ABSTRACT

Exploring identity as a contemporary concern in everyday life and in the social sciences, this book focuses on how ideas about identity can be applied to organization and management studies.

The contributors, all respected authorities in the field, use and develop recent philosophical thought on the nature of identity, and question the key social divisions of gender, class and nation. Bringing approaches from contemporary philosophy into the area of organization theory, this book critically assesses their relevance and impact in a way which interrupts identity as a notion.

chapter 1|17 pages

Introduction

part |2 pages

Part I Confronting identity: selves and others

chapter 2|20 pages

Now where was I?

chapter 3|15 pages

Theorizing narrative identity

chapter 4|22 pages

Self and other in everyday existence

chapter 5|17 pages

Living a story and storying a life

part |2 pages

PART II Performing identities: selves for others

part |2 pages

PART III After identity…?: selves in question

chapter 10|21 pages

Beyond happy families

chapter 11|19 pages

Casting the other to the ends of the Earth

chapter 12|19 pages

Making global subjects

chapter 13|28 pages

Fluid identities and ungendering the future

chapter 14|8 pages

Identity aesthetics