You are here

Body and Organization
Share

Body and Organization

First Edition
Edited by:


April 2000 | 272 pages | SAGE Publications Ltd
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.
 
Introduction
The Body and Organization

 
 
PART ONE: FUNCTIONS AND FLOWS
Karen Dale and Gibson Burrell
What Shape Are We in? Organization Theory and the Organized Body
Stephen Linstead
Dangerous Fluids and the Organization-without-Organs
 
PART TWO: DISCOURSE AND REPRESENTATION
Catherine Casey
Sociology Sensing the Body
Revitalizing a Dissociative Discourse

 
Martin Parker
Manufacturing Bodies
Flesh, Organization, Cyborgs

 
Hugo Letiche
Situating Complexity
The Body (Nude)

 
 
PART THREE: PERFORMANCE AND REGULATION
Philip Hancock and Melissa Tyler
'The Look of Love'
Gender and the Organization of Aesthetics

 
Ian Lennie
Embodying Management
Craig Pritchard
The Body Topographies of Education Management
Johanna Hofbauer
Bodies in a Landscape
On Office Design and Organization

 
 
PART FOUR: SELF AND IDENTITY
Joanna Brewis and John Sinclair
Exploring Embodiment
Women, Biology and Work

 
Janice Richardson
What Can a Body Do?
Sexual Harassment and Legal Procedure

 
Deborah Kerfoot
Body Work
Estrangement, Disembodiment and the Organizational 'Other'

 

`...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' - Area

For instructors

Please contact your Academic Consultant to check inspection copy availability for your course.

Select a Purchasing Option

ISBN: 9780761959182
£54.00
ISBN: 9780761959175
£158.00

SAGE Knowledge is the premier social sciences platform for SAGE and CQ Press book, reference and video content.

The platform allows researchers to cross-search and seamlessly access a wide breadth of must-have SAGE book and reference content from one source.