SCOS Update, March
13/03, 2013 | CALL FOR PAPERS
Two items for March:
1) Call for papers for a special issue of Scripta Nova: Nomadism and Organising - deadline extended!
2) Call for papers for the Critical Finance Studies V Stockholm University School of Business 14-16 August 2013
1) Call for papers for a special issue of Scripta Nova: Nomadism and Organising - deadline extended!
2) Call for papers for the Critical Finance Studies V Stockholm University School of Business 14-16 August 2013
Item 1
Extension of the deadline to submit papers for the special issue of Scripta Nova.
Given the requests to extend the submission deadline for the following SI, we are happy to announce we have decided to move it to 31 March 2013.
Call for papers
Special issue of Scripta Nova
Volume 17, issue 420, 2014
Nomadism and Organising
Guest editors: Hugo Gaggiotti, University of the West of England (United Kingdom), Monika Kostera, University of Warsaw (Poland) and Ricardo Bresler, Fundação Getulio Vargas (Brazil).
Mainstream western epistemologies and methodologies on organising persist in attempts to delineate and fix reality. Within social science our questions (to ‘research subjects’, ourselves and colleagues) often invite static answers: where are you from?; are you male or female?; how old are you?; how long have you had this job?; where do you feel most at home?; what is my epistemology?; are you a positivist, constructivist, interpretativist, postmodernist, etc., etc.? Offering one possible line of flight from such fixity, Rosi Braidotti (1994) suggests acknowledging nomadism as an existential condition.
Ideas around nomad+global are becoming exchangeable representations of a vocabulary that in contemporary capitalism has to be universally understood, like nomad+millionaire (Palan, 2003). Nevertheless, our perception is that nomad and global are concepts that not necessarily and always are associated with organising. We still imagine organising very static, located and practicing in a place inscribed in a space (Gaggiotti 2006), necessarily creating a sense of a community, in what Czarniawska and others (Czarniawska, forthcoming; Latour, 2002) have referred to as a deeply rooted modernist belief in spatial homogenization. But seems that nomadism create a sense of a community too (Waller, 1998) or serves to populate the imagery of a global community, a practice that some authors have suggested embedded with a colonial and post-colonial corporate world (Noyes, 2004).
The nomadism we would like to discuss in this special issue is not exclusively concerned with nomadism in space. What intrigues us also is the kind of nomadism that could inspire stories, represents alternative explanations of the ‘status quo’, and which do not recreate an antagonism between settling and moving. The point of such an enquiry would be to explain the transition – the change during the change – the nomadism through space and time (Low and Lawrence-Zúñiga, 2003).
During SCOS XXX conference (Barcelona, 2012), interest on nomadic practices of organising was discussed through a rich variety of discussions. We are inviting contributions for a special issue of Scripta Nova that explore the ways in which we organize through nomadism. The special issue intends to explore different relations between movement and organisational and work practices. In contemporary society where there is a shift towards the global and networked society, we want to discuss the implications this has on notions of working and organising, through ideas around social movement, hence the nomadic. We therefore want to contribute to this discussion by exploring ideas of, for example, the relation between travel and organizing (Roberson 2001), the nomadic and migration of images (Waller, 1998), the wisdom acquired through travelling (Nightingale, 2004) or the displacement through virtual communities (Driskell and Lyon, 2002).
Possible themes of nomadism as it intersects with organizing include, but are absolutely not limited to:
· How do concepts of organisations and work shift in displacement?
· Is the organisational actor becoming the digital image of a nomad? (Makimoto and Manners, 1997).
· Who we become when we move (emotion, wisdom)?
· How we imagine the nomadic leaders of the future?
· What might nomadic theories of organising and working be?
· How might we conceptualise the perpetually displaced nomad?
· How nomadism helps us understand changes of working and organising?
· How might we develop ideas around ‘the static panic’ (the panic to be attached to a place and not to be in permanent movement)?
We welcome papers from any disciplinary, paradigmatic or methodological perspective as long as they directly address the themes of movement, transition and transformation and its relationship to organization.
Deadline to submit papers: 28.03.13. Publication date: January 2014 (Submission of papers in English, to be published in Spanish or Portuguese. Translation from English to Spanish by Scripta Nova).
Papers should be submitted as e-mail attachments in Word to hugo.gaggiotti@uwe.ac.uk. Publication date is January 2014 (tbc).
Please ensure that you follow Scripta Nova house style (ISO 690), as outlined at http://www.fsport.uniba.sk/fileadmin/user_upload/editors/English/science/acta_facultatis/Bibliographic_references_and_citations_01.pdf
Papers should be between 8000 and 9000 words in length (without references and figures), in English and may be returned for shortening before consideration if the editors deem it appropriate.
