Item 1:

ARCIO – Centre for Action Research and Critical Inquiry in Organizations Special Event

Professor Barbara Czarniawska at ARCIO
31 October 2013
Fiction, Narrative and Organizing

We are delighted, in collaboration with Bristol Business School, UWE, to welcome Professor Czarniawska from the University of Gothenberg to ARCIO. The event will have two parts. Professor Czarniawska will present her talk, ‘Distant Readings: Comparative organization studies through fiction’ at 3.00- 5.00 pm in the Boardroom, 1 Priory Road.
Professor Czarniawska is an internationally renowned writer on narratology and organization. Her published work on the subject includes topics such as narratology and organizational identity, using novels to teach manangement, and organization theory as a literary genre.
In preparation for the lecture, Dr Sue Porter and Dr Ann Rippin (ARCIO) will lead a workshop on ‘Organization and Community: Writing as Inquiry’ from 9.00-1.30 in the Boardroom, 1 Priory Road. The workshop will use a simple exercise to explore participants’ experiences of working in organization and will include an introduction to embodied and performative writing.
It is possible to attend either or both of the events. The writing workshop in the morning is limited to 20 people. Please email Ann.Rippin@bristol.ac.uk if you would like to attend the workshop and Val.Harvey@bristol.ac.uk if you would like to attend the lecture.

This event is organized as part of ARCIO’s on-going commitment to the use of narrative methodology in Organization Studies, and experimental research methods such as writing as inquiry.


Item 2:

ARCIO will be running a day of exciting workshops on the theme of Creative Engagements for Sustainability: Art, Writing and Imagination.
A poetry writing workshop in the morning will be led by renowned eco-poet Susan Richardson where participants can experience for themselves the transformative power of poetry. In the afternoon, Susan will be joined by artist-in-residence at the Cabot Institute, Neville Gabie, and Professor Emeritus Peter Reason to discuss how creative engagements can mobilise the changes needed to live more sustainable lives.
For more information see: http://www.bristol.ac.uk/efm/events/2013/164.html or email Mary.Phillips@bristol.ac.uk to book your place on either or both workshops.


Item 3:

LAEMOS 2014, Havana, Cuba, 2-5 April

CALL FOR PAPERS – SUBTHEME 02: Alternatives to corruption and anti-corruption? Rethinking theory, practice, and context.

Subtheme Conveners:
Eric Breit (Work Research Institute, Norway), Thomas Taro Lennerfors (Uppsala University, Sweden) & Daniel Jardim Pardini (Fumec University, Belo Horizonte, Brazil)

Contact:
lennerfors@gmail.com

The phenomenon of corruption is often described as a “cancer”, “virus”, or an “evil” that is haunting contemporary private, public, and third sector organizations. Corruption is by many regarded as an obstacle, or perhaps the obstacle, to achieving social, economic and ecological balance. Such views are not restricted to specific national, regional or organizational settings, but are by and large prevalent across the far corners of the globe.
There is also widespread agreement across the globe that corruption has to be fought and, ideally, eradicated, among others by using a ‘‘wide range of strategies, networked in an integrated fashion over a long period of time’’. It is not uncommon to hear of a global “war” that is waged on corruption. This war includes a range of actors, not only on the international level but also on national and local levels.
In recent years, the literature on corruption and anti-corruption has flourished, and it now includes important contributions from a range of disciplines. However, most, if not all, of the focus seems to be rooted in Western contexts and perspectives. For instance, the global anti-corruption movement has been critiqued for its neoliberal, Western, and colonialist drive towards positing corruption as an attribute of the Other of Western civilization. This has marginalized non-Western perspectives, and hindered fruitful international dialogue.
As an attempt to mitigate this marginalization, the overall aims of the subtheme is, firstly, to develop alternative ways of theorizing, researching and fighting corruption, and secondly, to generate scholarly debate between different research communities.
We invite papers that develop alternative theorizations of corruption and anti-corruption. Can there be alternative understandings of corruption arising by seriously taking a standpoint in a particular local context, such as that of Europe or Latin America? Moreover, how can local theorizations and literatures on corruption and anti-corruption problematize the universally homogeneous understanding of corruption, and maybe create a hybridization of our understandings? And, how can a cross-disciplinary debate between fields such as sociology, history, anthropology, organization theory, philosophy, political science, psychoanalysis, or even the natural sciences or ecology contribute to developing alternative theories of corruption?
We also invite papers that propose alternative ways to research corruption. Can we develop new methodologies to study corruption by paying close attention to local (non-Western?) contexts? For instance, can one really approach corruption head-on, or can it also be studied incidentally, by, as Slavoj Zizek puts it, "looking awry"? Further, can we use “alternative” methods developed in the fields of art, literature, or popular culture to study corruption or to critique dominant understandings of corruption and anti-corruption?
Finally, we invite papers that discuss alternative ways of fighting corruption. By paying close attention to context, can we develop new ways of problematizing notions of the anti-corruption movement, thereby highlighting its hybridity and contradictory nature? How can we move beyond anti-corruption as (Western?) technologies of purification and really fight corruption in its local context? Is corruption something that should be fought indirectly by rather promoting other "Western" or "non-Western" positive values?
We invite papers addressing alternatives to corruption or anti-corruption that engage with one or more of the three types suggested above, but papers that go beyond that scope are certainly invited. Possible topics include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Cultural pluralism, diverse perspectives, contexts, non-western approaches
- Public, private, and third sector corruption
- Critical, Marxist, Historical materialist perspectives
- Turning to the local through “indigenous ethnographies”
- Good forms of corruption and/or bad (evil?) forms of anti-corruption.
- Discursive perspectives
- Corruption, anti-corruption and the world economic crisis
- Anti-corruption organizations and their practices
- Organizational corruption control (e.g., transparency, accountability, etc.)
- Corruption scandals and their impact
- Gender perspectives on corruption and anti-corruption
- The brands and images of anti-corruption

