Diversity, Affect and Embodiment in Organizing

Diversity, Affect and Embodiment in Organizing edited by Marianna Fotaki, Alison Pullen.

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, a...

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Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Fotaki, Marianna (Editor), Pullen, Alison (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
Edition:1st ed. 2019.
Series:Springer eBook Collection.
Subjects:
Organization.
Planning.
Diversity in the workplace.
Manpower policy.
Employee health promotion.
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Electronic access restricted to members of the Holy Cross Community.
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Introducing Affective Embodiment and Diversity; Marianna Fotaki and Alison Pullen
  • Part I. Theoretical Developments: Affect, Bodies and Diversity
  • 2. The Political and Ethical Potential of Affective Resonance between Bodies; Justine Grønbæk Pors
  • 3. Nurturing Bodies: Exploring Discourses of Parental Leave as Communicative Practices of Affective Embodiment; Sine N. Just and Robyn V. Remke
  • 4. Body-sensitive Diversity Research between Enablement and Disablement; Laura Dobusch
  • 5. The Sick Body: Conceptualizing the Experience of Illness in Senior Leadership; Peter P. Ghin
  • Part II. Empirical Studies of Diversity and Affective Embodiment
  • 6. Uniform Matters: Body Possibilities of the Gendered Soldier; Sine N. Just, Line Kirkegaard and Sara Louise Muhr
  • 7. Dancers as Inter-corporeality: Breaking Down the Reluctant Body; Emmanouela Mandalaki
  • 8. Bounded Complexity of Bodily Realities: The (Dis)Embodiment of Elderly Lesbians; Bärbel S. Traunsteiner and Regine Bendl
  • 9. The Embodiment of Otherness: Deconstructing Power Relations between Staffing Agencies, Diverse Jobseekers and Organizations in the Israeli Business Sector; Shani Kuna and Ronit Nadiv
  • 10. Disembodied Senior Managers: The Perspective of Male Senior Managers in an Australian Hospitality Organisation; Mahan Poorhosseinzadeh, Glenda Strachan and Kaye Broadbent
  • Part III. Critical Political Approaches on Affective Embodiment
  • 11. Embodying the Social: Desire and Devo(ra)tion at the Teatro Oficina; Gazi Islam
  • 12. Affect, Diversity and the Problem of Consolation in the Critique of Public Servant Identity; Francisco Valenzuela
  • 13. Reverie as Reflexivity; Darren Thomas Baker. .

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