Folks, sorry I omitted dates, venues etc from this. Please check out
www.cms5.org where all will be revealed. Contact me for more details if needs
be.
Bill Cooke
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Date: Mon, 2 Oct 2006 09:09:28 +0100
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Dear all, please find a call for a CMS5 (5th Int'l Critical Management Studies)
Stream below. B.
STREAM: DEVELOPMENT AND GLOBALIZATION:
Organizing Global Concerns for Security and Participation
Dr Sadhvi Dar
Judge Business School
University of Cambridge
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Dr Bettina Wittneben
Rotterdam School of Management
Erasmus University
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Stream Description
This stream provides a stimulating and exciting space to discuss development and
globalization issues within a critical management studies context. We are
inviting papers from diverse world views and academic fields to engage with
current political questions that are central to understanding the international
organization of development and globalization.
We hope to capture how the current political climate has been absorbed in our
academic debates on development and globalization and how these debates have
been flavoured by our understandings of human security. We wish to explore the
links between critical management studies and development and globalizations
issues. These links should be central to all delegates who participate in this
stream. However - the main precept from which we launch our call for papers,
is for a committed and truly interdisciplinary approach to formulating
theoretical assumptions and designing empirical studies.
Discourse on human security is often directly linked to political pressure to
accept a society that is constrained by an apparatus of control. Today,
disruptions in our personal space, limitations to our civil rights and
additional fees and taxes are often justified by an urgent need for security.
Is our life becoming less secure or can these measures enhance security? Who
decides what constitutes threat and security?
While concerns for security are making us anxious and letting us accept
limitations to our rights and freedoms, participation in democratic processes
seems to require the opposite capabilities. Are participation and security
becoming antonyms or is participation a main ingredient for establishing a
secure society? Have the processes of public participation evolved to apply to
all aspects of our lives?
Call for Papers
Delegates may want to consider the following themes:
o Organizing Human Security
Autonomy, freedom, choice and security. These are ideas and concepts that
preoccupy social theorists - but how can we integrate them together in an
understanding of the managerial design and execution of development projects
and efforts to globalize? First World powers are now pushing for rapid
"democratization" in a bid to win the "war on terror". As established
international discourses, development and globalization are concepts under
threat of becoming dangerously hollow rhetoric, overshadowing the inherently
political nature of human security.
o Organizing Participation
How do our changing understandings of democracy relate to the design and
management of development practice? How have these understandings been
integrated into discourses of sustainable futures, climate change and gender?
Participation can be interpreted as accepting each other's ideas and
respecting each other in the most fundamental ways. What anarchical, truly
participatory structures have been tested and found adequate?
o The Politics of Representation
Representation is inherent to human communication and it is a powerful
discursive tool used to legitimate certain practices and ways of knowing. How
is this way of communicating operationalized within development organizations
and through efforts to globalize? How are these operations relational to
managerial discourses? How are spontaneity, argument and polemics impinged by
misrepresentation? What are the implications of misrepresentation on a
participatory process?
o Metaphors of Practice
Focusing more explicitly on the use of discourse in organizational practices,
this session explores the emergence of metaphors in developmental work and
globalization debates. Delegates are asked to explore what they feel to be
enduring metaphors or archetypical "master" metaphors in development that
accent and shape work practices. What new metaphors have surfaced in the recent
past and how have they been integrated into our existing understandings of what
development is or should be?
Delegates are encouraged to submit abstracts that reflect on or explicitly
engage with the four themes outlined above. We will consider all submissions
and actively promote an interdisciplinary approach to understanding development
and globalization issues. In addition, we want to create a space to discuss
different methodological approaches in tackling these themes.
Open Workshop
Following the success of our Workshop with Professor Arturo Escobar at the last
CMS conference, we are currently securing a visit from another distinguished
academic to contribute to our stream (guest speaker to be advertised soon). All
Development and Globalization presenters will have reserved seating for this
special event, which is open to all conference delegates.
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Dr. Bill Cooke
Senior Lecturer in Organizational Analysis
University of Manchester
Manchester Business School
Booth St. West
Manchester
UK
office location: E29 Manchester Business School Booth St. East
tel: (44) 161 200 3411
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Dr. Bill Cooke
Senior Lecturer in Organizational Analysis
University of Manchester
Manchester Business School
Booth St. West
Manchester
UK
office location: E29 Manchester Business School Booth St. East
tel: (44) 161 200 3411
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