Eric Breit is Senior Researcher at Work Research Institute, Norway, and Visiting Researcher at Lund University, Sweden. His research revolves around organizational corruption, public sector governance and reorganization, and mediatized organizations. He has published in outlets such as the 'Journal of Business Ethics' and 'Culture and Organization'.

Thomas Taro Lennerfors is Senior Lecturer and Associate Professor at Uppsala University, Sweden, and Visiting Researcher at Meiji University, Japan. His work concerns ethics, corruption and sustainability. Apart from some monographs, and book chapters, he has published in for example the 'Harvard Business Review' and 'Ephemera - theory and politics in organization'.

Daniel Jardim Pardini is Senior Lecturer and Full Professor at the Doctoral and Master Business Administration Program at Fumec University, Belo Horizonte Brazil. He is the coordinate of a Brazilian research group in organizational corruption. His work involves studies on public administration, organizational corruption and corporate governance. He has published book chapters and papers in journals, such as 'Corporate Ownership and Control'.

Submit you abstract (1000 words) no later than 15 November 2013 at http://laemos.com/abstractsubmitform.html


Item 4:

GENDER, WORK & ORGANIZATION

8th Biennial International Interdisciplinary conference, 24th – 26th June, 2014, Keele University, UK

Call for abstracts: Gendering environmental sustainability: the cultural politics of nature

Mary Phillips, University of Bristol, ENGLAND
Alison Pullen, University of Swansea, WALES
Ida Sabelis, VU University, Amsterdam, NETHERLANDS
Christine Katz, University of Luneberg, GERMANY

