Perspectives on Accounting'', 18(3) 263–296.
* Chiapello, È., & Gilbert, P. (2019), ''Management tools: A social sciences perspective''. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press.
References
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French sociologists
Social theorists
Living people
1965 births
French business theorists
Academic staff of HEC Paris