Contents

List of Contributors

 1 Introduction: Henri Lefebvre and Organization Studies

SYTZE F. KINGMA, KAREN DALE, AND VARDA WASSERMAN

Part I
Theoretical Considerations—Process, Absence, Power, Institutions

 2 Politics, Embodiment, Everyday Life: Lefebvre and Spatial Organization

TIMON BEYES

 3 Rhythms of Historical Disposal: The Role of Absent Spaces in the Organizational Process of Space Planning

FABIO JAMES PETANI AND JEANNE MENGIS

 4 Lefebvre and Spacing Leadership: From Power Over to Power With

PERTTU SALOVAARA AND ARJA ROPO

 5 Between Institutional Theory and Lefebvre: Sensemaking, Logics and Enactment of, and in, Space

GILI S. DRORI AND BRIANA PREMINGER

Part II
Spaces of Organization—Everyday Work Life, Embodiment, Rhythms, Boundaries

 6 Managing Tensions in an English Cathedral—An Embodied Spatial Perspective

SARAH WARNES

 7 City Rhythms: Walking and Sensing Place Through Rhythmanalysis

LOUISE NASH

 8 Lunch Beat, Lefebvre and the Politics of Organizational Space

TUOMO PELTONEN AND PERTTU SALOVAARA

 9 Cake and the Open Plan Office: A Foodscape of Work Through a Lefebvrian Lens

HARRIET SHORTT

Part III
Organization of Spaces—Capitalism, Urban and State Relations

10 Exploring the Spatial Dynamics of the City: A Case Study in China

ZHONGYUAN ZHANG

11 Producing the Space of Democracy: Spatial Practices and Representations of Urban Space in Spain’s Transition to Democracy

INBAL OFER

12 The ‘Visible Hand’ of the State: Urbanization of Favelas as a Violent Abstraction of Space

DANIEL S. LACERDA

13 Future Directions: Henri Lefebvre and Spatial Organization

SYTZE F. KINGMA, KAREN DALE, AND VARDA WASSERMAN

Index