Following countless warnings about the effects of climate change and environmental degradation, 2012 witnessed a record loss of sea ice, concentrations of greenhouse gasses above the Arctic at their highest point for some 800,000 years, droughts in the grainbaskets of the US and Europe and disastrous flooding elsewhere. Yet, politicians and the business community seem paralysed and efforts to address ecological crises have been described as a dismal failure (Wittneben, Okereke, Banerjee & Levy 2012). Organizational responses are characterized by a business case approach based on obtaining competitive advantage (Bansal & Roth 2000), finding a technical fix (Boiral, Cayer, & Baron 2009) and greenwashing (Walker & Wan 2012). Banerjee notes that: ‘Rather than reshaping markets and production processes to fit the logic of nature, sustainable development uses the logic of markets and capitalist accumulation to determine the future of nature’ (Banerjee 2003:153). The primacy of market forces, economic progress and technology remains largely unquestioned such that current discursive formations and material practices of organizational sustainability limit possibilities for transformative change.
The environment/nature is thus presented as a risk that should be ameliorated through mastery and domination or a market opportunity to be appropriated, commodified and consumed (Banerjee, 2003). Conceptualising the natural world in this way is grounded in what Connell (1995) has referred to as hegemonic masculinity. Masculinity is aligned with reason, rationality and the human mind which devalues the feminine, emotion, the body and the natural world (Lloyd 1993). This is a long-established argument made by feminist philosophies, but its treatment has tended to focus on the implications for gender, instead of what it might mean for gender and nature. Feminist approaches to environmental sustainability (ecofeminism) have developed in response to the ways in which ‘woman’ and ‘nature’ are conceptually linked in Western thought, wherein the processes of inferiorization have been mutually reinforcing. In so doing, ecofeminism has the potential to mount a radical challenge to current organizational and academic discourses and practices surrounding sustainability, social responsibility and justice (Plumwood, 1993). This stream will explore the relation between the gendered nature of the environment and current debates surrounding sustainability in studies of work and organization.
The stream therefore provides an arena through which ecofeminism and its themes – in particular justice and an ethics of care – can be further developed in studies of organization especially within the context of environmental uncertainty and crisis. The ecofeminist agenda has always included not only critique, but has set out to find means to move from ‘unhealthy, life-denying systems and relationships to healthy, life-affirming ones’ (Warren, 2000, 200) and thus to ‘reimagine, rethink and reshape’ relations to the natural environment. The result of not attending to the terminal conditions of myopic organizations and their members will be environmental failure and decay. Moreover, there has been a lack of gendered analysis, including feminist and philosophical analysis, in the field of sustainability and organizational sustainability and we wish to address this. We invite philosophical, theoretical and empirical papers that explore an ecofeminist commitment, practice and politics to the study of gender and nature in the field of work and organization relating to the environment, sustainability and social justice. We argue following Phillips (in progress) that ecofeminism provides a critical analysis of the gendered ways in which organizations, and organization studies, represent, construct and appropriate nature, and how that might be subverted and re-imagined to interrogate relations of power, resistance and politics. Indeed does feminism and ecofeminism enable a radical challenge to the field of gender and organization broadly, and sustainability specifically? Areas of interest to this stream include but are not limited to:
• Gendering organizational sustainability and environmental change.
• Masculinity, rationality, femininity, nature.
• Enhancing feminist approaches to the environment - resistance, politics, ethics.
• Cross-cultural perspectives on eco-feminism.
• Ecofeminist approaches to green economics.
• Gendered critiques of globalization.
• Envisioning embodied, emotional or creative responses to ecological crisis and challenges.
• Critiques of the en-gendering of sustainability discourses and practices.
• Political and community environmental activism and gender.
• Ecofeminist spirituality as a means of enacting a critique of hyper-rationality.
• Queering ecofeminism.
• Gendered methodologies for sustainability research and ecofeminist methodologies.
• Ecofeminist deconstructions of organizational environmental strategy and practice.
• Ecofeminist pedagogy, research practice, reflexivity, research ethics, and an ethics of care.
• Eco/feminism, organizations and complex systems
• Global inequalities, social justice, difference, ethics, the ethics of care, work, organization and the environment.

Abstracts of approximately 500 words (ONE page, Word document NOT PDF, single spaced, excluding references, no header, footers or track changes) are invited by 1st November 2013 with decisions on acceptance to be made by stream leaders within one month. All abstracts will be peer reviewed. New and young scholars with 'work in progress' papers are welcomed. In the case of co-authored papers, ONE person should be identified as the corresponding author. Note that due to restrictions of space, multiple submissions by the same author will not be timetabled. In the first instance, abstracts should be emailed to: Mary.Phillips@Bristol.ac.uk Abstracts should include FULL contact details, including your name, department, institutional affiliation, mailing address, and e-mail address. State the title of the stream to which you are submitting your abstract. Note that no funding, fee waiver, travel or other bursaries are offered for attendance at GWO2014.

