Diversity, Affect and Embodiment in Organizing, 1st ed. 2019

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.

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.  

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.