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ESRC Seminar Series - Abjection and Alterity in the Workplace
Seminar Three  - Being, Doing and Representing Abjection at Work
Thursday, May 21st 2009, 9:30 am - 4:30 pm
Radcliffe House, University of Warwick, UK

This seminar builds on the conceptual, theoretical and methodological insights of the 
previous two, and will explore in a more concrete manner both the representation and the 
lived experiences of abjection and alterity. As such, the speakers invited to this session 
all have first-hand experience of research on social groups who have, in one way or 
another, been designated as abject within the world of work and organisation.
 
The seminar will seek to address questions such as:

• How do particular groups of employees, and those subject to the organizational gaze, 
perhaps experience their own alterity and abjection?
• How, and with what consequences is the status of the abject ascribed to certain groups 
of employees and organisational clients, and with what consequences?
• What are the implications of such a catergorisation for those who research and work 
with such subject groups?
• What forms and patterns of reappropriation and resistance emerge within and amongst 
such stigmatised groups?

Confirmed speakers include:
Professor Bobby Banerjee - University of Western Sydney, Australia
Daniel Doherty - University of Bristol, UK
Steve Lowe, Derbyshire County Council, UK
Dr Kat Raich, University of Essex, UK
Dr John Troyer - University of Bath, UK

Attendance (which includes the seminar pack and lunch) is free. There will also be 10 
bursaries of up to £100 each to fund travel to the seminar for doctoral students.

To register for this event please go to:

http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/wbs/projects/aaw/

Please email Philip Hancock [[log in to unmask]] for further details.