Diversity, Affect and Embodiment in Organizing

✍ Scribed by Marianna Fotaki, Alison Pullen

• Publisher: Springer International Publishing,Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2019
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 338
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter ....Pages i-xv
Introducing Affective Embodiment and Diversity (Marianna Fotaki, Alison Pullen)....Pages 1-19
Front Matter ....Pages 21-21
The Political and Ethical Potential of Affective Resonance Between Bodies (Justine Grønbæk Pors)....Pages 23-46
Nurturing Bodies: Exploring Discourses of Parental Leave as Communicative Practices of Affective Embodiment (Sine N. Just, Robyn V. Remke)....Pages 47-67
Body-Sensitive Diversity Research Between Enablement and Disablement (Laura Dobusch)....Pages 69-89
The Sick Body: Conceptualizing the Experience of Illness in Senior Leadership (Peter P. Ghin)....Pages 91-110
Front Matter ....Pages 111-111
Uniform Matters: Body Possibilities of the Gendered Soldier (Sine N. Just, Line Kirkegaard, Sara Louise Muhr)....Pages 113-138
Dancers as Inter-Corporeality: Breaking Down the Reluctant Body (Emmanouela Mandalaki)....Pages 139-161
Bounded Complexity of Bodily Realities: The (Dis)Embodiment of Elderly Lesbians (Bärbel S. Traunsteiner, Regine Bendl)....Pages 163-194
The Embodiment of Otherness: Deconstructing Power Relations Between Staffing Agencies, Diverse Jobseekers, and Organizations in the Israeli Business Sector (Shani Kuna, Ronit Nadiv)....Pages 195-224
Disembodied Senior Managers: The Perspective of Male Senior Managers in an Australian Hospitality Organisation (Mahan Poorhosseinzadeh, Glenda Strachan, Kaye Broadbent)....Pages 225-245
Front Matter ....Pages 247-247
Embodying the Social: Desire and Devo(r)ation at the Teatro Oficina (Gazi Islam)....Pages 249-273
Affect, Diversity, and the Problem of Consolation in the Critique of Public Servant Identity (Francisco Valenzuela)....Pages 275-303
Reverie as Reflexivity (Darren T. Baker)....Pages 305-329
Back Matter ....Pages 331-335

✦ Subjects

Business and Management; Organization; Diversity Management/Women in Business; Human Resource Development; Employee Health and Wellbeing