The Desire to Rethink Power AND Performativity AND Process. Issue 12 (December 2021)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Fouweather, Ian; Bosma, Bas
• Other Names: Simpson Barbara guest-editor.; Harding Nancy guest-editor.; Fleming Harding guest-editor.; Sergi Viviane guest-editor.; Hussenot Anthony guest-editor.
• Is Part Of: Organization studies. Volume 42:Issue 12(2021)
• Page Start: 1795
• Page End: 1815
• Publication Date: 2021-12
• Subjects: Deleuze -- desire -- performativity -- power -- process -- resistance; Organizational sociology -- Periodicals; Organizational behavior -- Periodicals; Organization -- Periodicals; 302.35
• DOI: 10.1177/0170840621997622
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0170-8406

Abstract

Power AND performativity AND process. Three concepts. Three theoretical perspectives that shape current studies of organizing, of organizations, how they come into existence and how they are maintained. Three distinct trajectories that have already been traced; their separate articulations creating tension, paradox and contradiction. Can we resist existing conceptualizations to create new immanent relations? Can we dissolve the necessity of binary logics, of order, of finality, and embrace simultaneity and multiplicity? In this paper we reimagine the interplay between power and performativity, embracing the role of resistance within the emergent micro-processes of organizational becoming. To do this we take inspiration from the work of Gilles Deleuze.