In-corporations: Food, Bodies and Organizations
- 29 June 2002
- journal article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Body & Society
- Vol. 8 (2), 1-20
- https://doi.org/10.1177/1357034x02008002001
Abstract
In this article I draw on an approach - Actor Network Theory - which is well developed within the sociology of science and technology. However, rather than focusing on technical objects in the workplace, I examine food and drink as non-human entities which build, maintain and stabilize links between diverse actants. Using five case study examples I consider what happens when people come together at work around food, and the specific sets of relations between people, activity and organizations that result from this engagement. In doing so I focus on some of the processes through which working bodies are in-corporated into organizational life through emerging food practices; and highlight some of the processes through which working bodies are reconstituted as organizational food practices are in-corporated into the bodies of employees.Keywords
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