* Governing Work through Self-Management*
* ephemera: theory & politics in organization*
Volume 11, number 2
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Edited by Thomas Lopdrup-Hjorth, Marius Gudmand-Høyer, Pia Bramming and
Michael Pedersen
While self-management has emerged as a robust way of getting things done in
present-day work life and organizations, it also presents itself as a
conception of considerable multivalency and ambiguity. Self-management has
been called upon both, to intensify capitalist work practices and to
overturning their exploitation, thus expressing at the very same time our
fears of subordination and our hopes for emancipation.
The aim of this special issue is to scrutinize this ambiguity and the
multivalence pertaining to self-management. A starting point of this
endeavour is to consider that a common feature of understanding
self-management as an essential piece is that it should either intensify or
help overturn capitalist explication. Self-management, in both instances,
appears to be both a problem and a solution relating to a variety of
managerial, organizational, and existential concerns.
In the issue, the complexities of managing work and organizations through
self-management are analyzed as they show up in relation to fast food
restaurants- workers, teachers and pupils in schools, artists, organic
farmers, and health promotion experts.
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*CONTENTS*
*editorial* Thomas Lopdrup-Hjorth, Marius Gudmand-Høyer, Pia Bramming and
Michael Pedersen
Governing work through self-management
*articles*
Christian Maravelias
The managementization of everyday life – Workplace health promotion and the
management of self-managing employees
Alexander Paulsson
Resisting self-management? On the possibility of dissolving oneself in fast
food restaurants
Helle Bjerg and Dorthe Staunæs
Self-management through shame – uniting governmentality studies and the
“affective turn”
Diane Skinner
Fearless speech: practising Parrhesia in a self-managing community
*notes*
Sverre Raffnsøe
The Five Obstructions: experiencing the human side of enterprise
Jørgen Leth, Sverre Raffnsøe and Peder Holm-Pedersen
Tripping up the perfect
Mary Jo Hatch
Organizing obstructions to manage organizations creatively: reflecting The
Five Obstructions
*roundtable* Pia Bramming, Marius Gudmand-Høyer, Dan Kärreman,
Charlotta Levay,
Michael Pedersen, Sverre Raffnsøe, Jens Rennstam, André Spicer and Sverre
Spoelstra
Management of self-management
*reviews* Joakim Kromann and Thomas Klem Andersen
Parrēsia: the problem of truth
Alan Bradshaw
Amidst the wreckage
