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- Case, Peter, et al.
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Roundtable : health at work
- 2012
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Ingår i: Ephemera. - 2052-1499 .- 1473-2866. ; 11:3, s. 308-318
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Tidskriftsartikel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)
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- Knights, David, et al.
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Gendered incorporations : Critically embodied reflections on the gender divide in organisation studies
- 2011
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Ingår i: International Journal of Work Organisation and Emotion. - 1740-8938 .- 1740-8946. ; 4:3-4, s. 217-235
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Challenging yet extending extant efforts in organisation studies to disrupt the gender divide, we develop an embodied account to more fundamentally dissolve the binaries that divide conventional forms of female and male embodiment. Despite a proliferation of literature on the body and emotion in sociology and organisation studies, it is our view that much of it remains deeply disembodied, treating the body pretty much like any other sociological phenomenon, i.e., as a mere object of study. In seeking to dissolve the gender divide, we incorporate a number of vignettes in an attempt to write our own bodies into the text. While reflecting about our own masculine (David and Torkild) and transgender (Torkild) embodiment, we critically discuss how transgender, in particular, may constitute a vehicle for challenging and disrupting the gender divide.
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- Maravelias, Christian, et al.
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MARCH MEETS MARX : THEPOLITICS OF EXPLOITATIONAND EXPLORATION IN THEMANAGEMENT OF LIFE ANDLABOUR
- 2013
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Ingår i: Managing 'human resources' by exploiting and exploring people's potentials. - : Emerald Group Publishing Limited. - 9781781905050 ; , s. 129-159
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In contrast to the largely functionalist and apolitical literature which dominates organisational scholarship on exploitation and exploration after March, this paper seeks to complement this view of exploitation and exploration with a Marxist reading which is unwittingly implied by these terms. More specifically, we combine neo-Marxist and paleo-Marxist arguments to more fully understand the conflictual relations that underpin exploitation and exploration in the management of firms. This enables us to address both the objective and subjective dimensions of exploitation and exploration which firms and workers are involved in through the contemporary capitalist labour process. We illustrate this by drawing on a case study of a large Swedish manufacturing firm which sought to improve lean production by systematically helping employees to explore their own lifestyles and possibilities for a healthier and happier life.
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- Pullen, Alison, et al.
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Sexual Spaces
- 2010
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Ingår i: Gender, Work and Organization. - : Wiley. - 0968-6673 .- 1468-0432. ; 17:1, s. 1-6
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Tidskriftsartikel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)
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- Thanem, Torkild, 1973-
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All talk and no movement? Homeless coping and resistance to urban planning
- 2012
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Ingår i: Organization. - : SAGE Publications. - 1350-5084 .- 1461-7323. ; 19:4, s. 441-460
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Privileging the discursive expression of micro-resistance while exploiting spatial metaphors such as cynical distancing and escape, recent work in Critical Management Studies (CMS) has tended to find resistance everywhere without actually examining its spatial whereabouts. Utilizing a spatial approach, this article therefore investigates how homeless people in Stockholm not only resisted but also coped otherwise with two urban planning projects that intended to drive them away from two public places. Whereas some of the homeless subverted the planners’ intentions by returning, others confirmed their intentions by leaving. The article further discusses the nomadic nature of these movements and how they were related to homeless discourses of apathy, cynicism and contentment. Finally, it discusses what implications this may have for homeless people and urban planning organizations, and for the understanding of resistance in CMS.
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- Thanem, Torkild, 1973-, et al.
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Buggering Freud and Deleuze : Towards a queer theory of masochism
- 2010
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Ingår i: Journal of Aesthetics & Culture. - : Informa UK Limited. - 2000-4214. ; 2, s. 1-10
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Both Freud’s and Deleuze’s understandings of masochism limit the transgressive and subversive forces of masochism by taking sexual difference for granted. Drawing on Newton’s fashion photography for Wolford and on feminist interrogations of Freud, Deleuze and masochism, this paper therefore seeks to develop an alternative, queer theory of masochism as sexual indifference. Viewing masochism as sexual indifference opens up movements of desire beyond the heterosexual matrix of male masochists and female mistresses. This is therefore an exercise in buggery. In the first half of the paper we bugger Freud’s understanding of masochism with Deleuze’s diverging understanding of masochism. In the second half we bugger Deleuze’s understanding of masochism with other parts of his own work, with feminist critique, and with Newton’s photography.
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- Thanem, Torkild, et al.