Please also be aware that any images used in your submission must be your own, or where they are not you must already have permission to reproduce them in an academic journal. You should make this explicit in the submitted manuscript.
Please direct informal enquiries to Hugo Gaggiotti at hugo.gaggiotti@uwe.ac.uk
References:
Braidotti, R. (1994). Nomadic Subjects: embodiment and sexual difference in contemporary feminist theory. New York: Columbia University Press.
Czarniawska, B. (forthcoming). Nomadic work as life-story plot. Journal-of-Computer-Supported-Cooperative-Work.
Driskell, R.B., and Lyon, L. (2002). Are virtual communities true communities? Examining the environments and elements of community. City and Community, 1, pp. 373-390.
Gaggiotti, H. (2006). Un lugar en su sitio. Narrativas y organización cultural urbana en el espacio latinoamericano. Sevilla: Editorial JJ/Comunicación Social.
Latour, B. (2002). War of the Worlds. What about Peace? Chicago: Prickly Paradigm Press.
Low, S. M. and Lawrence-Zúñiga, D. 2003 (eds.). The Anthropology of Space and Place: Locating Culture. Malden, MA: Blackwell.
Makimoto, T. and Manners, D. (1997). Digital Nomad. Chichester: John Wiley
Nightingale, A.W. (2004). Spectacles of Truth in Classical Greek Philosophy: Theoria in its Cultural Context. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Noyes, J. (2004). Nomadism, nomadology, postcolonialism: By way of introduction, Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies, 6:2, 159-168
Palan, R. (2003) The Offshore World: Sovereign Markets, Virtual Places, and Nomad Millionaires. Ithaca, NY, and London: Cornell University Press.
Roberson, S. (2001). Defining Travel: Diverse Visions. Oxford, Mississippi: University of Mississippi Press.
Waller, M. (1998) Corporate nomads with the skill to step into the breach. The Times, 13 October: 31.
Item 2
Call for papers for Critical Finance Studies V Stockholm University School of Business 14-16 August 2013
The fifth Critical Finance Studies conference will be held at Stockholm University School of Business from August 14–16. This year we are again looking for contributions to our ongoing collaborative research project that seeks to engage finance in critically creative ways.
Although critical attention is regularly devoted to finance, it generally takes the form of a call for transparency, or the systemic repair and restructuring of a paradigm in need of a shift. While finance is clearly a societal domain ridden with crisis, our sense of critique embraces the possibility of risky confrontations with the external powers that drive finance, as well as with internal, ethical combats that impact on the critic’s own situation within academic discourses on finance. We are, therefore, calling for contributions that take into account the relationship of the critic to finance and to discourses on finance, including received values, moral codes, authoritarian knowledge, political correctness, academic manners, common sense, good will, opinion and implicit presuppositions. We also invite papers that approach finance through avenues that have been underexplored such as theology, philosophy, art, music, film, new media and television, to give just a few examples.
Authors interested in publishing a paper in a special edition of the journal Critical Perspectives on Accounting entitled Critical Finance Studies will have the opportunity to do so.
Please submit an abstract (no more than 500 words) to Thomas Bay (bay@fek.su.se) and Joyce Goggin (J.Goggin@uva.nl) no later than 1 May 2013.
Possible topics may include but are far from limited to:
· Finance, art and philosophy
· Theology of finance
· Finance and education
· Street finance
· Finance and ethics
· Financial imaginaries
· Finance and society
· Gambling and finance
· Finance and visualisation
· Over-indebtedness
· Finance and subjectivity
· Boundaries of finance
· Sustainable finance
· Finance and value
Extension of the deadline to submit papers for the special issue of Scripta Nova.
Given the requests to extend the submission deadline for the following SI, we are happy to announce we have decided to move it to 31 March 2013.
Call for papers
Special issue of Scripta Nova
Volume 17, issue 420, 2014
Nomadism and Organising
Guest editors: Hugo Gaggiotti, University of the West of England (United Kingdom), Monika Kostera, University of Warsaw (Poland) and Ricardo Bresler, Fundação Getulio Vargas (Brazil).
Mainstream western epistemologies and methodologies on organising persist in attempts to delineate and fix reality. Within social science our questions (to ‘research subjects’, ourselves and colleagues) often invite static answers: where are you from?; are you male or female?; how old are you?; how long have you had this job?; where do you feel most at home?; what is my epistemology?; are you a positivist, constructivist, interpretativist, postmodernist, etc., etc.? Offering one possible line of flight from such fixity, Rosi Braidotti (1994) suggests acknowledging nomadism as an existential condition.
