Organizing Corporeal Ethics: A Research Overview

Corporeal ethics is an emergent, embodied, and affective experience with others that precedes and exceeds rational schemes to regulate it. It is based on embodied affect and is practical in ethico-political acts of positive resistance and networked solidarity. It can challenge self-interested organizational power and privilege and strive for equality and justice.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 84 pages
Publication date: 29 January 2024
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

This comprehensive book delves into the profound realm of corporeal ethics, shedding light on its essence and practical application within organized life. Rooted in an emergent, embodied, and affective experience with others, corporeal ethics transcends the confines of rational schemes aimed at regulating it. Authors Pullen and Rhodes unveil the fundamental basis of corporeal ethics in embodied affect, while also demonstrating its practical manifestation through ethico-political acts of positive resistance and networked solidarity. By approaching ethics in this holistic manner, the book directs our attention to the ethical dimensions of human conduct and interactions within the context of dominant organizational power relations. Pullen and Rhodes outline the strategies through which ethically grounded resistance and critique can effectively challenge self-interested organizational power and privilege. They also account for how corporeal ethics serves as a catalyst for destabilizing practices that perpetuate discrimination, oppression, and inequality. This book is an invaluable resource for students, scholars, and citizens seeking to explore the radical possibilities of how political actions rooted in corporeal ethics can strive for equality and justice.

Weight: 138g
Dimension: 215 x 138 x 12 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781032169552