Body and Organization [Paperback]

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.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.`...the eclectic range of chapters should provide new insights into embodied social practices within organizations from the literatures of cultural studies, anthropology, sociology, social theory and psychology.... The opportunity to work across discplinary boundaries that is celebrated here is perhaps the most interesting development in contemporary economic geography and adherents of this openness will find much to stimulate their imagination and further reading in the papers in this edited volume' - AreaIntroduction
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 thelcA