Diversity, Affect and Embodiment in Organizing

338 Pages·2019·3.666 MB·English

by  Marianna Fotaki, Alison Pullen

Edited by
Marianna Fotaki · Alison Pullen
Diversity, Affect
and Embodiment in
Organizing
Diversity, Affect and Embodiment in Organizing
Marianna Fotaki • Alison Pullen
Editors
Diversity, Affect and
Embodiment in
Organizing
Editors
Marianna Fotaki Alison Pullen
Warwick Business School Macquarie University
University of Warwick Sydney, NSW, Australia
Coventry, UK
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Preface
This collection emerged from a European Group on Organization Studies
stream on Diversity, Embodiment and Affect, convened by us together
with Marieke van den Brink in 2016. Most of the chapters presented
here shaped the conversations that took place in hot, humid Naples - it
was an embodied affair as we stuck together in a classroom of the univer-
sity, trying to function academically. It was indeed a stream in which
affective embodiment manifested in our conversations, in the relation-
ship developed between diverse stream participants, and in the produc-
tive and negative experiences of being involved in conference
activities. After the conference, we approached scholars who offered the
collection more diversity in terms of their philosophical contribu-
tions and global outlook. Writing and editing this volume was a truly
collaborative work and as such the editors’ names follow alphabetical
order. It was also a thoroughly enjoyable project and we both learned a lot
from it. We are delighted with the collection and thank everyone involved
in its production. As we go to print, and we look around the corners of
the world that we live and travel in, the threats to diversity are abundant,
populations are assaulted, and individual bodies are violated. And in our
own profession the neoliberal university threatens the very work that we
do. It is collections like these which house the political commitments of
our authors, and the moral responsibility to challenge oppressive forces
that give us a sense of purpose. Critical diversity is not only about gender,
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race, sexuality, or disability although these are important issues in and of
themselves. It is also about multiple and persistent inequalities that con-
cern us all in many different ways. Our aim is to show how these are lived
through bodies, and how the mobilized affect involved in sustaining
them can be used to disrupt the unequal regimes in organizations and
society. We hope this volume is a small contribution towards counteract-
ing the oppression and threats that prevent people from leading liveable
and meaningful lives.
Coventry, UK Marianna Fotaki
Sydney, NSW, Australia Alison Pullen
Contents
1 Introducing Affective Embodiment and Diversity 1
Marianna Fotaki and Alison Pullen
Part I Theoretical Developments: Affect, Bodies and
Diversity 21
2 The Political and Ethical Potential of Affective Resonance
Between Bodies 23
Justine Grønbæk Pors
3 Nurturing Bodies: Exploring Discourses of Parental Leave
as Communicative Practices of Affective Embodiment 47
Sine N. Just and Robyn V. Remke
4 Body-Sensitive Diversity Research Between Enablement
and Disablement 69
Laura Dobusch
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5 The Sick Body: Conceptualizing the Experience of Illness
in Senior Leadership 91
Peter P. Ghin
Part II Empirical Studies of Diversity and Affective
Embodiment 111
6 Uniform Matters: Body Possibilities of the Gendered
Soldier 113
Sine N. Just, Line Kirkegaard, and Sara Louise Muhr
7 Dancers as Inter-Corporeality: Breaking Down the
Reluctant Body 139
Emmanouela Mandalaki
8 Bounded Complexity of Bodily Realities: The
(Dis)Embodiment of Elderly Lesbians 163
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 195
Shani Kuna and Ronit Nadiv
10 Disembodied Senior Managers: The Perspective of Male
Senior Managers in an Australian Hospitality
Organisation 225
Mahan Poorhosseinzadeh, Glenda Strachan, and Kaye
Broadbent
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Part III Critical Political Approaches on Affective
Embodiment 247
11 Embodying the Social: Desire and Devo(r)ation at the
Teatro Oficina 249
Gazi Islam
12 Affect, Diversity, and the Problem of Consolation in the
Critique of Public Servant Identity 275
Francisco Valenzuela
13 Reverie as Reflexivity 305
Darren T. Baker
Index 331
Notes on Contributors
Darren T. Baker is an expert on equality, corporate social responsibility, and
leadership. He is Assistant Professor of and Lecturer in Business and Society at
the School of Business, University College Dublin (UCD). He is also a visiting
fellow at Cranfield University School of Management. He has previously taught
at the Schools of Business and Management in King’s College London and
Queen Mary University. He holds an MA from the University of Oxford and a
PhD from the King’s College London. Baker is a psychosocial scholar in the
areas of gender, social mobility, and responsible leadership.
Regine Bendl is a professor and Head of the Institute for Gender and Diversity
in Organizations of the Vienna University of Economics and Business. She has
received national and international awards for her research and publishes in
edited volumes and international peer-reviewed journals. Together with Inge
Bleijenbergh, Elina Henttonen and Albert Mills, she edited the Oxford Handbook
on Diversity in Organizations (2015). She gained editorial experience as editor of
Diversitas (2010–2014), editor of Equality, Diversity and Inclusion—An
International Journal (2010–2015), associate editor of Gender, Work and
Organization, and editorial board member of the British Journal of Management.
Kaye Broadbent has published widely on gender, insecure work, and unions.
Her publications include Women’s Employment in Japan and two co-edited vol-
umes Women and Labour Organizing in Asia and Gender and the Professions. Her
research interests include insecure employment in Australian universities and
wartime labor resistance in Japan.
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