Sub-theme 04: (SWG) Diversity, Embodiment and Affect
Convenors:
Marieke van den Brink, Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands
Alison Pullen, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia
Marianna Fotaki, Warwick University, UK
Session I: Thursday, July 07, 11:00 to 12:30, D1
Introduction Diversity, Embodiment and Affect
Chair: Marianna Fotaki
Sine Nørholm Just and Robyn Remke
Nurturing bodies – Exploring discourses of parental leave as communicative practices of affective embodiment
Discussant(s)Discussant(s): Traunsteinder & Bendl
Bärbel S. Traunsteiner and Regine Bendl
Bounded complexity of bodily realities – The (dis)embodiment of elderly lesbians
Discussant(s)Discussant(s): Norholm Just & Remke
Session II: Thursday, July 07, 14:00 to 15:30, D1
Difference and Bodies
Chair: Alison Pullen
Peter Ghin
The sick body: Leadership and the experience of physical illness
Discussant(s)Discussant(s): Muhr & Kirkegard
Sara Louise Muhr and Line Kirkegaard
Uniform bodies or bodied uniforms: An affect analysis of body possibilities in 4 military narratives
Discussant(s)Discussant(s): Dobush
Laura Dobusch
Organized dis-/ability? On the relationship between embodiment, sociomateriality and diversity research
Discussant(s)Discussant(s): Ghin
Session III: Thursday, July 07, 16:00 to 17:30, D1
Gender Inequality
Chair: Marieke van den Brink
David B. Balkin, Len J. Treviño and Luis Gomez-Mejia
Understanding how gender bias affects faculty promotions in business schools
Discussant(s)Discussant(s): Poorhosseinzadeh, Broadbent & Strachan
Mahan Poorhosseinzadeh, Kaye Broadbent and Glenda Strachan
Disembodied senior managers: The perspective of male senior managers in an Australian Hospitality organisation
Discussant(s)Discussant(s): Bleijenbergh, Cacace, Falcinielli, Del Giogio & Leenders
Inge Bleijenbergh, Marina Cacace, Daniela Falcinelli, Elena Del Giorgio, Joke Leenders and Giovanna Declich
Creating your own space or becoming a partner. The role of affect in strategies of women's networks to foster transformative
change
Discussant(s)Discussant(s): Balkin, Trevino & Gomez-Mejia
Session IV: Friday, July 08, 09:00 to 10:30, D1
Negative affects
Chair: Marianna Fotaki
Justine Grønbæk Pors
"It sends a cold shiver down my spine." Encountering the violence and hope of ordinary efforts to implement corporate strategies
Discussant(s)Discussant(s): White & Finniear
Paul White and Jocelyn Finniear
The shaming effects of discretionary management: Rethinking the value(s) of accessing flexible work
Discussant(s)Discussant(s): Valenzuela
Francisco Valenzuela
An inconsolable, engendered interpretation of public servant identity with Lacan
Discussant(s)Discussant(s): Grønbæk Pors
Session V: Friday, July 08, 14:00 to 15:30, D1
Women, Identity and Power
Chair: Alison Pullen
Kristin S. Williams and Albert Mills
Frances Perkins: The ghost in cabinet
Discussant(s)Discussant(s): Schilling
Rikard Sandberg, Martin Löwstedt, Christine Räisänen and Ani Raiden
The site manager as an omnious being: Exploring the ‘body’ in embodiment of organizational spaces
Discussant(s)Discussant(s): Williams & Mills
Annika Schilling
Problematizing the female professional body: Contestation of femininity and professionalism on a blog for female professionals
Discussant(s)Discussant(s): Sandberg, Raisanen & Raiden
Session VI: Saturday, July 09, 09:00 to 10:30, D1
Diversity
Chair: Marieke van den Brink
Dimitria Groutsis and Juanita Sherwood
Valuing, Respecting and Acknowledging Difference: Overcoming Assimilation through Cultural Competence
Discussant(s)Discussant(s): Barbosa
Iris Barbosa
Hard times, less compassion? Distinct perspectives towards distinct minorities in the Portuguese organizational context
Discussant(s)Discussant(s): Groutsis & Sherwood
Session VII: Saturday, July 09, 11:00 to 12:30, D1
Affect and Ethics
Chair: Marianna Fotaki
Emmanouela Mandalaki
Dance me to my other self: Creating ethical spaces through inter-corporeal gendered interactions
Discussant(s)Discussant(s): Pullen
Embodying diversity
research: Thinking with Jean-Luc Nancy
Discussant(s)Discussant(s): Mandalaki