This article presents poststructural reflexivity as a way to both deconstruct the performativity of one’s own research practice and consider how researcher subjectivity is constituted within process. I present two vignettes moments discomfort conducting ‘in field’ which we argue create sense unease when shifting subjectivities regimes power become more visible. draw upon Foucauldian Discourse A...

This paper suggests a critical, poststructuralist approach to information technology (IT) research and utilizes it in the analysis of user involvement in the IT artifact product development context. Central concepts of the approach are outlined. Textuality of IT artifacts is emphasized. Afterwards, user involvement literature addressing the product development context is critically reviewed. In...

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 I. Individualism, politics, and the modern state . . . 7 II. Stirner’s critique of transcendentalism and the fixed idea . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 III. Poststructuralism and the epistemological problem with the fixed idea . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 IV. The Politics of the Self . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 Conclusion . . ....

BACKGROUND Although the overall rate of smoking in Australia continues to decline, the rate of decline has begun to slow. Rates of smoking among young women in Australia have been a particular concern, which has led to the development of targeted public health campaigns. Poststructuralist theory has successfully been used in research to explore the way in which young women experience smoking. H...

INTRODUCTION During the past decade, several scholars in the fields of language education, second language acquisition, and bilingualism have addressed the influence of gender on access to linguistic and interactional resources, on dynamics of classroom interaction, and on language learning outcomes (Ehrlich, 1997; Norton, 2000; Pavlenko, 2001; Pavlenko et al., 2001; Sunderland, 2000). The fiel...

The central normative concern of this paper is the prospects of global democracy, examined from the point of view of poststructuralist theory. A particular empirical focus is on the recent Russian debate about democracy, sovereignty and relations with the West. In the first section I outline a poststructuralist approach to this notion, based mostly on the neo-Gramscian theory of discourse devel...