The meaning of local knowledges: Genealogy and organizational analysis

Kenneth Mølbjerg Jørgensen

Scandinavian Journal of Management, 2002, vol. 18, issue 1, 29-46

Abstract: Foucault's studies of power/knowledge relations provide an alternative methodology for the study of knowledge and organizing, namely the genealogy. Process and pluralism are at the heart of genealogy. It challenges the unitary sciences and emphasises the concrete, independent and contextual character of knowledges. It seeks to uncover the different knowledges and the interaction between them that are behind organized patterns. Finally, it encourages a focus on specific practices such as techniques, projects and tasks in and around which the differences play together and interact in specific ways. Genealogy turns science on its head since it opposes any unifying narrative and allows knowledges to maintain their own identities. The analysis assumes an "ascending" form, whereby phenomena of a more general kind emerge from the study of practices.

Keywords: Genealogy; Local; knowledges; Practices (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2002
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