Fotaki / Pullen Diversity, Affect and Embodiment in Organizing

1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-3-319-98917-4
Verlag: Springer International Publishing
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 338 Seiten

Reihe: Progress in Mathematics

Bringing together research from critical diversity studies and organization theory, this edited collection challenges unspoken norms and patterns of discrimination in organizational bodies. The authors problematize the management of diversity by focusing on the differentiations between racialized, aged, gendered and sexed bodies. By taking a fresh approach and placing the body at the forefront of power relations, this thought-provoking book seeks to challenge the homogenizing and oppressive dimensions of organizational governance, structure and culture that deny bodily difference. An insightful read for scholars of HRM, diversity management and organization, Diversity, Affect and Embodiment in Organizing encourages an active approach to tackling discrimination and recognizes the diversity of embodied lives.

Marianna Fotaki is Professor of Business Ethics at Warwick Business School, UK, and holds a visiting professorship at the University of Manchester. She has published over 40 papers on the marketization of public services, health inequalities, gender and otherness in organizations, and business in society in leading international journals.  Alison Pullen is Professor of Management and Organization Studies at Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia. Her primary research interests concern the dynamics of identity and gender as they play out in organizational settings. Alison's current writing also concerns the critical appraisal of feminism in organization and the development of feminist research methodologies.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Fotaki, Marianna

