Foucaults Dispositive: The Perspicacity of Dispositive Analytics in Organizational Research

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    Abstract

    While Foucault’s work has had a crucial impact on organizational research, the analytical potential of the dispositive has not been sufficiently developed. The purpose of this article is to reconstruct the notion of the dispositive as a key conception in Foucault’s thought, particularly in his lectures at the Collège de France, and to develop dispositional analytics with specific reference to matters of organization. Foucault’s dispositional analysis articulates a history of interrelated social technologies that have been constructed to organize how we relate to each other. The article distinguishes various dispositional prototypes. It shows how dispositional analytics leads the way beyond general periodizations and established dichotomies such as the either-or of the discursive and non-discursive, power and freedom, determinism, and agency; and it demonstrates how dispositional analytics can contribute to a more complex understanding of organizational dynamics, power, strategy, resistance, and critique. Dispositional analytics allows for a new interpretation and use of Foucault in relation to organization studies.
    OriginalsprogEngelsk
    TidsskriftOrganization
    Vol/bind23
    Udgave nummer2
    Sider (fra-til)272-298
    Antal sider27
    ISSN1350-5084
    DOI
    StatusUdgivet - mar. 2016

    Emneord

    • Analytics
    • Critique
    • Discipline
    • Dispositive
    • Foucault
    • Law
    • Power
    • Resistance
    • Security

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