Democracy in an Age of Corporate Colonization: Developments in Communication and the Politics of Everyday LifeAccording to Deetz, our obsolete understanding of communication processes and power relations prevents us from seeing the corporate domination of public decision making. For most people issues of democracy, representation, freedom of speech, and censorship pertain to the State and its relationship to individuals and groups, and are linked to occasional political processes rather than everyday life decisions. This work reclaims the politics of personal identity and experience within the work environment as a first step to a democratic form of public decision-making appropriate to the modern context. |
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Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Corporate Colonization of the Life World | 13 |
Communication and the Politics of Everyday Life | 45 |
The Role of Communication Studies | 65 |
The Historical Relation of Communication and Democracy | 91 |
Language and the Politics of Experience | 113 |
Participation as a Normative Ideal for Democracy and Communication | 145 |
Systematically Distorted Communication and Discursive Closure | 173 |
The Subject and Discourse of Managerialism | 221 |
Disciplinary Power and Discursive Formations at Work | 249 |
The Imaginary World of Work Reproblematizing the Obvious | 289 |
Workplace Democracy as a Responsive Micropractice | 331 |
Bibliography | 353 |
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The Rise of the Modern Corporate Form | 199 |
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| Title | Democracy in an Age of Corporate Colonization: Developments in Communication and the Politics of Everyday Life SUNY Series in Communication Studies SUNY series in speech communication |
| Author | Stanley Deetz |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | SUNY Press, 1992 |
| ISBN | 0791408639, 9780791408636 |
| Length | 399 pages |
| Subjects | › Business & Economics / Negotiating Political Science / General Social Science / General |
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