SCOS Update: January, part II
14/01, 2012 | CONFERENCES | CALL FOR PAPERS
Three items mid-January:
1) Accommodation update for SCOS 2012, in Barcelona
2) Call for papers: Special issue on Recovery and organization in Culture and Organization
3) Ethnographic Horizons in Times of Turbulence
1) Accommodation update for SCOS 2012, in Barcelona
2) Call for papers: Special issue on Recovery and organization in Culture and Organization
3) Ethnographic Horizons in Times of Turbulence
Item 1:
Accommodation update for SCOS 2012, in Barcelona:
Please note that the hotels previously recommended are beginning to run out of vacancies. Please check out the list of new recommendations.
Item 2:
Call for papers: Recovery and organization
Special issue of Culture and Organization, Volume 19, issue 5, 2013
Following the success of the 29th SCOS conference on the theme of ‘Recovery’, we are inviting contributions for a special issue of Culture and Organization that explore the ways in which the world is living on and living through the impact, persistence and aftershocks of the recent economic crisis. What this recovery might look like, and how we might experience it, naturally depends on perspective. The radical left we assume may articulate recovery as an ongoing legitimation crisis, in which recovery involves a global ‘waking’ up to the inequities and environmental degradation which capitalism generates. Moving much further right on the political spectrum, those in the neo-liberal Hayekian camp will presumably construct recovery as a swift return to free market economics without the ‘unnecessary’ intervention of an ‘always clumsy’ government of whatever kind. And of course there will be innumerable way stations in between, and myriad possible recoveries.
Recovery then is an evocative and often circuitous concept which we can approach from multiple vantage points. There is, for example, the possibility of exploring recovery as a process of change leading to improved health and well-being. As such recovery can be framed as a process of healing and transformation for the better, at the level of the individual, the organization and/ or the national and international economies. This also necessitates conceptualizing malaise or decline (which itself can be done in myriad ways) and of what might constitute the converse. Then there is the question here of whether recovery should be seen as a process – perhaps a never-ending one - or as the end state of wellness. But recovery might equally be about (re-)discovery of a real or imagined (or both/ and) organizational/ national/ international time and place. And in any case what exactly is being re(dis)covered here? Considering questions of collective and individual memory requires us to reflect on the inevitably reconstructionist qualities of remembering and nostalgia, as well as the dangers of forgetting what has gone before. Recovering could therefore be interpreted as individual or collective concealment, obfuscation, mystification or revisionism – or, on the other hand, as revelation and unveiling. To recover can also signify to get something back, to have it returned, to reclaim it as the ‘rightful’ owner or to be compensated for its loss. Still further, we can see recovery as the excavation of what lies beneath and is not immediately accessible – as in the extraction of natural substances such as oil, and the enormous environmental controversies surrounding such activities which in their turn link to the ongoing debates around carbon trading and ‘carbon democracies’. And recovery can additionally signify reconstituting useful substances from refuse or waste.
In all of these approaches to framing recovery – which are by no means exhaustive – it is experienced by individuals, organizations and other collectives at various meso and macro levels. And such dualisms might themselves be in crisis in any possible recovery. Recovery also implies a movement from past through present to future, which might be supported, resisted, subverted, imagined, re-imagined and unimagined.
As such, possible themes of recovery as it intersects with organization include, but are absolutely not limited to:
• Rediscovery of frames of the past, present and future at work
• Repair, regeneration and renewal in organizations and beyond
• Memory, nostalgia and forgetting in organizations and elsewhere
• Concealment, deceit, complicity, manipulation and recidivism in organizations and elsewhere
• The limits of recovery and the failure to recover: organizational deterioration, loss, death
• Signs and signifiers of recovery in organizations and beyond
• Body, mind, soul and well-being at work
• Recovery as an organizational/ economic imaginary or utopia
• Redemption, reparation and recuperation: from pre- to post-recovery in organizations and beyond
• Organizational spaces, places and times of recovery
• Ecologies of recovery and work systems as ecologies of healing
• Relationships of organizational and/ or economic recovery
• The East and West, or North and South, of organizational/ national/ transnational recovery
• Organizational heroes and heroics, healing and salvation – and their opposites
• Resistance to recovery in organizations and beyond
• What can be recovered? Organizational reclamations and compensations
In short, we welcome papers from any disciplinary, paradigmatic or methodological perspective as long as they directly address the theme of recovery and its relationship to organization.
Guest editors
The guest editors are Jo Brewis, University of Leicester, UK, and Mustafa Özbilgin, Brunel University, UK, and Université Paris-Dauphine, France.
