The purpose of this article is to explore the relevance ‘materiality’ understanding changing modes control in organizational life. In doing this, materiality not placed a dualistic relationship with social relations. Rather conceptualization ‘social materiality’ developed whereby processes and structures material are seen as mutually enacting. developing concept materiality, I have drawn upon insights from three areas theory. These studies culture, Lefebvre’s work on production space’,...

In this article, we are concerned with the ethical implications of entanglement embodiment and non-human materialities. We argue for an approach to which recognises its inextricable relationship multiple From this, three points made: first, relation ‘things’ not simply as inanimate objects but neglected Others humanity’s (social material) world. Second, there is a need recognise different particularities within these entanglements. draw on work Merleau-Ponty Levinas think through how radical...

‘Organizational wellness’ has become a high profile issue for businesses. We argue that ‘wellness movement’ sprung up around particular coalescence of economic, ideological and organizational interests. In this article we re-read the discourse ‘movement’ through lens ‘organized embodiment’. wellness operates as rhetorical device which masks contradictory power relations. It serves to hide differential occupational effects opportunities workers, obscures relationship between its necessary...

In a context of increased precarity and inequality, this paper focuses on ‘outreach’ activities – the sharing resources support, time conversation between volunteers homeless people in Lyon, France. Based participant observation data over 18 months, with Non-Profit-Organisations (NPOs), focus lies face-to-face dialogic encounters people. The first contribution highlights centrality vulnerability to social relations, its possibilities shift challenge existing assumptions categories ‘the...

This article focuses on how the categories of ‘normal’ and ‘extreme’ in context work might be renegotiated through development human enhancement technologies which aim to enable body pushed beyond its biological limits. The ethical dimensions have been widely considered, but there has little debate about their role broader world employment—nor, conversely, recognition that prevailing employment relationships shape uptake such technologies. Addressing organisation within ‘advanced’ capitalist...

In this paper, we look at buildings from the 'disturbing' perspective of ruin and ruination. The relationship between ruins appears to be an antithesis, one organisation disorganisation: a dyad mutually exclusive opposites. However, try show how is more complex multifaceted so that rather than being play opposites, it which enacting inextricably entwined. We explore three aspects mutuality building ruin. first consideration their structuring de‐structuring. Second, into multiplicity meanings...

Organisations engage in remembering and commemorative practices, often to produce effects of stability continuity create shared meanings culture, yet commemoration has been a relatively neglected theme the study organisations. The articles this Special Issue range across diverse examples provide rich understanding dynamic complex processes involved organisation commemoration. In particular, they illustrate importance paying attention materialities, spatiality embodiment lived experience...

Introduction: Body Politics The and Organisation Studies Written on the Body: Social Theory Bodily Knowledge: An Approach to Embodied Subjectivity Scalpel: Introduction Anatomising Urge Under Knife: Mirror Replicating Conclusions

This paper considers the politics of how organizations remember their past through commemorative settings and artefacts. Although these may be seen as ‘merely’ a backdrop to organizational activity, they form part lived experience spaces that its members enact on daily basis routes routines. The main concern is with commemoration bound up in reflection reproduction hierarchies recognition. Illustrated reference two settings, explores perpetuate narrow set symbolic ideals attributing value...

This article examines the equal opportunities policies of a local authority which were intended to improve representation black women managers. It reports types initiatives and proportions employed in different grades over time; discusses organisational context, contrasting views personnel line managers, EO specialists, with those who had achieved senior positions. These latter accounts illustrated how inequalities sustained despite, at times articulation with, an policy was relatively...

Many basically different types of generating units, such as nuclear, hydroelectric, steam- and gas-turbine could be added to a system meet constantly growing installed-capacity requirements. Since each these may also vary considerably in capital cost, size, efficiency, fuel site location, there are very large number possible choices time new unit is needed. Moreover, once purchased, its known fixed charges continue for the life plant, while operating costs will initially depend on...

Our paper contributes to studies of Indigenous organizing and organizations. We draw on knowledge which recognizes that everything is connected within networks relationships extend post-colonial theory hybridity. case study research with Australia’s only Indigenous-owned credit union identifies how hybridity co-constituted through ‘friction’ in the ‘contact zone’ where local kinship relations audit practices meet grapple. Focusing allows us better understand everyday produces build existing...