Performance pinned down: Studying subjectivity and the language of performance

Organization Studies

Volumn 31, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 1021-1044

  Hoedemaekers, Casper ^a   Keegan, Anne ^b  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

control; discourse; Lacan; metonymy; subjectivity; symbolic order

Indexed keywords

EID: 77956158643     PISSN: 01708406     EISSN: 17413044     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0170840610376145     Document Type: Article

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