Submission and informal enquiries
Papers should be submitted as e-mail attachments in Word 2007 if possible to recovery@mail.cfs.le.ac.uk, by 1st October 2012. Please ensure that you follow the C and O house style, as outlined at http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/journal.asp?issn=1475-9551&linktype=44. Papers should be between 8000 and 9000 words in length, and may be returned for shortening before consideration if the editors deem it appropriate. Please also be aware that any images used in your submission must be your own, or where they are not you must already have permission to reproduce them in an academic journal. You should make this explicit in the submitted manuscript. Please direct informal enquiries to Jo Brewis at recovery@mail.cfs.le.ac.uk.
Item 3:
Ethnographic Horizons in Times of Turbulence – The 7th Annual Joint University of Liverpool Management School and Keele University, Institute for Public Policy and Management Symposium on Current Developments in Ethnographic Research in the Social and Management Sciences
In association with the Journal of Organizational Ethnography and the journal Ethnography
University of Liverpool Management School
Liverpool, United Kingdom
29th – 31st August 2012
The annual Liverpool and Keele Ethnography Symposium is a leading international forum for debate and dialogue on the theory, practice and form of ethnographic work in the social and management fields. Provoked by debate and discussion during our 2011 symposium at Cardiff Business School, we are now making the call for papers for the 7th Symposium to be held back at the University of Liverpool, where the idea for this event was born. The title of this year’s symposium is Ethnographic Horizons in Times of Turbulence and we are inviting papers from all disciplines that put forward ethnographic work and arguments.
As Geertz tells us, ethnographic research must be invariably microscopic if we are to provide a rich and thick account of organizations, cultures and sub-cultures. However, we should not forget the wider social, historical, legal, political and economic environment in which the actors operate and as we enter 2012, we are part of a world in a state of political and economic upheaval. This year’s symposium therefore encourages papers that engage with the wider context.
We are also inviting papers that focus on the general themes of turbulence, change, and shifting horizons within organizations, communities and social groups as well as individual lives. The impact of rapid technological change, wide-spread deregulation, globalization and intensified competition induce us to adopt new organizational forms and modes of coordination locally and across the globe. The effects of unprecedented interdependence can be felt in very different spheres from business, to work, to our private lives.
Papers might therefore focus on ethnographies of lived experience during crisis and transition, providing a view of coping strategies. They might engage with action in volatile and temporary environments, the challenges of ethics and morality at the personal and organizational level. They might address the increasing pressures to adopt quick solutions; the impact and cost of short-term orientations and the perceived lack of vision. They might stress the adaptation to ways of being and working under conditions of fear, loss, marginalization, and rampant exploitation as well as political and financial instability in a globalised world. They might analyze the multiplication of social movements and activism, and different forms of organized resistance in an attempt to change (or defend) the status quo and give voice to different stakeholders. They might engage with the difficulty for individual human beings of experiencing a surge of acceleration of processes while yearning for a slower pace of life and work.
We welcome papers contributing to ethnography theoretically, empirically or methodologically within the broad scope of these themes. We seek to encourage a diverse range of submissions, across disciplines, and welcome work-in-progress from emerging scholars.
Key Note Speakers
Dr Simon Down, Newcastle University Business School, UK
Professor Karen Ho, Department of Anthropology, University of Minnesota
Professor Gideon Kunda, Department of Labour Studies, Tel Aviv University, Israel
Professor John Weeks, IMD Business School, Lausanne, CH
Conference Chairs
Dr. Manuela Nocker, University of Essex Business School
(Email mnocker@essex.ac.uk)
Dr. Geoff Pearson, University of Liverpool Management School
(Email: pearsong@liv.ac.uk)
Organising Committee
Dr. Matthew Brannan, Keele University Institute for Public Policy and Management
Dr. Jason Ferdinand, University of Liverpool Management School
Dr. Manuela Nocker, University of Essex Business School
Dr. Geoff Pearson, University of Liverpool Management School
Dr. Mike Rowe, University of Liverpool Management School
Dr. Frank Worthington, University of Liverpool Management School
Submission Details
Abstracts (up to 750-words), should be submitted to Geoff Pearson (pearsong@liv.ac.uk) by Friday 10 February 2012. Abstracts should be submitted in .pdf format and include author, contact and institutional affiliation details. Decisions on acceptance of papers will be given by email, subject to external refereeing by the 29th of February 2012.
