vv
While personally I am skeptical of many of some of the more elaborate claims
that are made for the explanatory power of Foucault's work in relationship
to organizationally bounded relations of power/knowledge and their
subjectivizing outcomes, his work has been very influential within UK
organizational analysis and Labour Process Theory.
I hope some of the following references may be of use, although few of them
relate directly to gender:
Burrell, G. (1988) ?Modernism, Postmodernism and Organizational Analysis
2: The Contribution of Michel Foucault¹, Organization Studies 9(2): 221-235.
Clegg, S. (1994) ³Weber and Foucault: Social Theory for the Study of
Organizations¹, Organization 1(1) 179-201.
Donzelot J. (1991) ?Pleasure in Work¹. In Buthcher G. et. al. (Ed) The
Foucault Effect: Studies in Govermentality pp. 251-280. London: Harvester
Wheatsheaf.
Grey, C. (1994) ?Career As A Project Of The Self And Labour Process
Discipline¹, Sociology 28(2): 479-497.
Knights, D. and Vurdubakis, T. (1994) ?Foucault, Power, Resistance and All
That¹, in Jermier, J., Knights, D. and Nord, W. (eds.) Resistance and Power
in Organizations pp. 167-198. London: Routledge.
Knights, D, and Willmott , H. (1989) ?Power and Subjectivity at Work: From
Degradation to Subjugation in Social Relations¹, Sociology 23(4): 535-558.
McKinlay, A. and Starky, K. (eds.) Foucault, Management and Organization
Theory: From Panopticon to Technologies of Self London: Sage.
Rose, N. (1989) Governing the Soul: The Shaping of the Private Self London:
Routledge.
Sewell G. and Wilkinson B. (1992b) ?³Someone to Watch Over Me²:
Surveillance, Discipline and the Just-In Time Labour Process¹, Sociology
26(2) 271-289.
Townley B. (1994) Reframing Human Resource Management London: Sage.
Tretheway, A. (1999) ?Disciplined Bodies: Women¹s Embodied Identities at
Work¹, Organization Studies 20 (3): 423-450.
Willmott, H. (1994) 'Theorizing Agency: Power and Subjectivity in
Organization Studies' in Parker, M and Hassard, J. (eds.) Towards a New
Theory of Organizations London: Routledge.
Best wishes
Philip
Philip Hancock
School of Social Sciences
Glasgow Caledonian University
Cowcaddens Road
Glasgow
G4 0BA
Tel: 0141 331 3492
Fax: 0141 331 3439
E-Mail: P.Hancock@xxxxxxxxxx
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> ----------
> From: valkiain@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> To: foucault@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Foucault, Gender, Organizations
> Date: Sat, Oct 16, 1999, 1:30 pm
>
>
> Hi everybody,
>
> I have just recently joined the list and would like to know whether there is
> anybody who is interested in applying Foucault's power-knowledge-bodies
> prism to
> analyzing organizational practices as and through the processes of
> subjectivation. I am particularly keen on practices of gendering the
> workforce
> and what social and political implications do these subjectivating practices
> bear on the 'body of labor.' It sounds rather elusive, I know, but this is
> exactly why I would like to take up the issue of concrete empirical analysis
> of
> the modes of subjectivation as and through the social organization of
> bodies.
> Broadly put, I want to ask how much is Foucault and his genealogical 'tools'
> susceptible, so to speak, of empirical analysis as such? And if they are, as
> it
> seems to me, then how could one embark on concrete empirical study? Has
> anybody
> come across these issues in general, and especially the ones pertaining to
> gender and organizations?
>
> vv
>
>
>
While personally I am skeptical of many of some of the more elaborate claims
that are made for the explanatory power of Foucault's work in relationship
to organizationally bounded relations of power/knowledge and their
subjectivizing outcomes, his work has been very influential within UK
organizational analysis and Labour Process Theory.
I hope some of the following references may be of use, although few of them
relate directly to gender:
Burrell, G. (1988) ?Modernism, Postmodernism and Organizational Analysis
2: The Contribution of Michel Foucault¹, Organization Studies 9(2): 221-235.
Clegg, S. (1994) ³Weber and Foucault: Social Theory for the Study of
Organizations¹, Organization 1(1) 179-201.
Donzelot J. (1991) ?Pleasure in Work¹. In Buthcher G. et. al. (Ed) The
Foucault Effect: Studies in Govermentality pp. 251-280. London: Harvester
Wheatsheaf.
Grey, C. (1994) ?Career As A Project Of The Self And Labour Process
Discipline¹, Sociology 28(2): 479-497.
Knights, D. and Vurdubakis, T. (1994) ?Foucault, Power, Resistance and All
That¹, in Jermier, J., Knights, D. and Nord, W. (eds.) Resistance and Power
in Organizations pp. 167-198. London: Routledge.
Knights, D, and Willmott , H. (1989) ?Power and Subjectivity at Work: From
Degradation to Subjugation in Social Relations¹, Sociology 23(4): 535-558.
McKinlay, A. and Starky, K. (eds.) Foucault, Management and Organization
Theory: From Panopticon to Technologies of Self London: Sage.
Rose, N. (1989) Governing the Soul: The Shaping of the Private Self London:
Routledge.
Sewell G. and Wilkinson B. (1992b) ?³Someone to Watch Over Me²:
Surveillance, Discipline and the Just-In Time Labour Process¹, Sociology
26(2) 271-289.
Townley B. (1994) Reframing Human Resource Management London: Sage.
Tretheway, A. (1999) ?Disciplined Bodies: Women¹s Embodied Identities at
Work¹, Organization Studies 20 (3): 423-450.
Willmott, H. (1994) 'Theorizing Agency: Power and Subjectivity in
Organization Studies' in Parker, M and Hassard, J. (eds.) Towards a New
Theory of Organizations London: Routledge.
Best wishes
Philip
Philip Hancock
School of Social Sciences
Glasgow Caledonian University
Cowcaddens Road
Glasgow
G4 0BA
Tel: 0141 331 3492
Fax: 0141 331 3439
E-Mail: P.Hancock@xxxxxxxxxx
----------
> ----------
> From: valkiain@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> To: foucault@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Foucault, Gender, Organizations
> Date: Sat, Oct 16, 1999, 1:30 pm
>
>
> Hi everybody,
>
> I have just recently joined the list and would like to know whether there is
> anybody who is interested in applying Foucault's power-knowledge-bodies
> prism to
> analyzing organizational practices as and through the processes of
> subjectivation. I am particularly keen on practices of gendering the
> workforce
> and what social and political implications do these subjectivating practices
> bear on the 'body of labor.' It sounds rather elusive, I know, but this is
> exactly why I would like to take up the issue of concrete empirical analysis
> of
> the modes of subjectivation as and through the social organization of
> bodies.
> Broadly put, I want to ask how much is Foucault and his genealogical 'tools'
> susceptible, so to speak, of empirical analysis as such? And if they are, as
> it
> seems to me, then how could one embark on concrete empirical study? Has
> anybody
> come across these issues in general, and especially the ones pertaining to
> gender and organizations?
>
> vv
>
>
>