Power, Subjectivity and Strategies of Resistance: The Case of the Acme School
Manki, Mohammad A., Tamara : Journal of Critical Postmodern Organization Science
ABSTRACT
The central aim of this study is to provide a critical analysis of oppositional practices in the workplace by exploring the role of worker subjectivity in shaping and articulating contemporary strategies of resistance. First, a theoretical analysis will be presented which seeks to challenge many of the dualistic assumptions that have underpinned traditional studies of resistance. It is argued that the reentry of subjectivity into the analysis of resistance provides a means for escaping these dualisms and retrieving the analytical and empirical significance of oppositional practices. The argument suggests that although subjectivities are indeed effects of power, and that …
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Publication information:
Article title: Power, Subjectivity and Strategies of Resistance: The Case of the Acme School.
Contributors: Manki, Mohammad A. - Author.
Journal title: Tamara : Journal of Critical Postmodern Organization Science.
Volume: 2.
Issue: 4
Publication date: January 1, 2003.
Page number: 52+.
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