References
Banerjee, S.B. (2003). Who sustains whose development? Sustainable development and the reinvention of nature. Organization Studies, 24(1), 143-180.
Bansal, P. & Roth, K. (2000). Why companies go green: A model of ecological responsiveness. Academy of Management Journal, 43(4) 717-736.
Boiral, O., Cayer, M. & Baron, C.M. (2009). The action logics of environmental leadership: A developmental perspective. Journal of Business Ethics, 85, 479-499.
Connell, R.W. (2001) The Social Organization of Masculinity. In S.M. Whitehead and F.J. Barrett (Eds.) The Masculinities Reader, pp. 30-50, Cambridge: Polity.
Lloyd, G. (1993) The Man of Reason: ‘Male’ and ‘Female’ in Western Philosophy. 2nd Ed., London: Routledge.
Phillips, M. (in progress). Re-writing organizational environmentalism: Ecofeminism, corporeality and the language of feeling
Plumwood, V. (1993). Feminism and the Mastery of Nature, London: Routledge
Warren, K.J. (2000). Ecofeminist Philosophy: A Western Perspective on what it is and why it Matters. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield.
Wittneben, B.F., Okereke, C., Banerjee, S.B. & Levy, D.L. (2012). Climate change and the emergence of new organizational landscapes, Organization Studies, 33(11), 1431-1450.


Item 5:

LAEMOS 2014, Havana, Cuba, 2-5 April

CALL FOR PAPERS – Subtheme 01: Alternative Spaces/Places of Organizing: Communities, Collective Agency and Social Change

Subtheme Conveners:
Dr. Maria Daskalaki (Kingston University, UK), Pablo Fernandez (EMLYON, France) and Chris Land (University of Essex, UK)

Contact:
m.daskalaki@kingston.ac.uk ; cland@essex.ac.uk ; FERNANDEZ@em-lyon.com

The ongoing financial crisis and the fractures in the hegemonic discourses and practices of capitalist relations have both delegitimized dominant organizational forms, and opened a space within which alternatives can proliferate. Within this space we find a wide range community initiatives and new organizational forms striving to reverse the damaging effects of the crisis on individuals, communities and families, but also to prefigure alternative ways of organizing an economy on more democratic, participative, and equal grounds. At the centre of these organizational forms are contestations over space and place. Strategies of occupation, whether of a public square or park, or an unprofitable factory, create a potent co-presence within which to experiment with new forms of organizing: a kind of social laboratory. But they also actively contest the hegemonic constructions of space as privatized and enclosed. Hegemonic forms of spatial enclosure, structured around private properly and the regulation of access through monetary exchange have long been critiqued in the social sciences. Recall, for example, Marx’s observation that access to the ‘hidden abode of production’ was restricted by the edict ‘No admittance except on business’ (Marx, 1976: 276).
This is not to say that space and place have only become contested with the rise of the Occupy movement. From The Diggers on St George’s Hill in England during the civil war, through anti-nuclear occupations, the recent protests in Latin America, Turkey and South Europe, in to the more practical expedient of squatting (SEK, 2013), transition towns (Scott-Cato and Hillier 2010). Such contestations are not only directly economic, they are also phenomenological and even pedagogic, enabling a radical transformation of subjectivity and its emplacement in a concrete, spatial assemblage (Cato and Myers 2011).
In working toward social change, these movements actively engage in forms of political activity and re-organization, building new networks of care around the contested terrain of the community (Land, 2009), inhabiting urban activist/creative places and engaging with social or ‘public entrepreneurial’ practices (Hjorth, 2013). Blurring boundaries between work and life, and between politics and entrepreneurship, new organisational forms - from occupied factories to social centres and even co-working collectives - enable individuals and networks to express their discontent demanding not only their right to employment but also genuine social participation and democratic engagement as a response to disintegrating established social/institutional structures and policies. The question however remains as to whether these collective, global assemblages can constitute new domains in public life and the re-organization of space/place so as to contribute to social transformation.
In this stream we would like to combine the analysis of these organizational and social movements with an understanding of space and place, to connect locally grounded, community initiatives to the global spaces and flows of capitalist organizing. The phenomenon of self-organized social space and alternative places of social engagement have not still been fully explored and incorporated in the study of urban, social (policy) relationships (Cresswell and Merriman, 2011; McCann and Ward, 2011; Skelton and Gough, 2013), despite theoretical innovations like the 'critical relational geographies turn' (Thrift, 1996; 1999; Amin and Thrift, 2002; Massey, 2005; Jensen, 2006; 2009) or the ‘new mobilities paradigm’ (Thrift, 1996; Cresswell, 2006). Instead, most analysis to date has remained decidedly fixed and ‘a-mobile’. We want to problematize sedentary approaches that treat organizations as fixed dwellings or fixed geographical containers for social processes. We aim to challenge disciplinary boundaries and explore social-spatial life as a phenomenon of multiple and extended connections, organized through certain nodes or places of intermittent movement. For example we might think of such movements as ‘corridors’ (Lassen, 2006) of organizing functioning as complex intersections of ‘endless regimes of flow’, or we might analyze organization in terms of movement, constituting organization in terms of different speeds, scales and viscosities (Law, 2006). These ways of thinking space and place complement the new strategies and organizations of space through occupation or counter-hegemonic, creative movement. In both theory and practice (if such a separation is sensible) new forms of organization and community engagement are made possible.
In this stream, we would like to pursue these ‘corridors’ and movements in terms of alternative organization. In thinking of power and resistance in such ways, we invite contributions from theorists and activists, reflecting on practices of spacing, placing, movement, occupation and assemblage as collaborative urban social processes. We see such interventions as socially co-constitutive formations that re-imagine social and organizational relations (Daskalaki and Mould, 2013). Claiming back the city through self-organized, interventionary engagement with urban vacuoles and the creation of grassroots, self-managed social hubs, alternative communities demonstrate the importance of embedding urban interventions in a process of assembling new socialites that inspire and mobilize social solidarity and collective action.
Whilst the city offers a particularly fecund place for rethinking organization and the polis, we would not want to restrict our analysis to the urban, and welcome papers and interventions addressing the rural, or the rural/urban boundary, and the intersection of both with the virtual world. Digital assemblages construct and intersect with alternative spaces in a complex way as ‘digital space is embedded and not a purely technological event’ (Sassen 2006: 347), a point that has recently come to the fore in the use of Social Networking Sites (SNS) to organize movements to contest physical spaces, like the occupation of Tahrir Square. In an open and inclusive spirit, we thus invite papers that engage with the following topics (the list is not exhaustive):
· What are the potentials of occupation as a resistance strategy? How have recent waves of occupation differed from historical precursors?
· How are socio-spatial alternatives organized in local and trans-local environments and how do they interact with established institutional agents and structures? How do they resist/change/subvert them?
· What are the entrepreneurial practices and processes that support the emergence and evolution of alternative spaces and community organizing initiatives?
· What are the motives and the social values that drive individuals and collectives towards the formation and transformation of resistance networks and new forms of organization?
· How do reflexive learning and socially transformative engagement and collaboration intersect with space and place?
· What are the difficulties that these new arrangements encounter and what are the strategies they gradually develop to create sustainable territories of possibility for new organizational forms?
· How are the spatial arrangements of power responding to these new strategies and what challenges might these present?

