Eric P James
Biographic Data
| ID | 6895398 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Eric P James |
| GIVEN NAMES | Eric P |
| FAMILY NAME | James |
| SIGNATURE | JAMES E P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Metropolitan State University of Denver |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1173-3923 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 2 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 2 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Extreme wellness at work: Whose body counts in the rise of exceptionalist organisational fitness cultures
Management has long concerned itself with controlling workers’ bodies, with organisational wellness discourses being its latest fixation. This article’s purpose is to introduce and understand ‘whose body counts’ – a discourse of bodily exceptionalism in performative organisational cultures. Using ethnographic methods, this article presents an analysis of a CrossFit workplace health promotion at an underperforming US corporation, to identify a com…
Neoliberalism and the Communicative Labor of CrossFit
This article examines the “Xtreme” fitness zeitgeist and its implications for agency beyond the gym. Specifically, we explore CrossFit, a particularly prominent fitness program, in light of the ways that neoliberal discourses and the exigencies of being self-made pointedly inform contemporary understandings of gender and the body. Drawing on data from an ethnographically inspired study, we suggest that CrossFit constructs its ideal participant th…
Neoliberalism and the Communicative Labor of CrossFit
This article examines the “Xtreme” fitness zeitgeist and its implications for agency beyond the gym. Specifically, we explore CrossFit, a particularly prominent fitness program, in light of the ways that neoliberal discourses and the exigencies of being self-made pointedly inform contemporary understandings of gender and the body. Drawing on data from an ethnographically inspired study, we suggest that CrossFit constructs its ideal participant th…
Neoliberalism and the Communicative Labor of CrossFit
This article examines the “Xtreme” fitness zeitgeist and its implications for agency beyond the gym. Specifically, we explore CrossFit, a particularly prominent fitness program, in light of the ways that neoliberal discourses and the exigencies of being self-made pointedly inform contemporary understandings of gender and the body. Drawing on data from an ethnographically inspired study, we suggest that CrossFit constructs its ideal participant th…
Extreme wellness at work: Whose body counts in the rise of exceptionalist organisational fitness cultures
Management has long concerned itself with controlling workers’ bodies, with organisational wellness discourses being its latest fixation. This article’s purpose is to introduce and understand ‘whose body counts’ – a discourse of bodily exceptionalism in performative organisational cultures. Using ethnographic methods, this article presents an analysis of a CrossFit workplace health promotion at an underperforming US corporation, to identify a com…
Aesthetics (2 works) · Exceptionalism (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Politics (2 works) · Social science (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Agency (philosophy (1 works) · Critical discourse analysis (1 works)