ABSTRACT
This chapter demonstrates a methodology that employs the use of the empirical distinction of chronotopes to reveal evidence regarding the influence of power and sustaining values during whistleblowing events. The simple methodology juxtaposes brief empirical accounts of whistleblowing events segmented according to a general notion of the chronotope. The methodology is initially illustrated through the chronotopic distinction of two relatively minor whistleblowing events occurring in U.S. academic settings—through the lens of time/space allowing for the emergence of distinctions (Bourdieu, 1986), which reveal the communicative and social workings of power in the experience and lived discourse of whistleblowing events. Three levels of sustaining values present in organizational culture are reflected in the subjectification and subjugation of the organizational voice. The three are identifiable through the application of the chronotopic “x-ray.” Experience in the Norwegian lottery whistleblowing event reflects core, image, and hidden sustaining values.
