Body and Organization

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 OrganizationPART ONE: FUNCTIONS AND FLOWSWhat Shape Are We in? Organization Theory and the Organized Body - Karen Dale and Gibson BurrellDangerous Fluids and the Organization-without-Organs - Stephen LinsteadPART TWO: DISCOURSE AND REPRESENTATIONSociology Sensing the Body - Catherine Casey Revitalizing a Dissociative DiscourseManufacturing Bodies - Martin Parker Flesh, Organization, CyborgsSituating 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 AestheticsEmbodying Management - Ian LennieThe Body Topographies of Education Management - Craig PritchardBodies in a Landscape - Johanna Hofbauer On Office Design and OrganizationPART FOUR: SELF AND IDENTITYExploring Embodiment - Joanna Brewis and John Sinclair Women, Biology and WorkWhat Can a Body Do? - Janice Richardson Sexual Harassment and Legal ProcedureBody Work - Deborah Kerfoot Estrangement, Disembodiment and the Organizational 'Other'