The discourse of Michel Foucault: A sociological encounter

Peter Armstrong

CRITICAL PERSPECTIVES ON ACCOUNTING, 2015, vol. 27, issue C, 29-42

Abstract: Michel Foucault is a major source for the idea in critical accounting and organizational studies that identities (selves, subjectivities) are discursively constituted. This return to the text is intended as a clarification of what Foucault actually says on this matter and an assessment of how far it can be regarded as authoritative. The major conclusions are as follows.

Keywords: Critique; Social; Crítica; Social; Foucault; Discourse; Discursive constitution; Subject; Subjectification; Archaeology; Power–knowledge (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1016/j.cpa.2013.10.009

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