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Discourse, Power, and Knowledge in the Management of "Big Science"

The Production of Consensus in a Nuclear Fusion Research Laboratory

William J. Kinsella

Lewis and Clark College

This article extends a Foucauldian view of power/knowledge to the archetypical knowledge-intensive organization, the scientific research laboratory. Although Foucault hesitated to extend his analytics of power to the so-called hard sciences, rhetorical and social studies of science provide a foundation for such an extension. The article describes the discursive production of power/knowledge at a "big science" laboratory conducting nuclear fusion research and illuminates a critical incident in which the fusion research "discipline" imposes normative "discipline" on individual scientists and research teams. Here scientific knowledge is not solely a product of data and theory but emerges from a discursive formation in which management practices and institutional context frame the relationship between knowledge and power.

Management Communication Quarterly, Vol. 13, No. 2, 171-208 (1999)
DOI: 10.1177/0893318999132001
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