Gender, bodies and identities in organization: Postcolonial critiques

Critical perspectives on embodiment in organizations acknowledges that the body is a site, object and subject of the labor force, crossing and spanning the material, social, cultural, and natural world (Dale, 2005; Monaghan, 2002; Williams & Bendelow, 1998). Binary distinctions between body and mind are challenged (Pullen & Knights, 2007), placing the lived experience as locus of analysis (Kringen & Novich, 2018; Williams & Bendelow, 1998). Importantly, examining people's lived experiences allow us to explain and understand inequalities and freedoms, as these are lived through and bounded by bodies, both within and outside the organization (Fotaki & Pullen, 2019). Elaborating on this point, Kringen and Novich (2018, pp. 198–199) note: