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Apologies for cross-posting... New issue of ephemera: theory & politics in organization Landscapes of political action Issue editors: Christian Garmann Johnsen, Lena Olaison, Justine Grønbæk Pors http://www.ephemerajournal.org<http://www.ephemerajournal.org/> It is increasingly evident that organizations and different processes of organiz- ing are not neutral, inevitable or even necessary, but inherently political. As a discipline, Organization Studies is slowly becoming aware of that organizations are not entities that exist separately from material ecosystems or outside chains of exploitation of cheap labour and raw material. Instead, organizations are intimately entangled to, dependent upon and contributing to global forces such as the destruction of ecosystems, climate change, inequality and (neo-)colonialism. This ephemera issue offers a series of explorations of the politics of organizing as well as of new forms of political action. The contributions in the issue engage with phenomena such as the Occupy movement, the Egyptian revolution, hacking, practices of caring in academia and strategies of resistance in coffee shops. Moreover, the contributions explore and identify new possibilities for political action by re-thinking concepts such as cybernetics, intellectual commons or by conceptualizing the materiality of organizing. Albeit in different manners, all contributions share a concern with the relationship between organization and politics and thus revolve around how processes of organizing intertwine with political issues like power, neoliberalism, gender and climate change. By seeing organizing as political, this issue offers the possibility of critically exploring the built-in conditioning of the (im)possible fields of action that follow from different forms and forces of organizing. Contributors: Thomas Swann, Alessandro Delfanti, Johan Söderberg, Lawrence T. Corrigan, Albert J. Mills, Liyan Gao, Soile Veijola, Eeva Jokinen, Erik Mygind du Plessis, Fabian Frenzel, Peter Case, Arun Kumar, Mitchell W. Sedgwick, Antonios Broumas, Mél Hogan, Ville Kivivirta, Sine Nørholm Just, Hugo Letiche, Geoff Lightfoot, Simon Lilley. [cid:71043a2b-f326-46f3-a51c-bbbbccabc42f] Venlig hilsen / Kind regards, LENA OLAISON Associate Professor, PhD DEPARTMENT OF MANAGEMENT, POLITICS AND PHILOSOPHY COPENHAGEN BUSINESS SCHOOL Department of Management, Politics and Philosophy Porcelænshaven 18B 2000 Frederiksberg Denmark Mob.: +46 736691060 [log in to unmask] Member of the editorial collective of ephemera. theory & politics in organization (http://www.ephemerajournal.org) Think before you print ######################################################################## To unsubscribe from the EPHEMERA list, click the following link: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=EPHEMERA&A=1