ABSTRACT
This chapter is concerned with the preconditions attached to ‘the production and maintenance of legible humanity’, and with the work that goes into sustaining subjective coherence, and securing recognition for that coherence. Judith Butler’s understanding of ‘undoing’ is particularly influenced by what is arguably one of the most radical propositions in her writing, namely her insistence that if becoming a subject is a process of doing then, as noted earlier, it is always also a process of undoing. Research on lived experiences of ‘organizational undoing’ indicate the ways in which attributing recognition to certain forms of subjectivity while disavowing others constitutes a significant, but often overlooked, process of organization. Taking theoretical and conceptual cues from Butler, exploring un/doing gender as a series of social and discursive practices has been a sustained interest of organizational research.
