In case anybody else is interested!
Best wishes
Tom
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From: Critical Perspectives on Work, Management and Organization
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Subject: 'Psychoanalysis, Organisational Practice and the Political' Stream
CMS5 CALL FOR PAPERS
Importance: High
Apologies for cross-posting
Dear colleagues,
Please find below (and attached) a call for papers for the 'Psychoanalysis,
Organisational Practice and the Political' Stream
at next year's Critical Management Studies Conference to be held in
Manchester, UK.
We hope that you will consider making a submission or forward this to
anyone who you think might be interested in doing so.
Abstracts are due on November 6.
Warmest regards,
Alessia Contu, Marianna Fotaki, Ian Parker and Yannis Stavrakakis
Call for papers
'Psychoanalysis, organisational practice and the political'
Stream CMS 5,
The Fifth Critical Management Studies Conference, Manchester Business
School, Manchester, UK, 11-13 July, 2007
Psychoanalysis has shaped the way we talk about ourselves and our world, and
has re-shaped the vocabulary of Western thinking. It has altered the ways we
view ourselves and has influenced arts, philosophy and virtually every
discipline concerned with human nature, developing an elaborate body of
theory and clinical knowledge. Yet, apart from notable exceptions, i.e. The
Tavistock Institute, it has been rather ancillary to the mainstream and has
made a relatively minor contribution to management science. Perhaps it is
not surprising that psychoanalysis has never been at the centre of the
curriculum of university business education, which is traditionally occupied
by quantitative sub-disciplines within economics and behaviouristic
approaches to organisational processes.
It is worth noting that although psychoanalytic thinking questions and
refutes the totalising positivist wisdom dominating management discourse it
remains at the periphery of critical inquiry. Unlike other knowledge
(critical realism, post-structuralism and all the various "-isms" that
(in)famously have been sources of inscription for elaborating positions in
academic discourse - such as CMS) psychoanalysis has been looked at with
suspicion, if not despised, as a bourgeois knowledge in some cases and in
others as the prosecution of an essentialist regime of truth. Yet, this
might not be the case after all...
Psychoanalysis, many argue, is more contemporary and relevant than ever,
particularly if it is linked to political and ethical questions by
interpenetrating the realm of passions and unconscious with the realm of
power and politics (eg Hoggett, 2006; Parker, 1999, Stavrakakis, 1999,
Zizek, 1989). Building on the stream on Psychoanalytic Thought and Critical
Management Project convened in CMS4 in July 2005, we wish to further the
integration of psychoanalytic thinking in problematising contemporary
societal issues and explore what psychoanalysis can offer to theoretical
dilemmas. We welcome contributions and insights from all psychoanalytic
traditions, including Kleinians and Lacanians.
We invite contributions that discuss, evaluate, unravel, critic and
challenge psychoanalysis (including connections and discontinuities between
its different strands and the way it has been utilized in different
disciplines) and what it can offer to studies of work and organizations
(i.e. theory of subjectivity, structure, language, science, etc.) and to
organisational practices (for example, leadership, entrepreneurship,
education, policy-making, resistance and change) particularly in the light
of values and questions that regard:
. the critique of liberal democratic practices and institutions
. the meaning of emancipation and equality
. the experience of difference as living alternative
Theoretical papers and empirically-informed ones are equally welcomed.
Please send your 300 words abstract to the convenors: Dr. Alessia Contu,
[log in to unmask] LUMS, UK Dr. Marianna Fotaki,
[log in to unmask], MBS, UK , Prof. Ian Parker, [log in to unmask],
MMU, UK , Prof. Yannis Stavrakakis, [log in to unmask], University of
Thessalonika, Greece
Guidelines for paper submission: abstracts to convenors (email) - 6 November
2006, decisions on acceptance communicated to authors - 14 February 2007,
full papers to convenors (email) - 28 April 2007
Further information/details at: http://www.criticalmanagement.org/
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