Building a Social Materiality
Spatial and Embodied Politics in Organizational Control
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20501142 |
|---|---|
| Authors | K Dale (0000-0001-8881-5375, University of Leicester Management Centre, UK, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2005 |
| Volume | 12 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 649-678 |
| Publication date | 2005-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Organization (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1350-5084 • E-ISSN: 1461-7323 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/1350508405055940 |
| OpenAlex | W2127425040 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 127 |
| References cited | 44 |
The purpose of this article is to explore the relevance of ‘materiality’ to understanding changing modes of control in organizational life. In doing this, materiality is not placed in a dualistic relationship with social relations. Rather a conceptualization of ‘social materiality’ is developed whereby social processes and structures and material processes and structures are seen as mutually enacting. In developing this concept of social materiality, I have drawn upon insights from three areas of social theory. These are studies of material culture, Lefebvre’s work on the ‘social production of space’, and sociological and phenomenological approaches to embodiment. The final section of the article explores how control and materiality are linked through spatial politics in one organizational case
Aesthetics · Conceptualization · Embodied cognition · Epistemology · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Management and Organizational Studies · Philosophy
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Symbols and Artifacts
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Bodies in a Landscape
Corporate Transformations
Sociological Analysis
Introduction
Workplaces of the Future
The Nature of Capital
Consumption and Identity at Work
What Do Bosses Really Do
Theory, culture and society
Phenomenology of Perception
The production of space
The condition of postmodernity
L'urbanisation du capital
The Nature of Work
Places and Their Pasts
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Body-Subject/Body-Power
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Someone to Watch Over Me
Power and Subjectivity at Work
Techniques of the body∗
| Unique citing works | 127 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 6,05 |
| Citation span | 2005 - 2026 (22) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | Yes |
| Citation types | Neutral: 122 |