Dear all please find details of a conference stream that you may find
interesting.
Shona
Call for Papers
For Equal Opportunities International Conference, 1-3 July 2008 at the
University of East Anglia, Norwich.
The conference will provide an international platform for exchange of
knowledge across all strands of equality, diversity and inclusion at work
Stream: Fear, Shame, Anger and Pride: Emotions, Diversity and In/Equalities
in Organisations
Whilst there has been a veritable outpouring of academic work on emotions
in recent organisational theory, there has been very little explicit
theorisation or research on emotions, feelings, affect and in/equalities in
organisations. This stream starts to address this relative gap by
examining how recent social theory on emotions might help understand many
different aspects of the operations of inequalities and equalities work in
organisations. Drawing inspiration from the recent work of Sara Ahmed on
the cultural politics of emotions, it explores issues such as:
• dominant group’s fear of minoritised groups’ anger;
• the so called backlash to equal opportunities by dominant groups;
• anxiety, nervousness, confrontation and defensiveness in diversity
training;
• organisational diversity pride; leaders’ ‘passion’ for and
commitment to diversity; diversity awards and the ‘glossification
and ‘showcasing’ of diversity (Prasad and Mills, 1997, );
• equality and diversity and white shame and guilt (Hunter, 2007)
• equality and diversity fatigue and weariness; the emotional labour
of diversity workers
• social, cultural, national and geographic conceptions of emotions
and /inequalities
The stream will provide a forum for empirical and theoretical work; work in
progress; and social and psychological accounts of emotions but which move
away from essentialising or de-politicising emotions.
Track questions:
• How might recent work on emotions in organisations illuminate
current thinking on inequalities and equalities in organisations?
• How might thinking on emotions enhance current ideas about
diversity and equality interventions in organisations?
• How do emotional concepts and emotional practices vary across
different national and cultural boundaries?
• How might transnational feminisms and anti-racisms helps us
understand differing views on emotions and in/equalities and the work of
diversity and equality workers?
• How might research on emotions develop understanding of how
inequalities and equalities work/operate in organisations?
Submission:
Abstracts should be submitted to Elaine Swan at [log in to unmask] by
April 11th 2008
Key dates:
Closing date for abstracts April 11th, 2008.
Final confirmation of stream due on May 20th 2008
Final papers to be submitted by June 6th 2008 for online publication
Conference details:
Papers are to be no more than 5,000 words in length. Paper presentations at
the conference will be a maximum of 20 minutes long, with 10 minutes for
questions and discussion. Data projectors will be available in each
conference room.
Registration Fees:
Registration fees for the conference will be £400. This price includes:
- full attendance at the conference, 1-3 July 2008
- accommodation for the nights of 1,2 July 2008 at UEA Guest Suites
- all meals and refreshments for the conference, including the
welcome function at the Sainsbury Centre, the conference dinner at the
Cathedral, and either a cruise on the Norfolk Broads or a tour of Norwich
Castle.
Registration will be available online through UEA Conferences.
Track chairs:
Dr Elaine Swan, Lancaster University, UK
Dr Valerie Stead, Lancaster University, UK
Sarah Proctor-Thompson, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
Dr Kiran Trehan, Lancaster University, Uk
Professor Beverly Metcalfe, Liverpool Hope University, UK.
Dr Diane Grimes, Syracuse University, US.
Dr Shona Hunter, Leeds University, UK
Dr Deborah Jones, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
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