From: "Steffen G. Bohm" <s.g.bohm-AT-warwick.ac.uk> Subject: SPOON-ANN: Organization / Literature: Beyond Equivalence and Antinomy, CMS, Lancaster, UK, 7-9 July 2003 - Call for Papers Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2002 12:26:02 +0100 [Spoon-Announcements is a moderated list for distributing info of wide enough interest without cross-posting. To unsub, send the message "unsubscribe spoon-announcements" to majordomo-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu] Apologies for Cross-posting Organization / Literature: Beyond Equivalence and Antinomy A stream at the 3rd Critical Management Studies Conference ‘Critique and Inclusivity: Opening the Agenda’, Lancaster, UK, 7-9 July 2003. (www.CMS3.org) In recent years, writers on organization have increasingly been turning their attention to the question of ‘writing’. Variously this has taken the form of an enquiry into the nature of organizing as a mode of inscription, the study of specific organizational texts, the analysis of writing on organization, or the generalized application of a textual metaphor to all things organizational. This broad textual turn in organization studies inverts the previously assumed antinomy between literature and social-scientific writing. In doing so organization itself is reconfigured as a mode of inscription, and writing on organization becomes a form of literary endeavour. From being in a relationship of opposition, literature and organization have thus moved to a position of undifferentiated equivalence, a position equally as problematic as the traditional facile distinction between fact and fiction. This stream seeks an escape from this binary bind by reconsidering the relationship between organization and literature more symmetrically. To this end, the stream will emphasise both the organization of literature and the literature of organization: · The literature of organization. We encourage papers that eschew an instrumental view of literary theory and instead seek a critical engagement with ways of writing organization. As well as reconsidering the literary conventions of academic writing on organization, this move necessitates an opening onto literature itself as a force, not simply as a resource to be plundered for new ideas about organizing and managing. · The organization of literature. We also encourage papers that address the ways in which literature is organized. Such papers might include a socio-political analysis of publishing industries, for example a discussion of the political economy of the Booker prize, or prospect the similarities/differences between canonization processes underlying best-sellers from Hamel and Prahalad to Harry Potter. Within these two broad divisions, suggested themes include: · The organization of publication · The work of interpretation · Technologies of writing – could we build a Literature Machine? · History and literature – shifting canons · The value of trash? Labours of division in the production of literature · Literature as art, literature as method · Conventions of academic writing · Management science-fiction – writing the future of work · Writing gender – inscribing bodies at work · Autobiography and hagiography in the case study method · A literature of ‘the other’ – postcolonial writing on organization · When words are not enough – writing the unspeakable We are particularly keen to encourage any papers that seek a critical engagement with the field of literary theory, an encounter that has the potential to inform ways of writing and organizing from a variety of perspectives. For example, pursuing the debates surrounding literary criticism will enable participants in the stream to reflect upon the role of critique and the critic in the pursuit of a Critical Management Studies. As well as addressing the conference theme of inclusivity, this approach will enable a critical encounter with the inscription and epistemology of organization and management. Proposals for papers should be in the form of an extended abstract of no more than 1500 words, to be submitted to the convenors by the 18th October 2002. Selections will be made by 13th December 2002, with full-length papers to be submitted by 15th April 2003. Submissions and enquiries should be addressed in the first instance to: christopher.land-AT-warwick.ac.uk Convenors: Steffen Böhm, University of Warwick (s.g.bohm-AT-warwick.ac.uk) Christian De Cock, University of Exeter (c.de-cock-AT-exeter.ac.uk) Chris Land, University of Warwick (christopher.land-AT-warwick.ac.uk) Nidhi Srinivas, The New School (srinivan-AT-newschool.edu)
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