References
Amin A. and Thrift, N. (2002) Cities: Reimagining the Urban. Cambridge: Polity.
Cato, M.S. and Myers, J. (2011) Education as Re-Embedding: Stroud
Communiversity, Walking the Land and the Enduring Spell of the Sensuous.
Sustainability, 3(1): 51–68.
Cresswell, T. (2006) On the Move. Mobility in the Modern Western World. London: Routledge.
Cresswell, T. and Merriman, P. (2011) Introduction: Geographies of Mobilities – Practices, Spaces, Subjects. An Introduction, in T. Cresswell and P. Merriman (Eds.) Geographies of Mobilities: Practices, Spaces, Subjects, pp.1-15. Farnham: Ashgate Publishing Limited.
Daskalaki, M. and Mould, O. (2013) Beyond Urban Subcultures: Urban Subversions as Rhizomatic Social Formations. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 37 (1): 1–18.
Hjorth, D. (2013) Public entrepreneurship: desiring social change, creating sociality, Entrepreneurship & Regional Development: An International Journal, 25 (1-2): 34-51.
Jensen, O. (2006) Facework, Flow and the City. Simmel, Goffman and Mobility in the Contemporary City, Mobilities 2(2):143-165
Jensen, O. (2009) Flows of Meaning, Cultures of Movements – Urban Mobility as Meaningful Everyday Life Practice, Mobilities, 4, 1, pp. 139-158.
Land, C., (2009) Community, in Hancock, P. and Spicer, A. (eds)
Understanding Corporate Life. London: Sage.
Lassen, C. (2006) Work and Aeromobility, Environment and Planning A, 38(2): 301- 312.
Law, J. (2006) Disaster in Agriculture, or Foot and Mouth Mobilities, Environment and Planning A, 38: 227-239.
Marx, K. (1976) Capital. Volume 1, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books.English translation of Das Kapital, vol. I (1867), Hamburg: Meissner.
Massey, D. (2005) For Space. London: Sage.
McCann E. and Ward K. (2011) Introduction. Urban assemblages: territories, relations, practices, and power, in McCann E. and Ward K. (Eds.) Mobile Urbanism: City Policymaking in the Global Age, pp. xiii–xxxv. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press.
Sassen, S. (2006) Territory, Authority, Rights: From Medieval to Global Assemblages. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
Scott-Cato, M. and Hillier, J. (2010) How could we study climate-related
social innovation? Applying Deleuzean philosophy to Transition Towns.
Environmental Politics, 19(6): 869–887.
SEK (Squatting Europe Kollective) (eds.) (2013) Squatting in Europe: Radical
Spaces, Urban Struggles. Brooklyn: Minor Compositions/Autonomedia.
Skelton, T. and Gough, C. (2013) Introduction: Young People's Im/Mobile Urban Geographies, Urban Studies, 5 (3): 455-466.
Thrift, N. (1996) Spatial formations. London: Sage Publications.
Thrift, N. (1999) The place of complexity, Theory, Culture and Society, 16 (3): 31-69.


