The Dispositive: Foucault’s Concept for Organisational Analysis?

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    Abstract

    Foucault’s notion ‘the dispositive’ has been introduced in organisation studies as a highly promising concept. However, its analytical and empirical potentials remain to be fully explored. This article develops a framework which conceives of organizations as pervaded by multiple dispositives that interact, reinforce or contradict one another. Extending dispositional analysis with self-technologies, the framework integrates Foucault’s ‘axis of power’ with the ‘axis of ethics’ which have often been kept separate. This integration allows considering how subjects rearticulate or ‘bend’ dispositives in their practices of self-constitution. The framework’s potentials are explored in a study of health care professionals’ responses to a management reform that standardized and depersonalized care-giving.
    OriginalsprogEngelsk
    Publikationsdato2018
    StatusUdgivet - 2018
    Begivenhed2018 HSSA Symposium - The UC-Berkeley Career Center, Berkeley, USA
    Varighed: 16 nov. 201816 nov. 2018

    Konference

    Konference2018 HSSA Symposium
    LokationThe UC-Berkeley Career Center
    Land/OmrådeUSA
    ByBerkeley
    Periode16/11/201816/11/2018

    Emneord

    • Foucault
    • Dispositive
    • Elderly care
    • Care ethics
    • Law
    • Discipline
    • Security

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