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From: "Hamilton, Jennifer Anne" <[log in to unmask]>
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Subject: CFP: The Organization of Culture and the Culture of Organizations
(AAA 2006)
From: Peters, Rebecca [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
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Subject: CFP: The Organization of Culture and the Culture of Organizations
(AAA 2006)
Call for Papers
The Organization of Culture and the Culture of Organizations
105th American Anthropological Association Meeting
San Jose, CA November 15-19, 2006
Examining organizations and their relations of power, internally and
externally, has become an essential task for anthropologists concerned with
macro-structural change and its cultural dimensions. Of particular concern
in the study of such change are multi-national corporations, international
volunteer organizations, non-governmental organizations, policymaking
institutions and multilateral aid agencies which promote health and economic
development across the globe. Approaches to understanding these types of
organizations include documenting the social and material effects of an
organization's activities on a particular local community, as well as
tracing the emergence of organizational ethics. This panel invites papers
from a variety of topical and methodological approaches that address how
"organizational culture" is produced, in turn produces knowledge, and
finally how
this knowledge has everyday effect. We are interested in accounts of the
daily life of organizations, as well as accounts of lives influenced as a
result of a local, national, or global organizational presence. The panel
will attend to the cultural, social, political, and economic environments
that contour these relations, and we will explore how "studying up"
complicates more simplistic relational models of "organization versus
individual."
We welcome papers that address, among other questions, the following: How
does institutional culture differ across various sites of an organization
and its activities? How is organizational culture produced and reproduced
within an organization, and how do such processes shape the experiences of
those outside the organization? To what extent can these organizations be
seen to further the interests of state power and what knowledge is
instrumental in these processes? What role do these organizations play in
the construction and experience of local and global modernities? In
considering
these and related questions we redress the characterization of organizations
as monolithic assemblages with generic goals and influence, and instead
describe their nuanced and contingent nature and interaction in society.
Please send abstracts by March 27, 2006 to: [log in to unmask]
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