Organization and Identity

ISBN-13: 9780415322317 / Angielski / Twarda / 2005 / 318 str.

Alison Pullen; Stephen Linstead

Opis

Organization and Identity provides an exploration of identity as a contemporary concern in everyday life and as a key concept in the social sciences, particularly focusing on how ideas about identity can be applied to organization and management studies. The contributors to this volume use and develop recent philosophical thought on the nature of identity to ask questions about the key social divisions of gender, class and nation, such as whether we are able to write our own identity stories or do we remain bound by social constraints and inequalities.

The book fulfills three objectives: it confronts established notions and assumptions about identity and its relevance to organization and management; it looks critically and in detail at the performance of identity in different contexts; and it explores beyond current understandings of identity, asking whether identity itself is a concept which now only has a history. The essays in this collection bring approaches from contemporary philosophy intothe area of organization identity and critically assess their relevance and impact in a way which interrupts identity as a notion.

Spis treści

Contents.  Notes on the Identities of Contributors.  Acknowledgments.  1.Organizing Identity Part 1: Confronting Identity: Selves and Others  2. Now Where Was I? Questioning Assumptions of Consistent Identity 3. Theorizing Narrative-Identity: Symbolic Interactionism and Hermeneutics 4. Self and Other in Everyday Existence: A Mystery not a Problem 5. Living a Story and Storying a Life: A Narrative Understanding of the Distributed Self Part 2: Performing Identities: Selves for Others  6. Career as a Project of the Self and Labour Process Discipline 7. Fetish Failures: Interrupting the Subject and the Other 8. The Mission Statement as Epideictic Rhetoric: Celebrating Organizational Identity 9. Other Work: A Dividual Enterprise Part 3: After Identity...?: Selves in Question  10. Beyond Happy Families: A Critical Reevaluation of the Control-Resistance-Identity Triangle 11. Casting the Other to the Ends of the Earth: Marginal Identity in Organization Studies 12. Making Global Subjects: Diasporic Identity as a Media Event 13. Fluid Identities and Ungendering the Future  14. Identity Aesthetics: Asymmetry and the Assault on Order