Enquiries
Queries regarding academic issues can be made to either Manuela Nocker (mnocker@essex.ac.uk) or Geoff Pearson (pearsong@liv.ac.uk). Queries about the non academic areas of the conference should be directed to Katie Neary (ulmsents@liv.ac.uk) All information will be regularly updated on www.liv.ac.uk/ethnography.
Accommodation update for SCOS 2012, in Barcelona:
Please note that the hotels previously recommended are beginning to run out of vacancies. Please check out the list of new recommendations.
Item 2:
Call for papers: Recovery and organization
Special issue of Culture and Organization, Volume 19, issue 5, 2013
Following the success of the 29th SCOS conference on the theme of ‘Recovery’, we are inviting contributions for a special issue of Culture and Organization that explore the ways in which the world is living on and living through the impact, persistence and aftershocks of the recent economic crisis. What this recovery might look like, and how we might experience it, naturally depends on perspective. The radical left we assume may articulate recovery as an ongoing legitimation crisis, in which recovery involves a global ‘waking’ up to the inequities and environmental degradation which capitalism generates. Moving much further right on the political spectrum, those in the neo-liberal Hayekian camp will presumably construct recovery as a swift return to free market economics without the ‘unnecessary’ intervention of an ‘always clumsy’ government of whatever kind. And of course there will be innumerable way stations in between, and myriad possible recoveries.
Recovery then is an evocative and often circuitous concept which we can approach from multiple vantage points. There is, for example, the possibility of exploring recovery as a process of change leading to improved health and well-being. As such recovery can be framed as a process of healing and transformation for the better, at the level of the individual, the organization and/ or the national and international economies. This also necessitates conceptualizing malaise or decline (which itself can be done in myriad ways) and of what might constitute the converse. Then there is the question here of whether recovery should be seen as a process – perhaps a never-ending one - or as the end state of wellness. But recovery might equally be about (re-)discovery of a real or imagined (or both/ and) organizational/ national/ international time and place. And in any case what exactly is being re(dis)covered here? Considering questions of collective and individual memory requires us to reflect on the inevitably reconstructionist qualities of remembering and nostalgia, as well as the dangers of forgetting what has gone before. Recovering could therefore be interpreted as individual or collective concealment, obfuscation, mystification or revisionism – or, on the other hand, as revelation and unveiling. To recover can also signify to get something back, to have it returned, to reclaim it as the ‘rightful’ owner or to be compensated for its loss. Still further, we can see recovery as the excavation of what lies beneath and is not immediately accessible – as in the extraction of natural substances such as oil, and the enormous environmental controversies surrounding such activities which in their turn link to the ongoing debates around carbon trading and ‘carbon democracies’. And recovery can additionally signify reconstituting useful substances from refuse or waste.
In all of these approaches to framing recovery – which are by no means exhaustive – it is experienced by individuals, organizations and other collectives at various meso and macro levels. And such dualisms might themselves be in crisis in any possible recovery. Recovery also implies a movement from past through present to future, which might be supported, resisted, subverted, imagined, re-imagined and unimagined.
As such, possible themes of recovery as it intersects with organization include, but are absolutely not limited to:
• Rediscovery of frames of the past, present and future at work
• Repair, regeneration and renewal in organizations and beyond
• Memory, nostalgia and forgetting in organizations and elsewhere
• Concealment, deceit, complicity, manipulation and recidivism in organizations and elsewhere
• The limits of recovery and the failure to recover: organizational deterioration, loss, death
• Signs and signifiers of recovery in organizations and beyond
• Body, mind, soul and well-being at work
• Recovery as an organizational/ economic imaginary or utopia
• Redemption, reparation and recuperation: from pre- to post-recovery in organizations and beyond
• Organizational spaces, places and times of recovery
• Ecologies of recovery and work systems as ecologies of healing
• Relationships of organizational and/ or economic recovery
• The East and West, or North and South, of organizational/ national/ transnational recovery
• Organizational heroes and heroics, healing and salvation – and their opposites
• Resistance to recovery in organizations and beyond
• What can be recovered? Organizational reclamations and compensations
In short, we welcome papers from any disciplinary, paradigmatic or methodological perspective as long as they directly address the theme of recovery and its relationship to organization.
Guest editors
The guest editors are Jo Brewis, University of Leicester, UK, and Mustafa Özbilgin, Brunel University, UK, and Université Paris-Dauphine, France.
