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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


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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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