Deadline for Submissions December 7th

9th EURAM (European Academy of Management)
11th - 14th M ay, Liverpool 2009
A C C Arena, Mersey River Water front, Liverpool, UK

Renaissance Politics: Power, Ethics and Paradox in Regenerating
Economies

http://www.euram2009.org/userfiles/92_FINAL%20Abstract.pdf

Track Chair
Dr Garance Maréchal, University of Liverpool Management School, UK
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Co-Organisers Professor Eduardo Ibarra-Colado, Departamento de Estudios
Institucionales, UAM Cuajimalpa, Mexico Professor Stephen Linstead, The York
Management School, University of York, UK Prof. Alexander Styhre, Chalmers
University of Technology, Sweden

"A terrible beauty is born"

William Butler Yeats, Easter 1916

"Renaissance" is a term that is synonymous with growth and a flowering of
learning, a movement towards a new form of social relations driven by
knowledge, and carried through by multi-tasking agents possessing science,
culture, philosophy and piety. But its legacy includes a dark side -
renaissance politics synonymous with the de Medici family and Niccolo
Macchiavelli, the Spanish Inquisition, and the birth of colonial
exploitation and bureaucracy and over 300 years of the slave trade. With
rebirth and renewal came neglect, suppression and destruction. What is born
or renewed is not always good, is frequently at the expense of something or
someone else.

We invite papers that address the paradoxes of power and regeneration;
cultural drivers of creative economies; the local dynamics of negotiation
and creativity; novelty and revolution; the nature of advantage and
disadvantage; reopening old wounds - historical oppression as a foundation
of contemporary success; constraining renaissance - regulatory limitations
on the developing world; democracy, autonomy, and the rise of the
"subaltern"; gender and diversity of access to opportunity and
participation; tradition, trade unions, resistance and the politics of
change; the politics of technology projects and innovation; power,
consumption and commodification; power in emerging networks and
heterarchies; inequality of benefit in economic regeneration; opportunism
and corruption; ethics and social entrepreneurship; the politics of
private-public partnerships; capitalizing on inventiveness; the role of
community in regeneration; the possibilities of autonomy and collaboration;
big energy-related projects and global financial institutions; new
life-styles and changing work patterns; environmental considerations in
economic development; the regeneration of crime; and subjectivities under
renewal.

We welcome new empirical work and work that critically explores new
practices of management in regeneration projects from a range of disciplines
and are paradigms.