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Diversity, Affect and Embodiment in Organizing

Palgrave Macmillan
  • 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)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xv
  2. Introducing Affective Embodiment and Diversity

    • Marianna Fotaki, Alison Pullen
    Pages 1-19
  3. Empirical Studies of Diversity and Affective Embodiment

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 111-111
    2. Uniform Matters: Body Possibilities of the Gendered Soldier

      • Sine N. Just, Line Kirkegaard, Sara Louise Muhr
      Pages 113-138
    3. Bounded Complexity of Bodily Realities: The (Dis)Embodiment of Elderly Lesbians

      • Bärbel S. Traunsteiner, Regine Bendl
      Pages 163-194
  4. Critical Political Approaches on Affective Embodiment

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 247-247
    2. Reverie as Reflexivity

      • Darren T. Baker
      Pages 305-329
  5. Back Matter

    Pages 331-335

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

  • Warwick Business School, University of Warwick, Coventry, UK

    Marianna Fotaki

  • Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia

    Alison Pullen

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.


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