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- Title
BE SEEING YOU: A REJOINDER TO WEBSTER AND ROBINS AND TO JENKINS.
- Authors
Sewell, Graham
- Abstract
This article presents the author's a reply to criticisms on his and Barry Wilkinson's 1992 article, Someone to Watch Over Me, which focuses on an uncriticised managerial praxis, operating under the influence of the twin themes of inventory reduction and a total quality orientation. In responding to the salient criticisms of F. Webster and K. Robins the author has returned to Foucault in order to buttress his arguments and support his reading of his published works as they have been applied to the workplace. This is not particularly problematic in their case as they acknowledge their intellectual debt to Foucault and remain broadly sympathetic to his ideas. However, this is problematic when addressing the concerns identified by A. Jenkins, clearly a Foucault sceptic who, by drawing on Merquior, embraces nothing less than a sustained intellectual and even moral polemic against Foucault. In responding to the former authors it is a question of degree, to the later author it may well be a question of imagination. Looking beyond the confines of academic interest we can see that surveillance seems to have caught the public imagination, becoming something of a zeitgeist. Indeed, it has never been a more fashionable topic, the author thinks that the analytical strengths and weaknesses of the Panopticon simultaneously lie in its role as a hybrid trope for Foucault's conception of panoptic discipline.
- Subjects
MANAGEMENT; TOTAL quality management; INTELLECTUALS; WORK environment; MANAGEMENT styles
- Publication
Sociology, 1996, Vol 30, Issue 4, p785
- ISSN
0038-0385
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/0038038596030004009