This paper revisits Kanter's (1977) seminal work Men and Women of the Corporation,
rereading her account of numerical advantage and disadvantage through a poststructuralist …

The aim of this article is to review a selection of the literature on identity at work in
Management and Organization Studies (MOS) in order to raise critical questions concerning …

For many post-graduate students undertaking a research project for the first time is a
daunting prospect. Gaining the knowledge and skills needed to do research typically has to …

The power of music to influence mood, create scenes, routines and occasions is widely
recognised and this is reflected in a strand of social theory from Plato to Adorno that portrays …

This book is intended to be a theoretical contribution to the sociology of the body and the
rapidly expanding field of 'body studies'. In what follows I examine the changing status of the …

After years of treating the human body in a disembodied manner or ignoring it altogether, the
body has become a thriving topic in a number of fields and disciplines across the social …

The question of music's social effects has a venerable tradition within social theory but has
rarely been explored through empirical and ethnographic work. Drawing on 52 depth …

The changed meaning of the 'body shop', from a section of a car factory–or a garage
knocking wrecks back into shape–to The Body Shop, a chain of stores selling products to …

This article develops the conceptualization and analysis of aesthetic labour in two parts. The
first part focuses on conceptualizing aesthetic labour. We critically revisit the emotional …

Most social geography undergraduate textbooks are structured around different social
categories, splintering the discussion of gender, class, race and increasingly now sexuality …