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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
June 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
