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"Post-foundational discourse analysis, also labelled as the Essex School in Discourse Analysis, has been observed to suffer from considerable methodological deficiencies that limit its applicability in empirical research. This book adds the missing link between post-foundational discourse theory and the methods of empirical research, and in doing so it develops a post-foundational discourse analysis research program. The book offers a structure of the research program, and also explores the methodologization of other discourse analytical approaches, making the book of great value to researchers in all disciplines of social science and human studies"--

1. Specters of entrepreneurship -- 2. The culture of enterprise -- 3. Discourse, difference, meaning -- 4. Political discourse -- 5. Discourse analysis -- 6. Liberal-conservative politics for functioning market economy : 1991-1994 -- 7. Social-democratic politics for full employment : 1994-1997 -- 8. Securing the welfare in the KBE : 1997-2004 -- 9. The specters of entrepreneurship.

This book provides an empirical study of the increasing importance of the concept of the entrepreneur in the context of the neoliberal cultural paradigm. Using the theoretical framework of the post-structural discourse theory and methods of qualitative discourse analysis, the book describes the changes in political discourse that resulted in the increasing dominance of the figure of the entrepreneur after the late 1980s.

Die aktuelle Bildungssoziologie lässt keinen Zweifel daran, dass eine transnationale Konvergenz von Strategien und Praktiken politischer Regierung von Bildung aktuell stattfindet. In diesem Zusammenhang stellt die sog. "evidenzbasierte Bildung" eine weltweit verbreitete bildungspolitische Reformidee dar, die in England entstanden ist und inzwischen auch in Deutschland eingeführt wurde. Ziel des laufenden Forschungsprojektes, dessen empirische Erkenntnisse dieser Beitrag zum ersten Mal präsentiert, ist herauszufinden, wie die "Evidenzwende" der Bildungspolitik in Deutschland von der Entstehung eines transnationalen Feldes evidenzbasierter Bildung ermöglicht wurde.

Post-foundational discourse analysis, also labeled as Essex School in Discourse Analysis, has been observed to suffer from a considerable methodological deficit that limits its applicability in empirical research. The principal aim of this article is to overcome this methodological deficit by constructing the research program of the post-foundational discourse analysis that facilitates its operationalization in empirical research. In accordance with Imre Lakatos (1970) and David Howarth (2004a), a research program is referred to an internally consistent and openly scrutinizable system of theoretical, methodological and phenomenal concepts that opens up the possibility to distinguish between the "negative" and the "positive" heuristics of empirical research. The first three sections develop the positive heuristics of the post-foundational discourse analysis by elucidating its theoretical foundations, methodological position and phenomenal framework. The concluding fourth section draws on the presented positive heuristics to outline the analytical stages and strategies of the post-foundational discourse analysis and discusses suitable methods for sampling and interpreting empirical data. (author's abstract)

Foucaultian governmentality research has turned out a very powerful tool for analyzing social processes and logics involved in recent appreciation of the entrepreneur as the role model for the conduct of states, organizations and private businesses. However, the lack of interest in further methodological elaboration of governmentality research has left it unclear how the particular theoretical perspective of governmentality researchers influences their empirical observations. The principal aim of this article is to overcome the methodological deficit in governmentality research and indicate one possible way of how the theoretical, methodological, and empirical levels of analysis could be interlinked in a consistent and scrutinizable manner. The suggestion presented for methodologization of governmentality research draws on the methodological insights gained in the French epistemological tradition by Gaston Bachelard, Pierre Bourdieu, Georges Canguilhem, Rainer Diaz-Bone and Michel Foucault. It is argued that the reflexive methodology and its key methodological principles of epistemological break and holistic methodology as they were developed in the French epistemological tradition provide a number of instructive insights on how to join the theoretical, methodological and empirical levels of analysis. However, this article goes beyond methodological discussion and applies the elaborated methodological instructions to a case study on the governmentalization of entrepreneur in Swedish governmental discourse.