Item 6:

30th EGOS Colloquium, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, July 3-5, 2014

Call for Papers – Sub-theme 33: Re-organizing Work, Sociality and Citizenship in Crisis

Convenors:
Maria Daskalaki, Kingston University, London, UK
m.daskalaki@kingston.ac.uk
Lucia Garcia-Lorenzo, London School of Economics, UK, and Universidad del País Vasco, Spain
l.garcia@lse.ac.uk
Paul Donnelly, Dublin Institute of Technology, Ireland
paul.donnelly@dit.ie

Work is an organisational and structural principle of society, subject to historical transformation processes. This goes beyond securing people's incomes and accounts also for the psychosocial functions of employment, integration, participation, citizenship and social cohesion (Korten, 1981). Yet, for people in the neo-liberalist, austerity-led economies (Konings, 2009), currently dominating European fiscal policy, work patterns are becoming increasingly precarious (Beck, 2000; Sennett, 2000; Standing, 2011; ILO, 2012), with alarmingly high levels of unemployment escalating and threatening social cohesion. Nevertheless, beyond the global occupy and anti-austerity protest movements, we are also witnessing the emergence of complex, global interdependencies among operationally autonomous organizations with shared interests, and institutional, community-driven entrepreneurial initiatives.
Uncertainty and complexity result in the assertion and utilization of local cultures, values, assets and resources, and, gradually, in alternative forms of organizing. The newly formed assemblages of unemployed, underemployed, deprived and dispossessed seem to be responding to the vulnerability of their prescribed 'role' as passive subjects. They have started developing new organizing possibilities and collaboratively are moving forward from just assembling in actual and virtual public places to also (re)building local community, entrepreneurial arrangements. The study therefore of these emergent, and sometimes ephemeral, forms of organizing under unstable, still (trans-) forming, socio-economic relations becomes important. Further, new work relations emerge and processes are co-constructed as vulnerable communities are becoming embedded in a new landscape of organizing under abrupt and rapid transformation. We invite original methodologies (e.g. visual methodologies, autobiographical accounts) in documenting the lived experience of crisis and papers that focus on the following (non-exhaustive list):
· Going beyond the grand narrative of 'the global financial crisis' to contribute narratives on the practice of living without, or with hardly any, work.
· Discourses of crisis and how do they impact upon collective definitions of work/employment relations and professional and personal identity.
· Theorizing institutional change in crisis and effects for organizations or contexts of organizing.
· Studies of the role of new media in affecting change in (work) communities and institutional re-arrangement.
· Theoretical approaches and cases of organizing entrepreneurial practice in contexts of instability and flux and creating new forms of sociality and interventionary citizenship.
· Processes of emergence, evolution, learning and leading in social/activist movements and community-based social/public initiatives (e.g., alternative currencies, workers' co-operatives, volunteerism, and other solidarity organizational forms like soup kitchens, exchange networks, etc.)

