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Dear Colleagues and Friends,

We would like to invite you to submit an abstract to

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Stream 25: Development and Globalization ? Human Rights and Organizing  
Democracy
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at the Sixth International Critical Management Studies Conference (CMS  
6) taking place from 13 - 15 July 2009 at Warwick Business School, UK

You can find the more detailed call for papers below. Please note that  
abstracts are due on 1 November 2008. We welcome papers from  
researchers and practitioners alike from diverse backgrounds and take  
pride in supporting junior scholars. Please do not hesitate to contact  
us at our stream email address [log in to unmask] for further  
information on our conference stream. More information on the CMS 6  
conference can be found at  
http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/wbs/conf/cms2009/.

We look forward to receiving your abstracts and welcoming you in Warwick!

Best regards,

Sadhvi Dar, Queen Mary University of London, UK
Bettina Wittneben, University of Oxford, UK
Bobby Banerjee, University of Western Sydney, Australia

Stream title:
Development and Globalization ? Human Rights and Organizing Democracy

Stream description
This stream provides a stimulating and exciting space to discuss  
development and globalisation issues within a critical management  
studies context. We are inviting papers from diverse world views and  
academic fields to engage with current political questions that are  
central to understanding the international organisation of development  
and globalisation.

We hope to capture how the current political climate has been absorbed  
in our academic debates on global development issues and how these  
debates have been flavoured by our understandings of human rights and  
democracy. We wish to explore the links between critical management  
studies and contemporary events, discussions and ideas about security,  
war, democracy, poverty and globalisation. These links should be  
central to all delegates who participate in this stream. However - the  
main precept from which we launch our call for papers, is for a  
committed and truly interdisciplinary approach to formulating  
theoretical assumptions and designing empirical studies.

We are told time and time again that we live in a globalizing world,  
and that this presents great risks as well as great opportunities to  
our lives. What has unfolded, however, is an inherently complex  
arrangement of power relations, discourses and institutions that set  
the agenda for how these risks are envisioned and how they are played  
out in the international arena. The workshop organizers relate these  
complexities to the problematic concepts of human rights and  
democracy. Such ideological motifs are sustained by a belief in the  
individual and the protection of private rights. They are also  
sustained by global efforts to transport these political ideas to  
other locations ? indeed ? to any location (geographic, economic,  
political, social) that steps up to the mark and embraces ?liberal  
democracy?. The organizers identify this globalizing human rights  
agenda as highly contentious and seek to develop a managerial critique  
of these issues.

We invite critical scholars to further explore the links between  
management studies and politics, international relations, political  
economy, security studies and other connected fields that problematize  
security and democracy as central organizing principles in current  
political discourses.

Themes
The stream convenors suggest engaging with the following themes but  
contributions are invited from other related fields as well:

Issues:
The political economy of human security
The geopolitics of the state: space and sovereignty
Capitalist institutions and war
Marketing ethics and the necro-economies
Democracy and security
Notion of sustainability and environmental risk
Climate change and human security

Perspectives:
Gender perspectives and feminist critique
Postcolonial and post-development perspectives
Human geography
Political economy
Critical management studies

Delegates are encouraged to submit abstracts that reflect on or  
explicitly engage with these themes outlined above. We will consider  
all submissions and actively promote an interdisciplinary approach to  
understanding development and globalization issues. In addition, we  
want to create a space to discuss different methodological approaches  
in tackling these themes.

Information for Authors

What you should do right now
Please submit your abstracts (maximum 1000 words, A4 paper, single  
spaced, 12 point font) and by 1st November 2008 to [log in to unmask]  
and [log in to unmask]

Hearing back about your submission
You will hear from us by December 2008 regarding our decision about  
the abstract you have submitted.

Writing your full paper
Authors whose abstracts have been accepted must submit their full  
paper by 1st May 2009. Please use the format: maximum 6000 (aim for  
4000) words A4 paper, single spaced, 12 point font.

Receiving a timetable
We will inform you when and where your paper will be presented during  
February 2009.


-- 
Sadhvi Dar
Lecturer in CSR and Business Ethics
School of Business and Management
Queen Mary University London
Mile End Campus
London E1 4NS

Tel: +44 (0)20 7882 2701
Mob: +44 (0)7973 236 104