financial inclusion in south africa: small business owners’ discourses of self-determination
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Presented at Stream 20, Critical Entrepreneurship Studies
Leicester, United Kingdom
July 2015
Financial inclusion in South Africa:
Small business owners’ discourses of
self-determination
Graunt Kruger and Louise Whittaker
Wits Business School, University of the Witwatersrand,
Johannesburg, South Africa
To Do1. Background and
motivation for the study
2. About the photographs
3. A contemporary genealogy
1. Modes of objectification as
discourses
2. Uncovering aspects of
discourse
3. An analytical method for
texts
4. Creating texts from
interview in local contexts
4. Local discourses of
financial practices
5. Proposing a fourth mode
of objectification
6. Conclusions and
implications
Michel Foucault
1926-1984
“My objective … has
been to create a
history of different
modes by which, in our
culture, human beings
are made subjects. My
work has dealt with
three modes of
objectification which
transform human beings
into subjects”
(p. 208).
Foucault, M. (1982). The subject and power. In H. L. Dreyfus & P. Rabinow (Eds.), in Michel
Foucault: Beyond Structuralism and Hermeneutics. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Photograph copyright: http://www.michel-foucault.com/gallery/pictures/foucault08.html
Source: www.doorway.co.za/images/maps/gauteng.gif; www.freeworldmaps.net/africa/political.gif
Tembisa –
2600’55”S 2814’00”E
Mama Thembi: “I don’t
want to be poor.”
Lebo: “Low class shops
can’t swipe.”
Scientific
Classification
Subjectification
Self-
determination
Dividing
Practices
Embodied
Disembodied
Imposed
Locus of Power
Origin of
Subject Positions and
Problems
Local/Emergent
Concluding Remarks
