Reframing Difference in Organizational Communication Studies : Research, Pedagogy, and Practice

by Dennis K. Mumby

• ISBN13: 9781412970082
• ISBN10: 1412970083
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-07-28
• Publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc

Summary

Organizing Difference explores difference (the complex intersections of discourses of gender, race, class, sexuality, and other markers of difference) as a communicative phenomenon. All of the scholars in this volume explore difference from a variety of perspectives, each of which systematically looks at the relationships among communication, organizing, and difference.

Table of Contents

Organizing Difference: An Introduction

Theorizing Difference and Organization

Knowing Work through the Communication of Difference: A Revised Agenda for Difference Studies

Intersecting Difference: A Dialectical Perspective

Theorizing Difference from Transnational Feminisms

Leadership Discourses of Difference: Executive Coaching and the Alpha Male Syndrome

Teaching Difference and Organizing

Critical Communication Pedagogy as a Framework for Teaching Difference and Organizing

But Society is Beyond ___ism" (?): Teaching how Differences are "Organized" via Institutional Privilege <-->Oppression

Teaching Difference as Institutional and Making it Personal: Moving Among Personal, Interpersonal, and Institutional Constructions of Difference

Difference and cultural identities in Aotearoa/New Zealand: Pedagogical, theoretical and pragmatic implications of the Josie Bullock case

Applying Difference to Organizational Change

Different Ways of Talking about Intervention Goals

Intersecting Differences: Organizing [Ourselves] for Social Justice Research with People in Vulnerable Communities

Problematizing Political Economy Differences and their Respective Work-Life Policy Constructions

The Worlding of Possibilities in a Collaborative Art Studio: Organizing Embodied Differences with Aesthetic and Dialogic Sensibilities

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