Shape-Shifting Capital: Spiritual Management, Critical Theory, and the Ethnographic Project
Autor George Gonzálezen Limba Engleză Hardback – 20 mai 2015
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780739180853
ISBN-10: 0739180851
Pagini: 412
Ilustrații: 7 BW Illustrations
Dimensiuni: 157 x 234 x 32 mm
Greutate: 0.71 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Lexington Books
Locul publicării:New York, United States
ISBN-10: 0739180851
Pagini: 412
Ilustrații: 7 BW Illustrations
Dimensiuni: 157 x 234 x 32 mm
Greutate: 0.71 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Lexington Books
Locul publicării:New York, United States
Cuprins
Introduction
Chapter 1: Seeing Things Whole
Chapter 2: Living Cosmologies: Dancing on a Wheel
Chapter 3: Practices of Materiality and Spirituality Among Landry's Workers
Chapter 4: The Shape-Shifting Metaphorical Body of Capital
Chapter 5: Towards a Critical Ethnography of Shape-Shifting Capital
Conclusion
Epilogue
Chapter 1: Seeing Things Whole
Chapter 2: Living Cosmologies: Dancing on a Wheel
Chapter 3: Practices of Materiality and Spirituality Among Landry's Workers
Chapter 4: The Shape-Shifting Metaphorical Body of Capital
Chapter 5: Towards a Critical Ethnography of Shape-Shifting Capital
Conclusion
Epilogue
Recenzii
This intellectually capacious book deals with a pervasive feature of neoliberalism that has been overlooked until fairly recently. . . .This wonderful . . . book is up to the task of addressing this most pressing of questions.
Ultimately this is an important book and a timely addition to the field. It is accessible for the majority of readers, but intended for academics and postgraduate students. Undergraduates may struggle with the theoretical sections, although there is certainly scope for their inclusion on courses focused on theory and methods, religion and postmodernity, secular religion, and religion in America. Postgraduate courses on religion and society should give serious consideration to including this text on their syllabus.
Shape-Shifting Capital is a landmark work in the relatively new field of workplace spirituality. Using ethnographic and phenomenological methods, George González shows that human existence cannot be reduced to sui generis categories such as religion or reason, the spiritual or the corporate. His point of departure is, rather, the vexed and complex ways in which the struggle for a livelihood plays out in workaday and quotidian settings. This brilliant book offers exciting new horizons for an 'existential archeology' of our times, for the study of religion in everyday life, and for the critique of capitalism in a digital age.
González's broad erudition and eye for ethnographic detail make this a welcome addition to the growing field of 'workplace spirituality.' With a thorough, perceptive grounding in the intellectual history of organizational theory, Shape-Shifting Capital offers readers a sophisticated yet utterly accessible road map to the core issues of religion at work.
Ultimately this is an important book and a timely addition to the field. It is accessible for the majority of readers, but intended for academics and postgraduate students. Undergraduates may struggle with the theoretical sections, although there is certainly scope for their inclusion on courses focused on theory and methods, religion and postmodernity, secular religion, and religion in America. Postgraduate courses on religion and society should give serious consideration to including this text on their syllabus.
Shape-Shifting Capital is a landmark work in the relatively new field of workplace spirituality. Using ethnographic and phenomenological methods, George González shows that human existence cannot be reduced to sui generis categories such as religion or reason, the spiritual or the corporate. His point of departure is, rather, the vexed and complex ways in which the struggle for a livelihood plays out in workaday and quotidian settings. This brilliant book offers exciting new horizons for an 'existential archeology' of our times, for the study of religion in everyday life, and for the critique of capitalism in a digital age.
González's broad erudition and eye for ethnographic detail make this a welcome addition to the growing field of 'workplace spirituality.' With a thorough, perceptive grounding in the intellectual history of organizational theory, Shape-Shifting Capital offers readers a sophisticated yet utterly accessible road map to the core issues of religion at work.