(with apologies for cross-posting)
Dear Colleague
We are pleased to announce details of the Annual University of
Liverpool 8th Ethnography Symposium
‘The Politics of Meaning-making / Meaning-breaking’
The event will be held at VU University Amsterdam in the Department of
Organization Sciences 28th – 30th August 2013. Please find attached
the call for papers and details of dates, submission processes and
registration costs. The deadline for submission of 750 word abstract
is 8th February 2013.
Our keynote speakers are
Barbara Czarniawska, Gothenburg Research Institute, University of Gothenburg
Mark de Rond, The Judge Institute, University of Cambridge
Timothy Pachirat, The New School for Social Research, New York
Galit Ailon, Social Sciences, Bar-Ilan University, Tel Aviv
Meaning-making or sensemaking is a prime focus in ethnographic
studies. Scholars often conceptualise sensemaking as an exercise of
mental ordering. Arguably, social actors’ meaning-making involves a
cognitive mapping of the world. Yet, meaning-making is also a social,
politicized, power-sensitive act of worldmaking in which actors try to
grasp meaning for themselves, as well as attempt to make meaning for
others. Instead of making sense, they may then be out to make
nonsense; to remake, unmake or ‘break’ meanings of others; to deprive
something of its meaning and talk nonsense; to raise commotion or to
deceive by spreading misleading meanings. We may ask such questions
as: do social actors search for understanding to create order or are
they rather out to ‘break’ meaning? The ethnographer is trained to
always surmise meaning, to interpret symbolism, to find ‘depth’
underneath surface impressions. So, could meaninglessness be the
ethnographer’s blind spot? The ‘hole in a doughnut’ or, to remain
loyal to our Dutch roots, in a ‘holey cheese’? This year’s symposium
therefore encourages papers that explore both meaning-making and
meaning-breaking efforts in the organizational world and in our
explorations of it.
On behalf of the Organizing Committee
Katie Neary
Events Coordinator
University of Liverpool Management School
Chatham Street
Liverpool L69 7ZH
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