John Hassard & Ruth Holliday 
Body and Organization [PDF ebook] 

Issues around identity, agency and reflexivity are opened up and explored in a refreshing new perspective that deepens our understanding of organization and institutions.
Body and Organization thorougly invigorates the study of process and brings the organization to three-dimensional life for a new generation of students and researchers.

Tabla de materias

Introduction

The Body and Organization

PART ONE: FUNCTIONS AND FLOWS

What Shape Are We in? Organization Theory and the Organized Body – Karen Dale and Gibson Burrell

Dangerous Fluids and the Organization-without-Organs – Stephen Linstead

PART TWO: DISCOURSE AND REPRESENTATION

Sociology Sensing the Body – Catherine Casey

Revitalizing a Dissociative Discourse

Manufacturing Bodies – Martin Parker

Flesh, Organization, Cyborgs

Situating Complexity – Hugo Letiche

The Body (Nude)

PART THREE: PERFORMANCE AND REGULATION

′The Look of Love′ – Philip Hancock and Melissa Tyler

Gender and the Organization of Aesthetics

Embodying Management – Ian Lennie

The Body Topographies of Education Management – Craig Pritchard

Bodies in a Landscape – Johanna Hofbauer

On Office Design and Organization

PART FOUR: SELF AND IDENTITY

Exploring Embodiment – Joanna Brewis and John Sinclair

Women, Biology and Work

What Can a Body Do? – Janice Richardson

Sexual Harassment and Legal Procedure

Body Work – Deborah Kerfoot

Estrangement, Disembodiment and the Organizational ′Other′