“…It considers discourses and discourse users in light of the broader historical and sociopolitical context, and sees texts as ‘sites of struggles’ (Wodak, 2001, p. 11) that are inextricably entwined with material social elements (Mumby, 2011). Existing work mobilizing CDA, and the broader assumption of critical studies that organizations are political sites ‘accomplished in conditions of struggles and domination’ (Deetz, 1996, p. 202), has, for example, looked at how power, legitimacy, identity, or inequality are (re)constructed in and through discursive struggles (Vaara et al ., 2005; Lefsrud and Meyer, 2012; Barros, 2014; Vaara, 2014; Samdanis and Lee, 2019).…”