Body and Organization

by John Hassard, Ruth Holliday, Hugh Willmott

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780761959175
Publisher:	SAGE Publications
Publication date:	06/06/2000
Pages:	272
Product dimensions:	6.56(w) x 9.64(h) x 0.77(d)

Table of Contents

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'