Spatial Work in Between Glass Ceilings and Glass Walls: Gender-Class Intersectionality and Organizational Aesthetics

Wasserman, Varda; Frenkel, Michal

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“…Our analytical framework reveals underlying tensions as these are experienced and negotiated by participants. In so doing, our study contributes to an important but relatively under-researched area of organisational space as dynamically produced rather than a static pre-given (Halford and Leonard, 2006;Wasserman and Frenkel, 2015) and more broadly to the emerging field of organisational…”

Section: Accepted For Publication In Human Relationsmentioning

confidence: 90%

Performing accountability in health research: A socio-spatial framework

Komporozos-Athanasiou

Thompson

Fotaki

2017

Human Relations

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The article explores how spaces aimed at improving accountability in health systems are socially produced. It addresses the implications of an initiative to promote patient involvement in government-funded research in the context of a large cancer research network in England.We employ a socio-spatial theoretical framework inspired by insights from Henri Lefebvre and Judith Butler to examine how professional researchers, doctors and patients understand and perform accountability in an empirical context. Our data reveals fundamental tensions between formally-required and routinely-enacted dimensions of accountability as these are experienced by patients. Consequently, our analysis argues for a need to augment abstract, professionalised discourse about accountability in health services by acknowledging embodied spaces of representation, in which patients themselves can contribute to making participatory accountability a reality. We suggest that such a shift will provide a more rounded appraisal of patient experiences within health research, and health systems more widely.

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Section: Accepted For Publication In Human Relationsmentioning

confidence: 90%

Performing accountability in health research: A socio-spatial framework

Komporozos-Athanasiou

Thompson

Fotaki

2017

Human Relations

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“…Along with Lefebvre (1991), Tyler and Cohen (2010), and Wasserman and Frenkel (2015), we argue that conceived spaces such as offices incorporate complex constructions of gender as part of the enduring patterns of relations they are designed to realize. The 'new office' in our study was designed to encourage modes of movement that were energetic and penetrative, but also to foster consensual and authentic relationships.…”

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confidence: 74%

“…Our interest focuses specifically on these practices as constituted by the body within space. There is so far relatively little research on this nexus of organizational space and the gendered body (Tyler and Cohen, ; Wasserman and Frenkel, ). According to Butler, the body ‘matters’ because it is a ‘site of doing and being done to’ (Hancock and Tyler, , p. 520) as it becomes implicated in social processes, inscribed by norms and evaluated.…”

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Doing gender in the ‘new office’

Hirst¹,

Schwabenland²

2017

Gender Work & Organization

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This paper investigates how gender is performed in the context of an office setting designed to promote intensive, fluid networking. We draw on an ethnographically oriented study of the move of staff into a new office building constructed primarily from glass, and incorporating open plan offices, diverse collective areas and walking routes. Although the designers aimed to invoke changes in the behaviour of all staff, they conceptualized these changes in masculine terms. We therefore analyse the gender norms materialized by the workspaces of the ‘new office’ and how women responded to these. We suggest that the new office encourages an image of the ideal worker which brings together ways of acting and interacting that have been characterized as both masculine and feminine — active movement and spontaneous encounters, but also intensive face‐to‐face interaction and deep relationship‐building. Women are driven into this mode of working in an uncompromising, almost aggressive way, but a straightforward gender‐based dynamic does not emerge in their responses, with conventional gender characteristics being reshuffled and recombined.

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“…and combine Lefebvre with studies of material culture and particularly Merleau ) theorization of 'embodiment' in which the 'body' and the 'mind' are not dichotomized but entwined. Wasserman and Frenkel (2015) use Lefebvre's triad to explore the relations between organizational spatiality, gender and class exposing the role of space and its embodied enactment by women of various classes in constructing and reconstructing inequality regimes within organizations. also explore the interrelationship of embodiment of gender performativity and organizational spaces.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…The authors and studies are brought together in the hope that this selection will inspire and challenge organization scholars and practitioners across the world to further explore and develop the rich potential of Lefebvre's work for organization studies. Wasserman, V. and Frenkel, M. (2015). Spatial work in-between glass ceilings and glass work: Gender-class intersectionality and organizational aesthetics.…”

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Organisational Space and Beyond

Kingma¹,

Dale²,

Wasserman³

2018

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Through the focus on organizational space, using the reception and significance of the seminal work on the subject by sociologist Henri Lefebvre, this book demonstrates why and how Lefebvre's work can be used to inform and elaborate organizational studies, especially in view of the current interest in the "socio-material" dimension of organizations.As the "spatial turn" in organizational research exposed the importance of spatial design in inducing power and cultural relations, Lefebvre's perspective has become an inspiring, theoretical framework. However, Organizational Space and Beyond explores how Lefebvre's work could be of a much wider relevance, especially given his profound theoretical engagement with diverse schools of philosophical and sociological thought, including Nietzsche, Marx, Sartre and Foucault.This book brings together a range of authors that collectively develop a broader understanding of Lefebvre's relevance to organizational studies, including areas of management concern such as strategy and diversity studies, and ultimately draw on Lefebvre's work to rethink, reimagine and reshape scholarship in organizational studies. It will be of relevance to researchers, academics, students and organizational professionals in the fields of organization studies, management studies, cultural studies, architecture and sociology.

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Spatial Work in Between Glass Ceilings and Glass Walls: Gender-Class Intersectionality and Organizational Aesthetics

Cited by 96 publications

References 50 publications

Performing accountability in health research: A socio-spatial framework

Performing accountability in health research: A socio-spatial framework

Doing gender in the ‘new office’

Organisational Space and Beyond

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