1st Edition
Organisational Space and Beyond The Significance of Henri Lefebvre for Organisation Studies
1. Introduction: The Significance of Henri Lefebvre for Organizational Studies
Part 1: Lefebvrian Perspectives
2. Lefebvre as a Young Marxist: Rethinking the Triad in the Study of Organizational Space
3. Making Space, Making Time: Organizations and Social Scaling
4. Understanding Power Dynamics and Surveillance through Lefebvre's Conceptualisation of Space
5. Everyday’s Yesterday: Space and the Quotidian in the Vintage Marketplace
Part 2: Everyday Practices
6. Humour as Moments: Lefebvre’s Social Space and Humour
7. The Embodied Working Space of an English Cathedral
8. The Strategic Logic of Space: Using Lefebvre’s Rhythmanalysis to Understand Organisation Strategies
9. The Topography of Masculinity
10. Cake, Social Relations and the Open-plan Office
Part 3: The Politics of Space
11. Facing the Camp: Lefebvre, Refugee Settlements and the Politics of Organization
12. Producing the Space of Democracy: Spatial Practices and Representations of Urban Space in Spain's Transition to Democracy
13. The Production of Urban Space in the Age of Mass Consumerism: Revisiting Lefebvre and Spatialised Ideology
14. The Role of Institutional Actors in Constructing Space
15. The Organizational Process through which we Produce, Consume and Dispose of Space over Time
Biography
Karen Dale is a Senior Lecturer and Director of Teaching in the Department of Organization, Work and Technology at Lancaster University, UK.
Sytze Kingma is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Organization Sciences at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands.
Varda Wasserman is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Management and Economics at the Open University of Israel, Israel.
"This is an exciting and innovative collection, opening up new avenues of research and demonstrating the continuing value of Lefevbre’s work for the study of organisations and everyday organisational life. This book takes us from vintage marketplaces to refugee settlements, finding innovative insights and interesting ways to challenge our preconceived notions of social space and organisations." –Oliver Mallett, Newcastle University, UK
"Organizational Space and Beyond represents a real service to our community. The editors have been motivated by a contagious enthusiasm with a theorist whose ideas deserve far wider recognition and appreciation. This is a text Lefebvre would want to see." –Kevin Morrell, University of Warwick, UK
