The paradox of empowerment : suspended power and the possibility of resistance / Ronald F. Wendt ; foreword by Isaac E. Catt.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wendt, Ronald F., 1951-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Corporate culture.

Education, Higher.

Power (Social sciences).

Physical Description:

xvii, 192 pages ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2001.

Summary:

Examines the types of communication and power dynamics that create disempowered working and learning environments.

Contents:

Introduction: Corporate Hegemony and the Possibility of Resistance 1

Part I. A Theoretical Grounding and Stories of Organizational Double Binds 9

1. All the Way Down and All the Way Back: Toward a Critical-Postmodern Hermeneutics 11

2. Hegemonic Double Binds 19

3. The Sound of One Hand Clapping: Counterintuitive Lessons Extracted from Paradoxes and Double Binds in Participative Organizations 31

Part II. Double Binds Affecting Women Workers and the Aggressive-Timid Paradox 53

4. Women in Positions of Service: The Politicized Body 55

5. The Too Aggressive-Not Aggressive Enough Paradox 79

Part III. Paradoxes in Corporate Lampoonery, the Notion of Corporate Consumption, and the Paradoxical Role of Technology 93

6. Corporate Lampoonery as a Hermeneutic Sign of Our Times: Reading Dilbert from Critical and Poststructuralist Perspectives 95

7. The Corporate Consumption of Higher Education 113

8. Technology and McEducation 127

Part IV. The Possibility of Resistances and a Critical Reflection 137

9. Building Resistance(s) Through Radical Pedagogy and Tactical Storytelling 139

10. A Critical Reflection 159

Epilogue: 2084

A Skeptic's Forecast 165.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [175]-187) and indexes.

ISBN:

027597233X

OCLC:

45104843