FOUCAULTian governmentality research has turned out a very powerful tool for analyzing social processes and logics involved in recent appreciation of the entrepreneur as the role model for the conduct of states, organizations and private businesses. However, the lack of interest in further methodological elaboration of governmentality research has left it unclear how the particular theoretical perspective of governmentality researchers influences their empirical observations. The principal aim of this article is to overcome the methodological deficit in governmentality research and indicate one possible way of how the theoretical, methodological, and empirical levels of analysis could be interlinked in a consistent and scrutinizable manner. The suggestion presented for methodologization of governmentality research draws on the methodological insights gained in the French epistemological tradition by Gaston BACHELARD, Pierre BOURDIEU, Georges CANGUILHEM, Rainer DIAZ-BONE and Michel FOUCAULT. It is argued that the reflexive methodology and its key methodological principles of epistemological break and holistic methodology as they were developed in the French epistemological tradition provide a number of instructive insights on how to join the theoretical, methodological and empirical levels of analysis. However, this article goes beyond methodological discussion and applies the elaborated methodological instructions to a case study on the governmentalization of entrepreneur in Swedish governmental discourse.URN: http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:0114-fqs1303106 ; Die FOUCAULTsche Gouvernementalitätsforschung hat sich als wirkmächtiges Werkzeug erwiesen, um jene sozialen Prozesse und Logiken zu untersuchen, die "den Unternehmer" zum Leitbild für das Handeln von Staaten, Organisationen und Wirtschaftsunternehmen haben werden lassen. Wegen des bisher eher mangelnden Interesses an der Methodologisierung der Gouvernementalitätsforschung ist aber unklar geblieben, wie die empirischen Beobachtungen der ...

Foucaultian governmentality research has turned out a very powerful tool for analyzing social processes and logics involved in recent appreciation of the entrepreneur as the role model for the conduct of states, organizations and private businesses. However, the lack of interest in further methodological elaboration of governmentality research has left it unclear how the particular theoretical perspective of governmentality researchers influences their empirical observations. The principal aim of this article is to overcome the methodological deficit in governmentality research and indicate one possible way of how the theoretical, methodological, and empirical levels of analysis could be interlinked in a consistent and scrutinizable manner. The suggestion presented for methodologization of governmentality research draws on the methodological insights gained in the French epistemological tradition by Gaston Bachelard, Pierre Bourdieu, Georges Canguilhem, Rainer Diaz-Bone and Michel Foucault. It is argued that the reflexive methodology and its key methodological principles of epistemological break and holistic methodology as they were developed in the French epistemological tradition provide a number of instructive insights on how to join the theoretical, methodological and empirical levels of analysis. However, this article goes beyond methodological discussion and applies the elaborated methodological instructions to a case study on the governmentalization of entrepreneur in Swedish governmental discourse.

Foucaultian governmentality research has turned out a very powerful tool for analyzing social processes and logics involved in recent appreciation of the entrepreneur as the role model for the conduct of states, organizations and private businesses. However, the lack of interest in further methodological elaboration of governmentality research has left it unclear how the particular theoretical perspective of governmentality researchers influences their empirical observations. The principal aim of this article is to overcome the methodological deficit in governmentality research and indicate one possible way of how the theoretical, methodological, and empirical levels of analysis could be interlinked in a consistent and scrutinizable manner. The suggestion presented for methodologization of governmentality research draws on the methodological insights gained in the French epistemological tradition by Gaston Bachelard, Pierre Bourdieu, Georges Canguilhem, Rainer Diaz-Bone and Michel Foucault. It is argued that the reflexive methodology and its key methodological principles of epistemological break and holistic methodology as they were developed in the French epistemological tradition provide a number of instructive insights on how to join the theoretical, methodological and empirical levels of analysis. However, this article goes beyond methodological discussion and applies the elaborated methodological instructions to a case study on the governmentalization of entrepreneur in Swedish governmental discourse.

Frontmatter --Contents --Introduction --Theoretical (Re)Positionings --The World and the Real: --Encountering Post-Foundationalism in J.K. Gibson-Graham's Space of Pregnant Negativity --On Shaky Ground: --Institution and Dislocation: --Badiou as a Post-Foundationalist --Spacing Rancière's Politics --[Un]Grounding Geographies --[Un]Grounding Agonistic Public Space: --Always Geographize! --The Most Sublime Geographer: --Modelling the Market as a Socio-Spatial Structure: --Post-Foundationalism in the City --(Non)Building Alliances: --Politicizing Air: --Materialization of Antidiscipline: --How Does The [Un]Grounded Interface Generate Possibilities for Spatial Alternatives? --A Post-Foundational Conception of Politics and Space: --Authors