Keeping Democracy Vibrant: Whistleblowing as Truth-Telling in the Workplace

In this article the author explores radical democratic potential in the intersection between private and public spheres situated in the micropolitical practice of whistleblowing in the workplace in Israel. He seeks to reconceptualize the practice of whistleblowing as an act of truth-telling in the workplace by examining philosopher Michael Foucault's concept of parrhesia. He considers the practice of whistleblowing as a reaction to a process of subjectivation involving questions of identity and identification.