Body and Organization

`...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

• IntroductionThe 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 CaseyRevitalizing a Dissociative DiscourseManufacturing Bodies - Martin ParkerFlesh, Organization, CyborgsSituating Complexity - Hugo LeticheThe Body (Nude)PART THREE: PERFORMANCE AND REGULATION′The Look of Love′ - Philip Hancock and Melissa TylerGender and the Organization of AestheticsEmbodying Management - Ian LennieThe Body Topographies of Education Management - Craig PritchardBodies in a Landscape - Johanna HofbauerOn Office Design and OrganizationPART FOUR: SELF AND IDENTITYExploring Embodiment - Joanna Brewis and John SinclairWomen, Biology and WorkWhat Can a Body Do? - Janice RichardsonSexual Harassment and Legal ProcedureBody Work - Deborah KerfootEstrangement, Disembodiment and the Organizational ′Other′