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An engaging contribution to the increasing body of knowledge about
gender and organizations, Gender, Culture and Organizational Change
examines gender-based inequality in organizations and considers how
sexual and social relations between women and men based on
sexuality, power and control determine the cultures, structures and
practices of organization and the experiences of men and women
working in them. Gender, Culture and Organizational Change
represents a decade of experience of managing change and
implementing theory in public sector organizations during a period
of major social, political and economic transition and analyses the
progress that has been made. It expands to make wider connections
with women and trade unions in Europe and management development
for women in the "developing" countries of Africa and Asia. It will
be valuable reading for students in social policy, gender studies
and sociology and for professionals with an interest in
understanding the dynamics of the workplace.
An engaging contribution to the increasing body of knowledge about gender and organizations, Gender, Culture and Organizational Change examines gender-based inequality in organizations and considers how sexual and social relations between women and men based on sexuality, power and control determine the cultures, structures and practices of organization and the experiences of men and women working in them. Gender, Culture and Organizational Change represents a decade of experience of managing change and implementing theory in public sector organizations during a period of major social, political and economic transition and analyses the progress that has been made. It expands to make wider connections with women and trade unions in Europe and management development for women in the "developing" countries of Africa and Asia. It will be valuable reading for students in social policy, gender studies and sociology and for professionals with an interest in understanding the dynamics of the workplace. eBook available with sample pages: 0203427963
This book rethinks the public - along with public communication and
public action - in a globalizing and mediated world. Web-based
interactions, community empowerment initiatives, participation
experiments, transnational struggles, and new ways of understanding
and occupying public space offer a range of promising speculations
about the renewal of publics and 'publicness.' The book offers a
rich set of methodological resources on which researchers can draw,
demonstrating the need to interrogate the boundaries between
theory, research, and politics. It develops novel theoretical
perspectives for investigating the formation of publics, using four
themes as key processes to rethinking how publics are brought into
being and how to develop research agendas into their formation.
This book examines what value, if any, the state has for the
pursuit of progressive politics; and how it might need to be
reimagined and remade to deliver transformative change. Is it
possible to reimagine the state in ways that open up projects of
political transformation? This interdisciplinary collection
provides alternative perspectives to the 'antistatism' of much
critical writing and contemporary political movement activism.
Contributors explore ways of reimagining the state that attend
critically to the capitalist, neoliberal, gendered and racist
conditions of contemporary polities, yet seek to hold onto the
state in the process. Drawing on postcolonial, poststructuralist,
feminist, queer, Marxist and anarchist thinking, they consider how
states might be reread and reclaimed for radical politics. At the
heart of this book is state plasticity - the capacity of the state
conceptually and materially to take different forms. This
plasticity is central to transformational thinking and practice,
and to the conditions and labour that allow it to take place. But
what can reimagining do; and what difficulties does it confront?
This book will appeal to academics and research students concerned
with critical and transformative approaches to state theory,
particularly in governance studies, politics and political theory,
socio-legal studies, international relations, geography,
gender/sexuality, cultural studies and anthropology.
Remaking governance focuses on the dynamics of change as new
strategies - active citizenship, public participation, partnership
working, consumerism - encounter existing institutions. It explores
different sites and practices of governing, from the remaking of
Europe to the increasing focus on 'community' and 'personhood' in
governing social life. The authors critically engage with existing
theory across political science, social policy, sociology and
public administration and management to explore how 'the social' is
constituted through governance practices. This includes the ways in
which the spaces and territories of governing are remade and the
peoples constituted; how the public domain is re-imagined and new
forms of state-citizen relationships fostered and how the remaking
of governance shapes our understanding of politics, changing the
ways in which citizens engage with political power and the selves
they bring to that engagement. Remaking governance is essential
reading for academics and students across a range of social science
disciplines, and of interest to those engaged in policy evaluation
and reform.
This book examines what value, if any, the state has for the
pursuit of progressive politics; and how it might need to be
reimagined and remade to deliver transformative change. Is it
possible to reimagine the state in ways that open up projects of
political transformation? This interdisciplinary collection
provides alternative perspectives to the 'antistatism' of much
critical writing and contemporary political movement activism.
Contributors explore ways of reimagining the state that attend
critically to the capitalist, neoliberal, gendered and racist
conditions of contemporary polities, yet seek to hold onto the
state in the process. Drawing on postcolonial, poststructuralist,
feminist, queer, Marxist and anarchist thinking, they consider how
states might be reread and reclaimed for radical politics. At the
heart of this book is state plasticity - the capacity of the state
conceptually and materially to take different forms. This
plasticity is central to transformational thinking and practice,
and to the conditions and labour that allow it to take place. But
what can reimagining do; and what difficulties does it confront?
This book will appeal to academics and research students concerned
with critical and transformative approaches to state theory,
particularly in governance studies, politics and political theory,
socio-legal studies, international relations, geography,
gender/sexuality, cultural studies and anthropology.
There is an urgent need to rethink relationships between systems of
government and those who are 'governed'. This book explores ways of
rethinking those relationships by bringing communities normally
excluded from decision-making to centre stage to experiment with
new methods of regulating for engagement. Using original,
co-produced research, it innovatively shows how we can better use a
'bottom-up' approach to design regulatory regimes that recognise
the capabilities of communities at the margins and powerfully
support the knowledge, passions and creativity of citizens. The
authors provide essential guidance for all those working on
co-produced research to make impactful change.
There is an urgent need to rethink relationships between systems of
government and those who are 'governed'. This book explores ways of
rethinking those relationships by bringing communities normally
excluded from decision-making to centre stage to experiment with
new methods of regulating for engagement. Using original,
co-produced research, it innovatively shows how we can better use a
'bottom-up' approach to design regulatory regimes that recognise
the capabilities of communities at the margins and powerfully
support the knowledge, passions and creativity of citizens. The
authors provide essential guidance for all those working on
co-produced research to make impactful change.
Public participation is central to a wide range of current public
policies - not only in the UK, but elsewhere in the developed and
the developing world. There are substantial aspirations for what
enhanced participation can achieve. This book offers a critical
examination of both the discourse and practice of participation in
order to understand the significance of this explosion in
participatory forums, and the extent to which such practices
represent a fundamental change in governance. Based on 17 case
studies across a range of policy areas in two English cities, the
authors address key issues such as: the way in which notions of the
public are constructed; the motivation of participants; how the
interests and identities of officials and citizens are negotiated
within forums; and the ways in which institutions enable and
constrain the development of participation initiatives. Much of the
literature on public participation is highly normative. This book
draws from detailed empirical work, theories of governance, of
deliberative democracy and social movements to offer a nuanced
account of the dynamics of participation and to suggest why
experiences of this can be frustrating as well as transformative.
This book will be essential reading for students of public and
social policy and offers important insights for those directly
engaged in developing participation initiatives across the public
sector
Remaking governance focuses on the dynamics of change as new
strategies - active citizenship, public participation, partnership
working, consumerism - encounter existing institutions. It explores
different sites and practices of governing, from the remaking of
Europe to the increasing focus on 'community' and 'personhood' in
governing social life. The authors critically engage with existing
theory across political science, social policy, sociology and
public administration and management to explore how 'the social' is
constituted through governance practices. This includes the ways in
which the spaces and territories of governing are remade and the
peoples constituted; how the public domain is re-imagined and new
forms of state-citizen relationships fostered and how the remaking
of governance shapes our understanding of politics, changing the
ways in which citizens engage with political power and the selves
they bring to that engagement. Remaking governance is essential
reading for academics and students across a range of social science
disciplines, and of interest to those engaged in policy evaluation
and reform.
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