Hi Steve;
 I want to and will work like mad this week to do something decent...have you seen my chapter in the Alfons v Marrewijk and Dvora Yanow book just out last week but hideously expensive of course??
....we have a lot going on at our University ...like avoiding the impact of the CUTS!!
 So lots to think about at present

all best for 2011

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Subject: Final Reminder Call for Papers EGOS Gotherburg Stream 22: The Territorial Organization

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> Dear colleagues,
>
> Those with an interest in territoriality, territorialization or
> deterritorialization in any of its organizational forms are invited to submit a
> short paper to our subtheme (Sub-theme 22: The Territorial Organization , EGOS
> Colloquim in Gothenburg, Sweden, July 7 - 9, 2011)
>
> See full call for papers below for information (to be accessed at:
> http://www.egosnet.org/jart/prj3/egosnet/main.jart?rel=en&reserve-mode=active&content-id=1277261035067&subtheme_id=1277261035021)
>
> Submission deadline: January 16, 23:59:59 CET
>
> Looking forward to receiving your contributions.
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Garance, Steve and Iain
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> Sub-theme 22:
> The Territorial Organization
>
> Convenors:
> Garance Maréchal, University of Liverpool, UK
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> Stephen Linstead, University of York, UK
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> Iain Munro, University of Innsbruck, Austria
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> Call for Papers
>
> "The act of interpretation involves creating maps or representations that
> simplify some territory in order to facilitate action." (Weick, 1993: 361)
>
> Although the activity of mapping has received sustained attention in the
> context of organizational design or the social psychology of organizing, the
> concept of territory remains relatively unexplored. In this stream we wish to
> invite consideration of both material and symbolic aspects of the territorial
> characteristics of organizing. Karl Weick's "anecdote of the map" cited above
> is based on a geographical metaphor transposed into organizational theory in
> order to highlight the representational processes of simplification at work in
> processes of organizing. These maps act as heuristics to facilitate
> organizational action and are instrumental in purpose. In this stream we wish
> to pay greater attention to the production of such assemblages, but consider
> them as extending beyond organizational boundaries.
>
> Robert Ardrey in The Territorial Imperative (1966) synthesized a mass of
> contemporary biological and evolutionary evidence to argue that it was the
> natural instinct to territorialize that had helped humans to dominate the
> animal kingdom, and his work influenced the interpretation of human activities
> as diverse as the taming of the American West, the building of the Berlin Wall,
> the behaviour of aristocratic elites, and NASA putting a man on the moon. With
> a more parochial if global cultural scope, Geert Hofstede domesticated the
> concept by linking national cultures with anthropologically arbitrary
> geopolitical boundaries, ignoring diversity and cultural striations within
> those boundaries. We believe the human territory of territorialization lies
> somewhere between the two.
>
> Lash (1999: 59-61) argues that there is a tension between ground and
> groundlessness, expressible as the difference between roots and routes. Roots
> imbricate and transform the materiality of the ground through the
> immaterialities of time, culture and affect. Routes refer to ways of
> representing or 'marking' space, invoking different metaphors: grid or map
> (providing cognitive and psychosocial security), and labyrinth or rhizome
> (exploratory and allowing multiple simultaneous and spontaneous connections
> with heterogeneous others). Organizational activity cannot generate 'routes'
> without fully considering 'roots' aspects of territoriality, and vice versa.
>
> The concept of terroir can be used to explore aspects of territoriality still
> unaddressed in organizational research. Recently, the word has evoked a 'sense
> of place', associating social and cultural practice and place, with
> connotations of roots and origin, tradition and heritage (Maréchal, 2009).
> Deleuze and Guattari (1987) understand the concept in terms of psychophysical
> as well as geospatial territory. Terroirs are not material sites of cultural
> origins but spaces where and how concepts and representations – capital, words,
> things – are culturally realized and acquire qualities, taste, aroma or savour,
> the constructed outcomes of cultural processes of territorialization and
> deterritorialization. Every social assemblage is territorial and is organized
> according to these processes which follow lines of flight or escape. Property
> deterritorializes the relation between people and the earth, but being nomad
> escapes such constraints, evading them without being "rooted" in opposition. De
> Certeau et al. (1988) introduce the idea of "discursive terroir" which roughly
> corresponds to indexical and untranslatable elements in a discourse, such as
> cultural allusions and idiosyncratic expressions. Terroir can thus have
> significant symbolic and discursive connotations.
>
> How do humans negotiate terroir, through processes that are both symbolic and
> material and cut across the boundary between nature and culture? For Deleuze,
> it is through producing assemblage which is
>
> a multiplicity which is made up of heterogeneous terms and which
> establishes liaisons, relations between them, across ages, sexes and reigns –
> different natures. Thus the assemblage's only unity is that of a
> co-functioning: it is a symbiosis, a "sympathy". It is never filiations which
> are important, but alliances, alloys; these are not successions, lines of
> descent, but contagions, epidemics, the wind (Deleuze & Parnet, 2002: 69).
>
> For this stream, we invite explorations of this viral and liquid scenario in an
> organizational context: the organizational anthropology, sociology and
> psychology of terroir and assemblage. Contributions may consider, but are not
> limited to
>
> * The terroir effect (the material influences of terroir on the character
> of the organization) deploying the micro-focus of terroir in combining the
> micro-material and the micro-symbolic within a conceptualisation of dynamic and
> interconnected wholes.
> * Studies of microprocesses in creating new organizational forms, such as
> meshworks
> * Developing De Landa's attempt to produce an assemblage sociology
> * Use Hardt and Negri's notion of assemblage and other associated Deleuzian
> concepts to critique the control society and its organs, especially the idea of
> multitude
> * Empirical studies of organizational multiplicities, network cultures,
> liquid and viral cultures
> * The role of bodies with and without organs, in and as assemblages
> * "Nomad science" – circulation of knowledge through community via
> itinerant/migrant/mobile workers, open source information architecture.
> * The reterritorializing New Regionality (e.g. Slow Food) vs.
> deterritorializations of McDonaldization
>
> References
>
> Ardrey, R. (1966/1997): The Territorial Imperative: A Personal Inquiry into the
> Animal Origins of Property and Nations. New York: Kodansha Globe
> De Certeau, M., L. Giard & P. Mayol (1988): The Practice of Everyday Life. Vol.
> 2: Living and Cooking. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press.
> De Landa, M. (2006): A New Philosophy of Society: Assemblage Theory and Social
> Complexity. London: Continuum.
> Deleuze, G. & F. Guattari (1987): A Thousand Plateaus. London: Athlone.
> Deleuze, G. & C. Parnet (2002): Dialogues. New York: Columbia University Press.
> Lash, S. (1999): Another Modernity: A Different Rationality. Oxford: Blackwell.
> Maréchal, G. (2009): "Terroir." In: A.J. Mills, G. Durepos & E. Wiebe:
> Encyclopedia of Case Study Research. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
> Weick, K. (1993): "Organizational Redesign and Improvisation." In: G.P. Huber &
> W.H. Glick (eds.): Organizational Change and Redesign. New York: Oxford
> University Press, 346-382.
>
>
> Dr Garance Marechal
> Lecturer
> The University of Liverpool Management School
>

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