Literature Review Structure
1) Biosocial theoretical framework
2a) Neoliberal work & context of capitalism
Remember there will always be opponents to your choice in theory - the task is to pick one thing and justify your choice
The goal here is to introduce the theoretical backdrop of the entire thesis and justify the interdisciplinary approach
Porosity & dissolved boundaries (Latour/Haraway etc)
New materialities
Embodiment??
The goal here is to illustrate how neoliberal work environments are toxic, especially to women
(2b) Work stress & health literature
Lit on Anthropolgy of economics & capitalism
Features of Neoliberal working
Introduce/history of concept
Context of Capitalism in UK (Britannia Unchained)
3) Bodies at work
Women at work - bureacracy, perfectionism, audit culture etc / Federrici / Marxist feminism
My original contribution is that capitalist work makes women inflammed AND re: work stress - my original contribution is that both these areas are currently limited to deterministic frameworks i.e. inflammation as a result of female biology / women's experience of work only in relation to dual responsibility of family
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The goal here is to show that workplaces can be seen as biosocial environments which 'get under the skin'
TIme & embedeness - between binaries that illness takes place: how does alientation in the marxist sense affect female workers and impact their physiology?
Embodiment? Phenomenology and senses / Air, atmospheres & breath
Spatial imaginaries
Workplace ecologies
My original contribution is the conception of work is a critical geography that exists both as an interactive & imaginal realm
Epi literature on work stress and health - combine with 4?
The goal here is to describe what has already been done around work/stress/health & identify the gaps I will fill
Work stress and health
Gender and work
My original contribution is that both these areas are currently limited to deterministic frameworks i.e. inflammation as a result of female biology / women's experience of work only in relation to dual responsibility of family
Gender and inflammation
I think this potential alternative structure works better: 1, 3, 2a, 2b
The Neoliberal Subject ! Indvidualism boardering on narcicissm 'the writer of your own biography'/ self- managing entrepreneurial neoliberal subjects (Ong 2006; Foucault 2008; Urciuoli 2010); Martin 'Me Inc'.
Bodies & Power - Foucault, Bourdieu etc
Ethnographies of work / anthropological literature