Symbolic Violence and the Crafting of Bodies
When: Thursday, July 7, 2022, 16:00–17:30 CEST
Where: TC.0.04 ---> WU interactive campus map
This sub-plenary will critically explore contemporary debates surrounding the implications of beauty and normative aesthetics
standards on contemporary work practices. The rise of normative and ‘global’ consensus of physical attractiveness has subsequently
been accorded individual, social, and institutional rewards within organizational domains. This increasingly leads to significant
forms of body work in the form of cosmetic surgery or ‘beautification’ procedures.
To interrogate this rising turn further and explore its implications for organization studies, this sub-plenary draws on symbolic
violence as a conceptual tool to understand how individuals are organized, subordinated, and dominated through their own “imperfect”
bodies. It will explore how ideas and images about the ideal body and facial features circulate globally, and how these are
also generated, received, and interpreted locally.
ORGANIZER:
Marie-Thérèse Claes
Professor & Head of Institute
WU – Vienna University of Economics and Business, Austria
ORGANIZER:
Andrea Romo Pérez
Assistant Professor
WU – Vienna University of Economics and Business, Austria
ORGANIZER:
Kathleen Riach
Professor
University of Glasgow, UK, & Monash University, Australia
Panelist:
Vijayta Doshi
Associate Professor
Indian Institute of Management Udaipur, India
Panelist:
Alvaro Jarrín
Associate Professor
College of the Holy Cross,
USA
Panelist:
Hyejung Park
South Korean activist
Seoul National University,
South Korea
Panelist:
Alison Pullen
Professor
Macquarie University,
Australia