Submission and informal enquiries
Papers should be submitted as e-mail attachments in Word 2007 if possible to recovery@mail.cfs.le.ac.uk, by 1st October 2012. Please ensure that you follow the C and O house style, as outlined at http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/journal.asp?issn=1475-9551&linktype=44. Papers should be between 8000 and 9000 words in length, and may be returned for shortening before consideration if the editors deem it appropriate. Please also be aware that any images used in your submission must be your own, or where they are not you must already have permission to reproduce them in an academic journal. You should make this explicit in the submitted manuscript. Please direct informal enquiries to Jo Brewis at recovery@mail.cfs.le.ac.uk.
Item 3:
Ethnographic Horizons in Times of Turbulence – The 7th Annual Joint University of Liverpool Management School and Keele University, Institute for Public Policy and Management Symposium on Current Developments in Ethnographic Research in the Social and Management Sciences
In association with the Journal of Organizational Ethnography and the journal Ethnography
University of Liverpool Management School
Liverpool, United Kingdom
29th – 31st August 2012
The annual Liverpool and Keele Ethnography Symposium is a leading international forum for debate and dialogue on the theory, practice and form of ethnographic work in the social and management fields. Provoked by debate and discussion during our 2011 symposium at Cardiff Business School, we are now making the call for papers for the 7th Symposium to be held back at the University of Liverpool, where the idea for this event was born. The title of this year’s symposium is Ethnographic Horizons in Times of Turbulence and we are inviting papers from all disciplines that put forward ethnographic work and arguments.
As Geertz tells us, ethnographic research must be invariably microscopic if we are to provide a rich and thick account of organizations, cultures and sub-cultures. However, we should not forget the wider social, historical, legal, political and economic environment in which the actors operate and as we enter 2012, we are part of a world in a state of political and economic upheaval. This year’s symposium therefore encourages papers that engage with the wider context.
We are also inviting papers that focus on the general themes of turbulence, change, and shifting horizons within organizations, communities and social groups as well as individual lives. The impact of rapid technological change, wide-spread deregulation, globalization and intensified competition induce us to adopt new organizational forms and modes of coordination locally and across the globe. The effects of unprecedented interdependence can be felt in very different spheres from business, to work, to our private lives.
Papers might therefore focus on ethnographies of lived experience during crisis and transition, providing a view of coping strategies. They might engage with action in volatile and temporary environments, the challenges of ethics and morality at the personal and organizational level. They might address the increasing pressures to adopt quick solutions; the impact and cost of short-term orientations and the perceived lack of vision. They might stress the adaptation to ways of being and working under conditions of fear, loss, marginalization, and rampant exploitation as well as political and financial instability in a globalised world. They might analyze the multiplication of social movements and activism, and different forms of organized resistance in an attempt to change (or defend) the status quo and give voice to different stakeholders. They might engage with the difficulty for individual human beings of experiencing a surge of acceleration of processes while yearning for a slower pace of life and work.
We welcome papers contributing to ethnography theoretically, empirically or methodologically within the broad scope of these themes. We seek to encourage a diverse range of submissions, across disciplines, and welcome work-in-progress from emerging scholars.
Key Note Speakers
Dr Simon Down, Newcastle University Business School, UK
Professor Karen Ho, Department of Anthropology, University of Minnesota
Professor Gideon Kunda, Department of Labour Studies, Tel Aviv University, Israel
Professor John Weeks, IMD Business School, Lausanne, CH
Conference Chairs
Dr. Manuela Nocker, University of Essex Business School
(Email mnocker@essex.ac.uk)
Dr. Geoff Pearson, University of Liverpool Management School
(Email: pearsong@liv.ac.uk)
Organising Committee
Dr. Matthew Brannan, Keele University Institute for Public Policy and Management
Dr. Jason Ferdinand, University of Liverpool Management School
Dr. Manuela Nocker, University of Essex Business School
Dr. Geoff Pearson, University of Liverpool Management School
Dr. Mike Rowe, University of Liverpool Management School
Dr. Frank Worthington, University of Liverpool Management School
Submission Details
Abstracts (up to 750-words), should be submitted to Geoff Pearson (pearsong@liv.ac.uk) by Friday 10 February 2012. Abstracts should be submitted in .pdf format and include author, contact and institutional affiliation details. Decisions on acceptance of papers will be given by email, subject to external refereeing by the 29th of February 2012.
Enquiries
Queries regarding academic issues can be made to either Manuela Nocker (mnocker@essex.ac.uk) or Geoff Pearson (pearsong@liv.ac.uk). Queries about the non academic areas of the conference should be directed to Katie Neary (ulmsents@liv.ac.uk) All information will be regularly updated on www.liv.ac.uk/ethnography.