Overview
- Combines theoretical and empirical contributions that critically question the exercise of power in organizations
- Advances research that specifically addresses the body by relating to patterns of discrimination and privilege in organizations
- Provides a fresh perspective on social, cultural and organizational contexts to problematize diversity discourse
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Theoretical Developments: Affect, Bodies and Diversity
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Empirical Studies of Diversity and Affective Embodiment
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Critical Political Approaches on Affective Embodiment
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About this book
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.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
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.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Diversity, Affect and Embodiment in Organizing
Editors: Marianna Fotaki, Alison Pullen
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-98917-4
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Business and Management, Business and Management (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-98916-7Published: 21 January 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-98917-4Published: 06 December 2018
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 335
Topics: Organization, Diversity Management/Women in Business, Human Resource Development, Employee Health and Wellbeing