References
Beck, Ulrich (2000): The Brave New World of Work. Cambridge: Polity.
ILO – International Labour Organization (2012): World of Work Report: Better Jobs for a Better Economy. Geneva: ILO.
Kalleberg, Arne L. (2009): 'Precarious work, insecure workers: Employment relations in transition.' American Sociological Review, 74 (1), pp. 1–22.
Konings, Martijn (2009): 'Rethinking neoliberalism and the subprime crisis: Beyond the re-regulation agenda.' Competition and Change, 13 (2), pp. 108–127.
Korten, David C. (1981): 'The management of social transformation.' Public Administration Review, 41 (6, pp. 609-618.
Sennett, Richard (2000): The Corrosion of Character: The Personal Consequences of Work in the New Capitalism. London: W.W. Norton.
Standing, Guy (2011): The Precariat: The New Dangerous Class. London: Bloomsbury.


Item 7:

1-2 postdoc positions open for applicants at USBE and the TripleED project:

http://www8.umu.se/umu/aktuellt/arkiv/lediga_tjanster/315-836-13.html#eng

Umeå University is dedicated to providing creative environments for learning and work. We offer a wide variety of courses and programmes, world leading research, and excellent innovation and collaboration opportunities. More than 4 400 employees and 34 000 students have already chosen Umeå University. We welcome your application!
Umeå School of Business and Economics (USBE) has over 170 employees including about 90 PhDs and researchers. The activities consist of research and teaching in business administration, economics and statistics. We have more than 2000 students going through our programs/year. For more information about the business school visit www.usbe.umu.se
1-2 postdoctoral positions in Business Administration at Umeå School of Business and Economics with a focus on research on decision making and organizing in extreme environments

The position is for full time during two years starting January 1, 2014, or upon agreement.

Umeå School of Business and Economics (USBE) at Umeå University advertise one to two post-doctoral positions within the research group Extreme Environments, Everyday Decisions (TripleED). TripleED is a group of international researchers, where the base is the section for Management at USBE. The group conducts research on decision making and organizing in environments where individual risk being harmed. More specifically, the researchers study among other things group and organization processes, organizational routines and leadership, and how these areas influence and are influenced by individuals, group and society. Examples of environments studied include mountain expeditions and emergency health care. Several of the researchers are linked to the USBE strong research environment in projects, innovations and networks. The group further has collaborations with researchers at several leading international universities. More information about the project is available at www.tripleED.com.
The main work task is to contribute to the research environment by conducting research, collaborating with the community as well as with other researchers within and outside USBE and arranging seminars and conferences with members of the research group. The holder of the position is expected to actively apply for external research funding, individually as well as with other researchers in the research environment. Teaching activities can be included in the position at a maximum of 20 percent of full time.
To qualify for the position the applicant must hold a PhD in Business Administration or have the corresponding scientific competence. Eligible for employment as a post doc are persons who completed their doctoral degree maximum three years before the end of the application period. A precondition is that the applicant has not previously been employed as a post doc at Umeå University (with support of the agreement from September 4, 2008) during more than a year within the same or a similar field.
Upon selection of applicants, special attention is paid to academic skills demonstrated through research and publications in internationally recognized journals as well as prior and planed research of relevance for the position. Attention is also paid to the ability to collaborate and communicate in the academic field. The applicant should also demonstrate the pedagogical ability necessary to conduct teaching on bachelor and master’s levels. The applicants will be ranked primarily based on scientific skills and their research profile within the area for the position.

The application will consist of the following:
• A curriculum vitae (certified) including list of publications • A written account of the applicant’s research experience to date (2 pages) • A written account of the applicant’s teaching experience to date (1 page) • Project plan for planned and ongoing research, as well as how it fits with the overall focus of the research project’s main focus (2 pages) • Copies of scholarly works/publications (maximum five) • Other documents you wish to put forward

Further information can be obtained from research leader Markus Hällgren, +46 90-786 58 85, markus.hallgren@usbe.umu.se, or the Associate Head of Department Jessica Eriksson, +46 90-786 99 82, jessica.eriksson@usbe.umu.se. Union information can be obtained from SACO, +46 90-786 53 65, SEKO, +46 90-786 52 96 or ST, +46 90-786 54 31.
The application can be submitted either electronically (documents must then be in word- or pdf-format) or in hard-copy form (2 copies). Potential interviews are planned between 2013-10-15-2013-11-15.
Your complete application, marked with reference number 315-836-13, should be sent to jobb@umu.se (state the reference number as subject) or to the Registrar, Umeå University, SE-901 87 Umeå, Sweden to arrive October 1, 2013 at the latest.

