Discursive opening and closing in organizational self-study: Culture as trap and tool in wildland firefighting safety

319 Author’s Note: The author would like to thank Phillip K. Tompkins and “the fire class” at CU Boulder, who helped to inspire this research. The author would also like to thank Robin Clair, Felicia Roberts, Christine Courtade Hirsch, and three anonymous reviewers for helpful comments on a previous draft of this article. “ . . . firefighters imagined a new culture as one where they would be encouraged to think rather than just obey the rules. Nevertheless, certain discursive closure moves upheld the constitutive steering medium of managing safety by way of rule following.”

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