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Co-operative competition: a Foucauldian perspective (1997)

McGovern, Siobhain; Mottiar, Ziene

Co-operative competition: a Foucauldian perspective (1997)

McGovern, Siobhain; Mottiar, Ziene

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This paper considers the extent to which Michel Foucault's conception of power gives a useful explanation of power relations between firms. It examines the perceived shift in the nature of interfirm relations from the traditional model in which firms operate as autonomous units within a competitive industry, to the co-operative competition model whereby firms engage in co-operation at certain levels of their operations and compete at other levels. It argues that the concepts of power and competition are closely intertwined and that an understanding of how power operates can give a greater understanding of the nature of competition within an industry. However the issue of power relations in the presence of co-operative competition has not been adequately explored by the literature. An analysis of the type of power reflected in interfirm relations is held as being the key to understanding the simultaneous existence of co-operation and competition between firms.

http://doras.dcu.ie/2161/

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Discipline and punish? Strategy discourse, senior manager subjectivity and contradictory power effects (2014)

Dick, Penny; Collings, David G.

Discipline and punish? Strategy discourse, senior manager subjectivity and contradictory power effects (2014)

Dick, Penny; Collings, David G.

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Responding to calls for a more localized and dispersed conceptualization of power in the study of strategy discourse and its power effects, this paper examines how such effects undermine and contradict each other in a mundane, routine interaction: a research interview between a corporate elite actor and one of the authors. Using a Foucauldian inspired discursive psychology approach to provide a critical analysis of brief stretches of talk in a research interview, we expose the inherent instability and contingency of strategy discourse as it is used to construct accounts of corporate success, failure and senior manager subjectivity. Our core contribution is to show that resistance to strategy discourse is discernible not only through how lower level or other actors contest or undermine this discourse, but also by observing the efforts of corporate elites to manage temporary breakdowns (Sandberg and Tsoukas, 2011) which disrupt the background consensus which ordinarily provides strat...

http://doras.dcu.ie/20970/

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Genealogy, method (2009)

Crowley, Una

Genealogy, method (2009)

Crowley, Una

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Genealogy is a historical perspective and investigative method, which offers an intrinsic critique of the present. It provides people with the critical skills for analysing and uncovering the relationship between knowledge, power and the human subject in modern society and the conceptual tools to understand how their being has been shaped by historical forces. Genealogy works on the limits of what people think is possible, not only exposing those limits and confines but also revealing the spaces of freedom people can yet experience and the changes that can still be made (Foucault 1988). Genealogy as method derives from German philosophy, particularly the works of Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900), but is most closely associated with French academic Michel Foucault (1926-24). Michel Foucault’s genealogical analyses challenge traditional practices of history, philosophical assumptions and established conceptions of knowledge, truth and power. Genealogy displaces the primacy of the subje...

http://mural.maynoothuniversity.ie/3024/

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Labour of Love: An Archaeology of Affect as Power in E-Commerce (2003)

Jarrett, Kylie

Labour of Love: An Archaeology of Affect as Power in E-Commerce (2003)

Jarrett, Kylie

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In the discourses of the electronic commerce (e-commerce) industry, con- sumers are alleged to be empowered by the affective relations they establish in online communities. This article investigates this claim using a Foucauldian archaeological framework. It seeks to identify the key social and historical con- ditions that have enabled this representation to appear and to become a viable characterization. The question it examines is not whether consumers are actu- ally empowered by e-commerce, but why it is deemed important to interro- gate online consumers’ affective activity in terms of power.

http://mural.maynoothuniversity.ie/4664/

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Pedagogical injustice and counter-terrorist education (2017)

O'Donnell, Aislinn

Pedagogical injustice and counter-terrorist education (2017)

O'Donnell, Aislinn

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This article addresses the way in which the securitisation of education, effected through initiatives in counter-terrorism such as Prevent, leads to what I call ‘pedagogical injustice’ for students and teachers. It analyses the implications of the pre-crime agenda in the space of the classroom and draws upon literature on epistemic injustice, communicative injustice and institutional prejudice to explain why bringing counterterrorist legislation into education undermines the educational endeavour. It argues that by re-framing the Prevent agenda in the language of therapy, resilience and well-being, indicators guiding its implementation that might otherwise be seen as illegitimate or even illegal forms of profiling are given credence in the spheres of education and other domains which demand pastoral care from professionals. By targeting ideas instead of focusing on violence, Prevent undermines educators. Foucault describes this kind of blurring of discourses as ubuesque and examines...

http://mural.maynoothuniversity.ie/11417/

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The history of medical geography after Foucault (2007)

Kearns, Gerard

The history of medical geography after Foucault (2007)

Kearns, Gerard

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Medical geography is a small sub-discipline of academic geography. Its presence within histories of geography depends in part upon whether geography is considered as a discipline or whether there is a broader understanding of geographies as forms of practical and popular knowledge. lf we take the second approach, medical geography would seem to be quite important in the development of geographical imaginations. There are connections of cause and responsibility between these popular and academic geographies. Quite often, popular knowledges get treated as precursors of academic disciplines yet the connections are reciprocal and continuing. Medical topics appear in histories of geography under two main guises: as an occasion of environmentalism or as a field of spatial analysis (Mayer 1990). These two form the backbone of this chapter. I begin by indicating some of the ways these two aspects of medical geography have featured in histories of geography. Then, I consider ...

http://mural.maynoothuniversity.ie/12997/

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