Organizing the “unknown subject”: Los Alamos, espionage, and the politics of biography

Taylor, Bryan C.

doi:10.1080/00335630209384358

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“…Particularly since the ‘discursive turn’ of the last 20 years in organization studies, organizational communication scholars have been integral to the emergence of a critical mass of scholarship that addresses organizations as discursively constructed. In fact, a copious literature in our field examines ‘organizations as discourse’ from various perspectives, including interpretive (Cheney, 2000; Pacanowsky and O’Donnell‐Trujillo, 1982; Putnam, 1983; Putnam and Pacanowsky, 1983; Trujillo, 1992; Trujillo and Dionisopoulos, 1987), rhetorical (Bullis and Tompkins, 1989; Cheney, 1983, 1991; Taylor, 1993, 2002; Tompkins and Cheney, 1985), critical (Deetz, 1982, 1985, 1992; Helmer, 1993; Howard and Geist, 1995; Mumby, 1987, 1988), postmodern (Barker, 1993; Holmer Nadesan, 1996, 1999) and feminist (Ashcraft, 2000, 2001; Ashcraft and Pacanowsky, 1996; Buzzanell, 1994, 1995, 2000; Clair, 1998; Gregg, 1993; Mumby, 1996; Trethewey, 1997, 1999b). Although much of this work meets Martin and Collinson's call for improvisation and innovation, in that it reflects ‘an emphasis on the changing, shifting and dynamic character of (gendered) organizational processes’ (2002, p. 257), little of it is cited in the various management‐related fields 2…”

Section: The Case For Striking Out: Organizational Communication As Amentioning

confidence: 99%

Organizational Communication Studies and Gendered Organization: A Response to Martin and Collinson

Mumby

Ashcraft²

2006

Gender Work & Organization

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chart the obstacles scholars face in developing an integrated body of research on gender and organization. Arguing that the impediments to such an endeavour far outweigh the incentives, they suggest that gender and organization scholars 'strike out' on their own to establish a new, autonomous field of 'gendered organization'. In this essay, we build on Martin and Collinson's case, suggesting one way that striking out could be realized in its positive (venturing forth) rather than negative (baseball) sense.Our response stems from our own positioning as critical-feminist researchers who 'do scholarship' in the US-based field of organizational communication. This field of study is disciplinarily distinct from, but informally related to, such cognate fields as management and organization studies. Although absent from Martin and Collinson's case, organizational communication studies represents an emergent site of scholarship that already wrestles with many of the obstacles to disciplinary development faced by the nascent field of gendered organizations. Given its position in the academic interstices between the more established disciplinary communities that study organization, our field is situated -institutionally, intellectually, and ideologically -to function as an inclusive, integrative site of gender and organization scholarship, across bodies of water and disciplinary boundaries. And yet, despite such a potential, many scholars concerned with gendered organization appear to remain unaware of our field's existence.With this essay, we seek to enhance awareness of organizational communication studies and to further develop the potential of our field to contribute to the study of gender and organization. Acting as ambassadors of sorts, we aim to introduce gender, work and organization scholars to organizational communication research on gender, power, and organization and to demonstrate how that research represents a significant exception to the key patterns I

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Section: The Case For Striking Out: Organizational Communication As Amentioning

confidence: 99%

Organizational Communication Studies and Gendered Organization: A Response to Martin and Collinson

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Ashcraft²

2006

Gender Work & Organization

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“…The damage caused by nuclear capabilities from Hiroshima and Nagasaki has generated major changes not only on the geopolitical scene, but also in society, leading to a real nuclear culture marked by symbols like: "events (such as the Cuban Missile Crisis), figures (such as Mikhail Gorbachev), communities (such as "nuclear downwinders"), sites (such as the Soviet nuclear weapons laboratory, , policies (such as containment), institutions (such as the Strategic Air Command), and technologies (such as ballistic missile defense)" [2]. The nuclear arsenal held by US at the end of WW2 made that the balance of power to incline seriously in favour of Western Allies.…”

Section: Ideology and Nuclear Secretmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Superiority of Information and the Power of the Nation State

Bojor

2018

International Conference KNOWLEDGE-BASED ORGANIZATION

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Access to valuable information has been, is and will continue to be the focus of all the nation states. The benefits of access to information cannot be questioned, but the volatile nature of this Power Information has shown over time that a state's inability to keep its secrets leads to the loss of this power. The present paper captures historical milestones of information gathering activity that have greatly changed the balance of power between the state actors involved.

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“…First, rhetorical scholars have worked from a variety of perspectives in security studies (Bean, 2009(Bean, , 2010(Bean, , 2013Hasian, 2010;Mitchell, 2006;B. Taylor, 1996B. Taylor, , 2002.…”

Section: Participatory Critical Rhetoric and Critical Security Studiesmentioning

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Thank You for Participating in Security

McHendry

2016

Cultural Studies ↔ Critical Methodologies

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Airport security procedures enact a performative repertoire of security policies and procedures that govern airport security. Using my own body to register the affective modes of airport security, I engage participatory critical rhetoric as a method to assess airport security’s repertoire of rhetorical performances. Affect is a particularly valuable concept for understanding the ways travelers are conditioned to comply with Transportation Security Administration’s (TSA) directives as they move through security checkpoints. The screening processes perform acts of security that stand in tension with the resistive politics they enable. In this essay, I argue that security and resistance are performative modes ( security performative and resistance performative) enacted in TSA’s airport security checkpoints. These modes produce a secured airport and a defiant public. Bodies that TSA “secures” enact affective states of security (and anxiety).

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Organizing the “unknown subject”: Los Alamos, espionage, and the politics of biography

Cited by 11 publications

References 22 publications

Organizational Communication Studies and Gendered Organization: A Response to Martin and Collinson

Organizational Communication Studies and Gendered Organization: A Response to Martin and Collinson

The Superiority of Information and the Power of the Nation State

Thank You for Participating in Security

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