Cite as: Davis, H. (2009). Troubling invisible barriers to better futures: surfacing the "five languages of war" in the workplace. 14th International Conference on Thinking. Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, ICOT-09.
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Using the Perkins framework of the...
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Cite as: Davis, H. (2009). Troubling invisible barriers to better futures: surfacing the "five languages of war" in the workplace. 14th International Conference on Thinking. Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, ICOT-09.
Abstract:
Using the Perkins framework of the "five languages of war" this paper will explore how the language of hegemonic economic rationalism has permeated everyday work in the higher education sector in Australia. As Perkins spoke about the rhetoric and consequences of his five languages of war at ICOT-07 the dawning realisation for me was that I was being managed by this oppositional language in the guise of economic rationalist practice. The experience of being in the audience that day had a profound effect on me and influenced the direction of my current PhD study.
This paper will draw on Perkins’s five languages of war: the language of gain and God; the language of dominance and resistance; the language of good and evil; the language of regrettable necessity, and, the la
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