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Body and Organization
First Edition
Edited by:
- John Hassard - University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology, UK
- Ruth Holliday - University of Leeds, UK
- Hugh Willmott - Cardiff Business School, UK
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
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
Martin Parker
Manufacturing Bodies
Hugo Letiche
Situating Complexity
PART THREE: PERFORMANCE AND REGULATION
Philip Hancock and Melissa Tyler
'The Look of Love'
Ian Lennie
Embodying Management
Craig Pritchard
The Body Topographies of Education Management
Johanna Hofbauer
Bodies in a Landscape
PART FOUR: SELF AND IDENTITY
Joanna Brewis and John Sinclair
Exploring Embodiment
Janice Richardson
What Can a Body Do?
Deborah Kerfoot
Body Work
`...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
