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Karen Dale
Researcher at Lancaster University
Publications - 32
Citations - 1385
Karen Dale is an academic researcher from Lancaster University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Politics & Organizational studies. The author has an hindex of 17, co-authored 31 publications receiving 1261 citations. Previous affiliations of Karen Dale include University of Warwick & University of Leicester.
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Building a Social Materiality: Spatial and Embodied Politics in Organizational Control
TL;DR: In this paper, a conceptualization of social materiality is developed whereby social processes and structures and material process and structures are seen as mutually enacting, and the relevance of "materiality" to understanding changing modes of control in organizational life is explored.
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The Spaces of Organisation and the Organisation of Space: Power, Identity and Materiality at Work
Karen Dale,Gibson Burrell +1 more
TL;DR: The Spaces of Organisation and the Organisation of Space as mentioned in this paper is a political economy of Organised Space Boundary Crossings: Reproducing Organized Space and Building a Social Materiality: Spatial and Embodied Politics in Organisation Alternative Spaces of Organization?
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Anatomising Embodiment and Organisation Theory
TL;DR: Introduction: Body Politics The Body and Organisation Studies Written on the Body: Social Theory and the Body Bodily Knowledge: An Approach to Embodied Subjectivity
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Ethics and entangled embodiment: : Bodies–materialities–organization
Karen Dale,Yvonne Latham +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue for an approach to embodiment which recognises its inextricable relationship with multiple materialities, and argue that recognition of this interconnectedness and entanglement is a necessary ethical and political position from which the drawing of boundaries and creation of separations that are inherent in social organizing can be understood and which contribute to the denigration, discrimination and dismissal of particular forms of embodiment, including those of non-human Others.
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Being occupied: : An embodied re-reading of organizational wellness
Karen Dale,Gibson Burrell +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that organizational wellness operates as a rhetorical device which masks contradictory power relations and serves to hide differential occupational effects and opportunities for workers, and obscures the relationship between wellness and its necessary Other, unwellness.