Table of contents - Special Issue: Discourse, practice, policy and organizing
Guest Editors: Cliff Oswick, Tom Keenoy, Armin Beverungen, Nick Ellis, Ida Sabelis, Sierk Ybema
Discourse, practice, policy and organizing: some opening comments
Cliff Oswick, Tom Keenoy, Armin Beverungen, Nick Ellis, Ida Sabelis, Sierk YbemaThe purpose of this paper is to consider the interplay between discourse, policy and practice in relation to aspects of organization and processes of organizing.
Outsourcing (the) economy to India: utopian and dystopian discourses of offshoring
David Knights, Beverley JonesThe purpose of this paper is to examine critically both utopian and dystopian discourses of offshoring so that a more considered, nonetheless theoretically informed, view of the…
Facing culture: the (de)legitimation of social work
Marja Gastelaars, Marleen van der HaarThe purpose of this paper is to explore how Dutch social workers make sense of the cultural otherness produced by clients with migrant origins and relates this to the various…
Operationalizing Iraqi freedom: Governmentality, neo‐liberalism and new public management in the war in Iraq
Zoë H. WoolTo understand practices of inscription and description used by the US Government in the production of discourse concerning the war in Iraq as part of the post 9/11 War on Terror…
Institutional transformation through positive textual deviance
Danielle P. Zandee, Diana BilimoriaThe paper aims to explore an affirmative, discursive perspective for its potential to expand the current understanding of processes of institutional transformation.
A discursive study of institutionalisation in community organisations
Peri O'SheaThe institutionalisation of neo‐liberalist discourse has significantly changed the way in which the relationship between government and community organisations is described and…
The ideology of markets and the practice of policy: objectivity, control and the objectionable
Geoff Lightfoot, Simon LilleyThe purpose of this paper is to briefly explore some recent curious interlocking of the ideology of markets and the practice of policy.
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