12 The ‘Visible Hand’ of the State
Urbanization of Favelas as a Violent Abstraction of Space
Introduction
The spatial turn observed in the field of organization studies in the past decades led to an increasing production of research on space and organization that responds to calls made by ground-breaking works in the area (Baldry, 1999; Dale and Burrell, 2008; Kornberger and Clegg, 2003, 2004). The literature on space has been particularly insightful in tackling issues of organizational control (Dale, 2005; Hancock and Spicer, 2011; Hirst and Humphreys, 2013) and organizational boundaries (Fleming and Spicer, 2008; Maréchal, Linstead, and Munro, 2013; Munro and Jordan, 2013). However, extant work has focussed on interrogating ...
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