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Dear Colleagues,
Please see our CfP below and circulate to any colleagues who you think
may be interested.
Kind regards,
Kate
The 8th International Conference in Critical Management Studies:
Extending the Limits of Neo-Liberal Capitalism
Manchester – 10-12 July, 2013
Call for Papers
Popular culture and organisation studies: Feminist interpretations of
the representation and re(production) of organisational life
Convenors:
Katherine Sang, Heriot-Watt University
Rebecca Finkel, Queen Margaret University
Elaine Swan, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, University of
Technology, Sydney, Australia
This stream examines the interface between popular culture and
organisational life. A range of scholars from different disciplines
are analysing popular culture to understand the complexities of work
under neoliberal capitalism and the personal, professional and
subjective vagaries organisational life. Recent examples include
analyses of series such as Mad Men (forthcoming special issue of
Cultural Studies Review), Star Trek Voyager (Bowring, 2004), The Bill
(a British police procedural drama) (Sullivan and Sheridan, 2005), The
Apprentice (Windle, 2010) and Futurama (Pullen and Rhodes, 2012).
Analysing popular culture and its representations of working life is
useful for critical management studies on a number of counts: first,
it brings concepts and theories from a wide range of disciplines such
as feminism, film studies, media studies, communication and cultural
studies, literary theory and psychoanalysis bringing new theories and
concepts to enrich our analyses of gender and race in organisations.
Secondly, as Emma Bell (2008) argues, TV and film allows for an
exploration of the emotional and personal aspects of management and
organisations, providing resources through which individuals can
critically reflect on their work experiences. Thus, film and
television can be viewed as part of that social construction of
management and organisational life (Bell, 2008). Indeed, popular
culture is often critical of working life and large corporations
(Hassard and Halliday, 2008). Thirdly, popular culture offers ideals
and exemplars of what is imagined to be the ‘good life’ achievable
through work.
In spite of the upsurge of interest in popular culture in
organisational theory, relatively little of this literature provides
us with a sustained feminist or critical race analysis of
organisations or management. In particular, little is said about and
how films and television may influence managerial and organisational
masculinities and femininities and their classing and racialisation.
In this stream, we welcome contributions which explore popular
representations of management and managers, particularly those which
use feminist and critical race theory to critique how managerial
masculinities and femininities are (re)produced. Submissions may
address (but are not limited to) the following questions:
· How can feminist analyses of representations of management deepen
our understanding of how gender, class and race are (re)produced in
contemporary workplaces?
· How can academic disciplines such as film and television studies or
literary theory inform studies of management and its practice?
· How do cultural representations of organisational life inform,
influence or reflect working life?
· What resources does popular culture offer us for critiquing
gendering and racialization in organisations?
Submission of Abstracts
Please send abstracts or any questions to Kate Sang ([log in to unmask]),
Rebecca Finkel ([log in to unmask]) or Elaine Swan
([log in to unmask])
Abstracts should be a maximum 500/1000 words, A4 paper, single spaced,
12 point font. Deadline 31st January 2013
Notification of paper acceptance: 22nd February 2013.
Full papers (in the region of 5000 words) will be expected by 1st May 2013.
Your abstract should include:
-Title
-The focus, aims and objectives of the paper
-The research evidence base underpinning the paper
-How the paper will contribute to the theme
References
Bell, E. 2008. Reading Management and Organization in Film. Palgrave
MacMillan, Berkshire, UK.
Cohen, L., Hancock, P., and Tyler, M. (2006). 'Beyond the scope of the
possible': Art, Photography and Organisational Abjection. Culture and
Organization 12(2): 109-125.
Grady, M. (2011). The Fall of the Organization Man: Loyalty and
conflict in the first season. In: Stoddard, S. F. Analyzing Mad Men.
Critical Essays on the Television Series.London: McFarlands and Co.
p.45-66.
Hassard, J. and Holliday, R. (2008) Organization-Representation: Work
and Organizations in Popular Culture. London: Sage.
Pullen, A. and Rhodes, C. Parody, (forthcoming) subversion and the
politics of gender at work: the case of Futurama’s ‘Raging Bender’.
Organization early cite
O’Sullivan, J. and Sheridan, A. 2005. The King is Dead, Love Live the
King: tall tales of new men and new management in The Bill. Gender,
Work and Organization 12(4): 299-318
Windle, J. (2010): ‘Anyone can make it, but there can only be one winner’:
modelling neoliberal learning and work on reality television, Critical
Studies in Education, 51:3, 251-263
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