We look forward to receiving your application!


Item 8:

Assistant/Associate Professor – Organizational Learning, University of Toronto

Department of Leadership, Higher and Adult Education
Posting Date: August 26, 2013 Closing Date: October 15, 2013

http://www.oise.utoronto.ca/oise/UserFiles/File/Working%20at%20OISE/Tenure%20stream%20faculty%20positions/LHAE_OrganizationalLearning_2013.pdf

The Ontario Institute of Studies in Education, University of Toronto invites applications from outstanding scholars for a tenure-stream appointment in Organizational Learning in the Department of Leadership, Higher and Adult Education. The appointment will be at the rank of Assistant or Associate Professor and commence on July 1, 2014. The position resides in the Adult Education and Community Development program which is internationally recognized. We seek applicants with a doctorate in adult education or a related field, a distinguished record of research and teaching excellence in the area of organizational learning that fosters sustainable social change, both locally and globally. The ideal candidate will have expertise in the growing range of theories, policies, and practices which promote, define and regulate learning opportunities for adults through organizations in Canada and internationally. In particular, we seek a dynamic educator with critical research and practice in some or all of the following areas: organizational learning, workplace leadership, team-based and professional learning, organizational development and change, and sustainable, collaborative and equitable practices in organizational settings. Salary will be commensurate with qualifications and experience. In addition to having a doctorate, successful candidates will have a distinguished program of research and publication, the ability to make a strong contribution to teaching, and to building leadership and research capacity in the field of organizational learning. Evidence of excellence in teaching and research is required. All qualified candidates are invited to apply by clicking on the link below.
Applications should include a cover letter, curriculum vitae, teaching dossier, a statement outlining current and future research interests and three representative publications. If you have any questions about this position, please contact the department at: karen.dinsdale@utoronto.ca.
All application materials should be submitted online. The UofT application system can accommodate up to five attachments (10MB) per candidate profile; please combine attachments into one or two files in PDF/MS Word format.
Submission guidelines can be found at: http://uoft.me/how-to-apply. Applicants should ask three referees to send letters directly to the department via email to karen.dinsdale@utoronto.ca by the closing date October 15, 2013.
The position will remain open until filled. Established in 1827, the University of Toronto is Canada’s largest and most research-intensive university and the only Canadian university to be named in the top 25 in the Times Higher Education World University Rankings. Located in and around Toronto, one of the world’s most diverse cities, the University of Toronto’s vibrant academic life is enhanced by the cultural diversity in its community. The Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE) has, for more than a century, made a major contribution to advancing education, human development and professional practice around the world. With more than 72,000 alumni, close to 3,000 students, and 20 research centres, ours is an intellectually rich and supportive community, guided by the highest standards of scholarship and a commitment to equity and social justice. For more information please visit the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education homepage or the Department of Leadership, Higher and Adult Education website at: http://www.oise.utoronto.ca/lhae.
The University of Toronto is strongly committed to diversity within its community and especially welcomes applications from visible minority group members, women, Aboriginal persons, persons with disabilities, members of sexual minority groups, and others who may contribute to the further diversification of ideas. All qualified candidates are encouraged to apply; however, Canadians and permanent residents will be given priority.


Item 9:

Can the Public Intellectual Save the University?

26 September 2013 in Cardiff

Invitation to a one-day event to discuss the role of the university today and its responsibility to the public.

With: Simon Critchley, Mary Evans, Andy Martin and Martin Parker
Time: 10.30 - 17.00 hrs
Place: John Pryde Lecture Theatre, Sir Martin Evans Building, Park Place, CF10 3AX

The event is free of charge

10.30 - 10.45 Welcome Address (Carl Cederström)
10.45 - 11.45 Martin Parker
12.00 - 13.00 Mary Evans
14.00 - 15.00 Andy Martin
15.15 - 16.15 Simon Critchley
16.15 - 17.00 Panel debate

To register and for more information:
http://eventsforce.net/cbs/54/home

For questions email:
cederstromcf@cf.ac.uk
carbs-conference@cardiff.ac.uk