ABSTRACT
This chapter explores how corporeal ethics practically manifests in organizations through political action. It is argued that the openness of corporeal generosity demands that ethics is always an unfinished project that cannot rely upon or be firmly lodged within administrative arrangements. Corporeal ethics is present in organizations through the bodies of people striving towards an openness to the other that does not seek final refuge in managerially imposed organizational schemes, be they exploitative or well meaning. The chapter concentrates on resistance as a lived response to demand of ethics, including the ways that dominant approaches to organizational ethics can inadvertently stymie this resistance. The chapter develops the idea of an ‘ethico-politics of resistance’ that disrupts the taken-for-granted means through which moral judgement is imposed in and by organizations. This is a politics dedicated to liberating difference by resisting exercises of power and authority that would seek the domination of others as it arises, for example, in relation to discrimination and inequality as they concern sex, gender, heterosexism, class, race, and nation (as well as the relations between them).
