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In-corporations: Food, Bodies and Organizations

In this article I draw on an approach - Actor Network Theory - which is well developed within the sociology of science and technology. However, rather than focusing on technical objects in the workplace, I examine food and drink as non-human entities which build, maintain and stabilize links between diverse actants. Using five case study examples I consider what happens when people come together at work around food, and the specific sets of relations between people, activity and organizations that result from this engagement. In doing so I focus on some of the processes through which working bodies are in-corporated into organizational life through emerging food practices; and highlight some of the processes through which working bodies are reconstituted as organizational food practices are in-corporated into the bodies of employees.

Key Words: case studies • consumption • identities • practices • workplace

Body & Society, Vol. 8, No. 2, 1-20 (2002)
DOI: 10.1177/1357034X02008002001


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