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Organizing Processes and the Construction of Risk: A Discursive Approach

Maguire, S ; Hardy, C (Academy of Management, 2013)

This study examines the organizing processes through which products “become” risky. Drawing on a case study of chemical risk assessment and management processes in Canada and comparing two chemicals, it identifies a series of enacted practices that bundle into two forms of social ordering: “normalizing” and “problematizing.” By bringing the past to bear differently on organizing processes, these two forms of social ordering structure the discursive work of actors in both their attempts to stabilize and their attempts to destabilize and change meanings of risk objects. As a result, objects “become” risky or safe in different ways.
Treading fine lines

Hardy, C (SAGE Publications, 2013)

This article reflects on the different ways in which the concept of power is treated in elite U.S. journals compared with European journals. Some observers have argued that critical researchers should not bother to try and publish their work in elite U.S. journals because of the compromises that have to be made in doing so. This essay argues that a “limited engagement” with these journals constitutes one way of trying to resist the power/knowledge relations that are so deeply embedded in them.