Nancy Harding: 6 books

Book cover of On Being At Work

On Being At Work

The Social Construction of the Employee

by Nancy Harding
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2013

Inspired by the work of the philosopher Judith Butler, influenced by Marx’s theory of alienation and intrigued by theories of death, this book develops an anti-methodological approach to studying working lives. Distinctions are drawn between labour (the tasks we do in our jobs) and work (self-making...
Book cover of Gender and the Organization

Gender and the Organization

Women at Work in the 21st Century

by Nancy Harding, Marianna Fotaki
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2017

Discussions of feminism and gender in organizations and management studies, have, with some notable exceptions, become stuck in something of a time-warp. This lies in stark contrast to the developments in the fields of feminism and gender theory more generally. Management and organization studies...
Book cover of The Social Construction of Management
by Nancy Harding
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2004

**What is management and how do the people who become managers take on a managerial identity? How does text inform the manager's identity?** From cultural studies we understand that the relationship between text and reader is not passive but that each one works upon the other, and that text...
Book cover of This Is Not A Border

This Is Not A Border

Reportage & Reflection from the Palestine Festival of Literature

by J.M. Coetzee, Michael Ondaatje, Alice Walker
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2017

Writers from Alice Walker to Michael Ondaatje to Claire Messud share their thoughts on one of the most vital gatherings of writers and readers in the world. The Palestine Festival of Literature was established in 2008 by authors Ahdaf Soueif, Brigid Keenan, Victoria Brittain and Omar Robert...
Book cover of The Philosophical I

The Philosophical I

Personal Reflections on Life in Philosophy

by Nicholas Rescher, Linda Martín Alcoff, Lorraine Code
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2002

Philosophy is shaped by life and life is shaped by philosophy. This is reflected in The Philosophical I, a collection of 16 autobiographical essays by prominent philosophers. Candid and philosophically insightful, these personal narratives critically call into question the belief that philosophy should...
Book cover of The Handbook of Science and Technology Studies
by John Law, Kalpana Shankar, David Hakken
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2016

The fourth edition of an authoritative overview, with all new chapters that capture the state of the art in a rapidly growing field. Science and Technology Studies (STS) is a flourishing interdisciplinary field that examines the transformative power of science and technology to arrange and...
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