Pretty Pants and Office Pants: Making Home, Identity and Belonging in a Workplace

摘要: This chapter is based on an ongoing ethnography of a British university campus. The principal research focus rethinking and diversifying notions openness, space organisation, in terms how formal informal social spaces make, made by organisational culture. Themes homely/personal intimacies emerged during the study. Production consumption are not separate practices, nor these monolithic helpful understanding processual, contingent character relations interactions between people things. ways which shape work, place, time around them using varieties materials to maintain perform identities probably infinite — since they can be work moment. Rather than provide summary, therefore, offers four accounts making home, identity intimacy at work. And as include field notes, lists, photographs, film, drawings, audio recordings (and later transcriptions) interviews offices, walks ‘smokers’ corner’, also reflects variations, rather following uniform pattern.