![]() ![]() 2016 || PP.22-26Ībstract: Indian migration is estimated at 20 – 25 million worldwide. International Journal of Humanities and Social Science Invention. ![]() Divakaruni’s novels are about Indians moving from India to America, however, the idea is universal and very much relevant to the Pacific, and to transnational identity and diaspora. With reference to two fictions of Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, this paper will determine that people many times get cruelly optimistic and choose to move to another place. The aim of this paper is to observe the distinction between the world-as-it-is-imagined and the world as it is constructed in our day-to-day lives. ![]() This imagined world is different from the real world as desires and longings do not bring satisfaction to everyone. Many a times, it is imagined that life can be better if one moves to another country, after marriage or when the societal norms are refused. They can lose their identity, their family, their homeland, and many more. In the course of achieving their desires, many people get disappointed. She illustrates that cruel optimism can occur “when something you desire is actually an obstacle to your flourishing… It might rest on something like a new habit that promises to induce in you an improved way of being” (Berlant, 2006: 21). Berlant terms this as Cruel Optimism, which determines the relationship between desires and hindrances. In order to reach their desires, they migrate to places which they think are better, create societal and cultural norms and try and come up with strategies which would guarantee a positive result. People have desires for recognition, achievement and fulfillment of dreams. This includes inexperienced, semi-skilled and able workers moving from India over the past two centennials (Khadria, 2006). I argue, in these high-stakes organizations, trauma is likely to be deployed as a strategy for organizational commitment, further fostering precarity in modern organizations.Indian migration is estimated at 20 – 25 million worldwide. I propose “high-stakes organizations” as contexts particularly vulnerable to violent organizational practices. Abusive organizational practices traumatized girls, leading them to recalibrate their expectations for what was normal and acceptable, ultimately facilitating their abuse. Through an analysis of testimonies submitted by women who were victimized by Nassar as children, I argue that violence was intentionally deployed as an organizing strategy by USA Gymnastics. ![]() The power organizations possess to inflict violence on their members requires an understanding of the increased role of organizations in our decision-making and shaping our values and desires. Scholars have recently argued for an approach to understanding sexual violence as an organizational, rather than individual, phenomenon. In the wake of the Nassar verdict, gymnastics and other youth sports organizations have come under fire for abusive practices that victimize young athletes. In January of 2018, after decades of sexual abuse of hundreds of athletes under his medical care, USA Gymnastics team doctor Larry Nassar faced 156 of the women he victimized when they testified at his sentencing hearing and detailed the abuse. Cruel optimism as organizing strategy in USA Gymnastics: The threat of high-stakes organizations in precarious times Cruel optimism as organizing strategy in USA Gymnastics: The threat of high-stakes organizations. ![]()
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