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Feeling and speaking through our gendered bodies : Embodied self-reflection and research practice in organisation studies
- 2012
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Ingår i: International Journal of Work Organisation and Emotion. - 1740-8938 .- 1740-8946. ; 5:1, s. 91-108
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Despite the growing organisational literature on the gendered body, we argue that much of this literature remains disembodied. We therefore seek to further embody the study of gendered bodies and organisations by viewing the body as lived gendered embodiment and by writing our own viscerally embodied experiences into our discussion. We first discuss the phenomenological approach to lived gendered embodiment and how this has been utilised in organisation studies. We then discuss how research on lived gendered embodiment might become more viscerally self–reflective. Throughout, we integrate these discussions with our own visceral and gendered self–reflections from teaching and research.
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- Thanem, Torkild
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Free At Last? Assembling, Producing and Organizing Sexual Spaces in Swedish Sex Education
- 2010
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Ingår i: Gender, Work and Organization. - : Wiley. - 0968-6673 .- 1468-0432. ; 17:1, s. 91-112
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article seeks to critically investigate the assembling, production and organization of female and male sexuality in contemporary Swedish sex education. The empirical focus is on booklets and leaflets published by the Swedish Association for Sexuality Education (the RFSU). Employing the concept of assemblages articulated by Deleuze and Guattari and rearticulated in social, organizational and feminist theorizing, the article examines how the RFSU material assembles, produces and organizes the sexual spaces of female and male embodiment (bodily zones, passages, surfaces, interiors, extensions, orifices and cavities) by promoting particular sexual practices. While the RFSU assemblages may seem to express a celebratory attitude towards sexual diversity, freedom and enjoyment, the article argues that the extent to which they undo a dichotomous and stereotypical organization of sexuality and gender is limited. Finally, the article discusses what implications this may have for organization theory.
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- Thanem, Torkild, 1973-
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More passion than the job requires? : Monstrously transgressive leadership in the promotion of health at work
- 2013
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Ingår i: Leadership. - : Sage Publications. - 1742-7150 .- 1742-7169. ; 9:3 (SI), s. 396-415
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Despite Weber’s early emphasis on passionate emotions in charismatic leadership and a recent but broader interest in the embodied and emotional aspects of leadership, we still know relatively little about how passions are embodied in leadership. We also know little about how such passions may transgress formally and socially defined limits of leadership in organizations. Through a case of workplace health promotion this paper therefore investigates how people in organizational leadership roles passionately – and corporeally – transgress the limits of these roles whilst pursuing organizational change. Going beyond extant research, the paper argues that the leaders’ pursuit of health was driven by their own embodied passions as well as by organizational rationales, but that their passions were expressed in largely non-charismatic ways that de-motivated rather than motivated employees.
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- Thanem, Torkild, 1973-, et al.
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Open space = open minds? : Unintended consequences of pro-creative office design
- 2011
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Ingår i: International Journal of Work Organisation and Emotion. - 1740-8938 .- 1740-8946. ; 4:1, s. 78-98
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Recently, open office design has witnessed a shift from formalised design models toward the promotion of fun, spontaneity and creativity through design. Using qualitative data from two case studies, we investigate how this 'new spirit' of open and pro-creative office design may afford a broader range of behaviours than originally intended. We argue that it may actually undermine the kind of creativity that it is intended to foster, producing unforeseen forms of employee creativity that normalise rather than disrupt structures and boundaries. Finally, we discuss what implications this may have for the understanding of organisational politics.
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- Yngfalk, Carl, 1980-
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The Constitution of Consumption : Food Labeling and the Politics of Consumerism
- 2012
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The power dynamics of consumerism is an important aspect of contemporary consumer culture. Within the field of marketing and consumption, consumer culture theory (CCT) tends to understand power in terms of agency, the ability of consumers to emancipate from a market infused by the culture of consumerism. As such, CCT assumes a repressive hypothesis of power, as if consumerism was an external reality from which agentic consumers can escape by acts of dialectical opposition. In contrast, through a Foucauldian approach, the present study emphasizes the productive side of power, arguing that consumerism operates beyond dialectical oppositions to constitute consumption at different levels of scale – at the macro, meso and micro levels. More specifically, through qualitative data generated from official documents and interviews with state agency officials, consumers, and food manufacturers and retailers, the study undertakes a discourse analysis of date labeling in the food market. In accounting for the regulative, organizational and performative dimensions of consumption, the case of date labeling makes it possible to study consumerism at the intersection of the state, business and consumers. The study argues that consumption is constituted through a multiplicity of mundane power struggles that arise in the wake of date labeling. As such, it extends previous approaches by suggesting an extra-dialectical theory of consumer culture. Further, it argues that date labeling reinforces the mind/body dualism of consumerism by privileging cognition and choice at the cost of the human embodiment and sensory perception. It concludes that empowered performativity does not represent a negation of power, but that it emerges as a product of power and the consumerist attempt to constitute effective, predictable, responsible and controlled consumption. However, future research should continue studying the dominant institutional conditions of particular consumption contexts.
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