Refuses to Be Governed as Discourses of Dignity: Dignity in the Foucauldian Perspective

Jones Carlos Louback ()

Chapter Chapter 4 in Organizational Dignity and Evidence-Based Management, 2021, pp 47-57 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract In this chapter, we proposed thinking dignity in a Foucauldian light, in the sense that refusals to be governed are a way of expressing discourses of dignity, or even better, that discourses of dignity underlie the refusals to be governed. Refusals to be governed are expressions of discourses of dignity. These refusals are refusals to a government that does not recognize rights, demanding the recognition of non-recognized rights. The discourses of dignity are discourses that claim the recognition of rights, ultimately the right of not being governed. Therefore, refusals to be governed are not synonym to discourses of dignity. Rather, they are expressions of those underlying discourses, discourses about recognition of rights that effectively are synonyms to dignity. Not only discourses on legal rights, but any and all rights. Reading dignity in the Foucauldian light means discussing dignity in the scope of the power relationships. As organizations are social, political, and economic entities, understanding dignity in the organization’s context in the light of governmentality assumptions enables an analytical differential of dignity in the intra- and inter-organization relationships, opening new perspectives to management.

Keywords: Refuses; Dignity; Governamentality (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-68560-7_4

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