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.
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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′