Pullen, Alison

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;Preface;5
2;Contents;7
3;Notes on Contributors;10
4;List of Tables;14
5;1: Introducing Affective Embodiment and Diversity;15
5.1;The Diverse Goals of Diversity in Organizations;15
5.2;Why Embodiment and Affect Matters for Understanding Diversity?;19
5.3;Summary and Questions Addressed;20
5.4;Ways Forward;27
5.5;References;29
6;Part I: Theoretical Developments: Affect, Bodies and Diversity;34
6.1;2: The Political and Ethical Potential of Affective Resonance Between Bodies;35
6.1.1;Prologue;35
6.1.2;Introduction;37
6.1.3;Theorizing Affective Resonance Between Bodies;40
6.1.3.1;Political and Ethical Potential of Affective Resonance Between Bodies;41
6.1.4;Methodology;43
6.1.4.1;Setting;45
6.1.5;Management Seminar: Defensive Routines;47
6.1.6;Analysis;49
6.1.6.1;Co-subjective Circuit of Affects;50
6.1.6.2;Messy Entanglements of Psychological and Political Anxieties;51
6.1.6.3;Transgression of Rational Schemes and Organizational Economies;52
6.1.6.4;Vulnerability as Strength;53
6.1.7;Conclusion;54
6.1.8;References;56
6.2;3: Nurturing Bodies: Exploring Discourses of Parental Leave as Communicative Practices of Affective Embodiment;59
6.2.1;Identity/Difference;61
6.2.2;Communicative Practices of Affective Embodiment;62
6.2.3;The Affective Embodiment of Discourses of Parental Leave;64
6.2.3.1;Leaning In: The Working Mother;66
6.2.3.2;Leaning Out: The Caring Father;67
6.2.3.3;Opting Out: (Not) Your Average Mom;69
6.2.3.4;Opting In: Swedish Dads;70
6.2.4;Discussion—Or: What Is Left Out?;73
6.2.5;Conclusion: Global Embodiments?;75
6.2.6;References;76
6.3;4: Body-Sensitive Diversity Research Between Enablement and Disablement;80
6.3.1;Introduction;80
6.3.2;Diversity Research, Organization Theory, and ‘the Body’: An Ambivalent Relationship;82
6.3.3;Disability Studies and the Body: A Conflictual Relationship;85
6.3.3.1;The Establishment of Disability Studies;86
6.3.3.2;The Social Model of Disability and the Denied Body;88
6.3.3.3;The Cultural Model of Disability and the Insignificant Body;89
6.3.3.4;The Relational Model of Disability and the Acknowledged Body;90
6.3.4;Dis_ability and Embodiment: A Shimmering Relationship;91
6.3.5;Summary and Outlook;94
6.3.6;References;96
6.4;5: The Sick Body: Conceptualizing the Experience of Illness in Senior Leadership;101
6.4.1;Introduction;101
6.4.2;Defining the ‘Sick Body’ in Senior Leadership;103
6.4.3;The Corporate Athlete at Work;105
6.4.4;In Search of the Sick-Bodied Leader;109
6.4.5;Discussion and Conclusion;112
6.4.6;References;115
7;Part II: Empirical Studies of Diversity and Affective Embodiment;121
7.1;6: Uniform Matters: Body Possibilities of the Gendered Soldier;122
7.1.1;Introduction;122
7.1.2;Conceptual Framework: Affect Theory and Its Relevance for Studying Gendered Bodies in Organizations;124
7.1.2.1;Affect, Body, Discourse;126
7.1.2.2;The Affective Body and Body Possibilities;128
7.1.3;Methodology: Narrating Body Possibilities;131
7.1.3.1;Data Collection;131
7.1.3.2;Analytical Strategy;132
7.1.4;Analysis: Affective Figures of Body Possibilities;133
7.1.4.1;Becoming-Soldier;133
7.1.4.2;Becoming-Woman-Not-Soldier;137
7.1.4.3;Becoming-Soldier-Not-Woman;139
7.1.4.4;Becoming-Soldier-Woman;141
7.1.5;Concluding Discussion: Uniform Matters;143
7.1.6;References;145
7.2;7: Dancers as Inter-Corporeality: Breaking Down the Reluctant Body;148
7.2.1;Introduction;148
7.2.2;A Body’s Experience;149
7.2.3;Bodies in the Dance;153
7.2.4;Tales from the Dance Floor;156
7.2.4.1;Boundaries as Opportunities: Re-negotiating Order Through Questioning the Self and the Other;156
7.2.4.2;Re-inventing Gendered Selves Through Transcending Bodily Boundaries;158
7.2.4.3;Affective Bodily Fusion in a Space Between Freedom and Oppression;161
7.2.5;Discussion;162
7.2.6;References;166
7.3;8: Bounded Complexity of Bodily Realities: The (Dis)Embodiment of Elderly Lesbians;171
7.3.1;Introduction;171
7.3.2;Organized Body;174
7.3.3;Study Details and Method;179
7.3.4;Research Results on the Dis/Embodiment of Older Lesbians;180
7.3.4.1;Splitting of the Body into Parts;181
7.3.4.2;Machine Metaphor of the Body That Guides the Relationship of the Parts;183
7.3.4.3;Interweaving of Conceptual Schemes with Actual Institutional Arrangements;186
7.3.4.4;Deconstructive and Reconstructive Imprints;190
7.3.5;Discussion;193
7.3.6;Conclusion;195
7.3.7;References;196
7.4;9: The Embodiment of Otherness: Deconstructing Power Relations Between Staffing Agencies, Diverse Jobseekers, and Organizations in the Israeli Business Sector;203
7.4.1;Introduction;203
7.4.2;The Staffing Industry’s Central Position in the Labor Market;205
7.4.3;Agency Workers and Precarious Work;205
7.4.4;Workforce Diversity;207
7.4.5;Diversity and the Embodiment of Otherness;209
7.4.6;SAs’ Potential Effect on Workforce Diversity in Client Organizations;210
7.4.7;The Research Context: The Israeli Labor Market;210
7.4.8;Method;212
7.4.8.1;Sample;212
7.4.8.2;Data Collection and Analysis;212
7.4.9;Findings;213
7.4.9.1;SAs’ Dual Construction of Workforce Diversity via Their Pool of Applicants;213
7.4.9.2;SAs’ Dual Impact on Workforce Diversity via Practices Aimed at Their Client Organizations;216
7.4.10;Discussion;219
7.4.10.1;Practical Implications;224
7.4.10.2;Limitations and Suggestions for Future Research;225
7.4.11;References;226
7.5;10: Disembodied Senior Managers: The Perspective of Male Senior Managers in an Australian Hospitality Organisation;233
7.5.1;Introduction;233
7.5.2;Gendered Organisations and the “Disembodied Worker”;234
7.5.3;Methodology;240
7.5.4;Findings;242
7.5.4.1;Long-Hours Culture;242
7.5.4.2;Geographical Mobility;244
7.5.4.3;Support and Sponsorship;246
7.5.4.4;The Idea of Traditional Female Traits;247
7.5.5;Discussion;248
7.5.6;References;251
8;Part III: Critical Political Approaches on Affective Embodiment;254
8.1;11: Embodying the Social: Desire and Devo(r)ation at the Teatro Oficina;255
8.1.1;Organizing, Embodiment, and Affect;257
8.1.2;United by Anthropophagy: Organizing Between Bodies;259
8.1.3;Illustrative Case Study: Teat(r)o Oficina Uzyna Uzona;261
8.1.4;Anthropophagic Desire: From Taboo to Totem;263
8.1.5;Stages of Occupation: From Representation to Presence;265
8.1.6;In the Corridor of the Big Snake: Embodied Spaces and Urban Occupations;267
8.1.7;Discussion;269
8.1.7.1;Embodiment and Desire for the Other;270
8.1.7.2;Organizing Presence Versus Organizing Representation;271
8.1.7.3;Political Potentials and Pitfalls of Embodied Organizing;273
8.1.8;Conclusion;274
8.1.9;References;275
8.2;12: Affect, Diversity, and the Problem of Consolation in the Critique of Public Servant Identity;280
8.2.1;Introduction;280
8.2.2;The Affective Governmentality of Public Service as ‘Diverse’ Ground for Identity Work;283
8.2.3;The Problem of Consolation in the Critique of Neoliberal Diversity;288
8.2.3.1;First Step: On the Call for “A Public Servant Without Affection”;288
8.2.3.2;Second Step: On ‘Consolatory’ Critiques and the ‘Affected Researcher’;293
8.2.4;Towards an ‘Inconsolable’ Approach to Affective Diversity;298
8.2.5;References;305
8.3;13: Reverie as Reflexivity;309
8.3.1;Introduction;309
8.3.2;Introducing Reverie;311
8.3.3;Tracing Example Reveries;317
8.3.4;Conclusion;329
8.3.5;References;330
9;Index;334