Ideas around nomad+global are becoming exchangeable representations of a vocabulary that in contemporary capitalism has to be universally understood, like nomad+millionaire (Palan, 2003). Nevertheless, our perception is that nomad and global are concepts that not necessarily and always are associated with organising. We still imagine organising very static, located and practicing in a place inscribed in a space (Gaggiotti 2006), necessarily creating a sense of a community, in what Czarniawska and others (Czarniawska, forthcoming; Latour, 2002) have referred to as a deeply rooted modernist belief in spatial homogenization. But seems that nomadism create a sense of a community too (Waller, 1998) or serves to populate the imagery of a global community, a practice that some authors have suggested embedded with a colonial and post-colonial corporate world (Noyes, 2004).
The nomadism we would like to discuss in this special issue is not exclusively concerned with nomadism in space. What intrigues us also is the kind of nomadism that could inspire stories, represents alternative explanations of the ‘status quo’, and which do not recreate an antagonism between settling and moving. The point of such an enquiry would be to explain the transition – the change during the change – the nomadism through space and time (Low and Lawrence-Zúñiga, 2003).
During SCOS XXX conference (Barcelona, 2012), interest on nomadic practices of organising was discussed through a rich variety of discussions. We are inviting contributions for a special issue of Scripta Nova that explore the ways in which we organize through nomadism. The special issue intends to explore different relations between movement and organisational and work practices. In contemporary society where there is a shift towards the global and networked society, we want to discuss the implications this has on notions of working and organising, through ideas around social movement, hence the nomadic. We therefore want to contribute to this discussion by exploring ideas of, for example, the relation between travel and organizing (Roberson 2001), the nomadic and migration of images (Waller, 1998), the wisdom acquired through travelling (Nightingale, 2004) or the displacement through virtual communities (Driskell and Lyon, 2002).
Possible themes of nomadism as it intersects with organizing include, but are absolutely not limited to:
· How do concepts of organisations and work shift in displacement?
· Is the organisational actor becoming the digital image of a nomad? (Makimoto and Manners, 1997).
· Who we become when we move (emotion, wisdom)?
· How we imagine the nomadic leaders of the future?
· What might nomadic theories of organising and working be?
· How might we conceptualise the perpetually displaced nomad?
· How nomadism helps us understand changes of working and organising?
· How might we develop ideas around ‘the static panic’ (the panic to be attached to a place and not to be in permanent movement)?
We welcome papers from any disciplinary, paradigmatic or methodological perspective as long as they directly address the themes of movement, transition and transformation and its relationship to organization.
Deadline to submit papers: 28.03.13. Publication date: January 2014 (Submission of papers in English, to be published in Spanish or Portuguese. Translation from English to Spanish by Scripta Nova).
Papers should be submitted as e-mail attachments in Word to hugo.gaggiotti@uwe.ac.uk. Publication date is January 2014 (tbc).
Please ensure that you follow Scripta Nova house style (ISO 690), as outlined at http://www.fsport.uniba.sk/fileadmin/user_upload/editors/English/science/acta_facultatis/Bibliographic_references_and_citations_01.pdf
Papers should be between 8000 and 9000 words in length (without references and figures), in English and may be returned for shortening before consideration if the editors deem it appropriate.
Please also be aware that any images used in your submission must be your own, or where they are not you must already have permission to reproduce them in an academic journal. You should make this explicit in the submitted manuscript.
Please direct informal enquiries to Hugo Gaggiotti at hugo.gaggiotti@uwe.ac.uk
References:
Braidotti, R. (1994). Nomadic Subjects: embodiment and sexual difference in contemporary feminist theory. New York: Columbia University Press.
Czarniawska, B. (forthcoming). Nomadic work as life-story plot. Journal-of-Computer-Supported-Cooperative-Work.
Driskell, R.B., and Lyon, L. (2002). Are virtual communities true communities? Examining the environments and elements of community. City and Community, 1, pp. 373-390.
Gaggiotti, H. (2006). Un lugar en su sitio. Narrativas y organización cultural urbana en el espacio latinoamericano. Sevilla: Editorial JJ/Comunicación Social.
Latour, B. (2002). War of the Worlds. What about Peace? Chicago: Prickly Paradigm Press.
Low, S. M. and Lawrence-Zúñiga, D. 2003 (eds.). The Anthropology of Space and Place: Locating Culture. Malden, MA: Blackwell.
Makimoto, T. and Manners, D. (1997). Digital Nomad. Chichester: John Wiley
Nightingale, A.W. (2004). Spectacles of Truth in Classical Greek Philosophy: Theoria in its Cultural Context. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Noyes, J. (2004). Nomadism, nomadology, postcolonialism: By way of introduction, Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies, 6:2, 159-168
Palan, R. (2003) The Offshore World: Sovereign Markets, Virtual Places, and Nomad Millionaires. Ithaca, NY, and London: Cornell University Press.
Roberson, S. (2001). Defining Travel: Diverse Visions. Oxford, Mississippi: University of Mississippi Press.
Waller, M. (1998) Corporate nomads with the skill to step into the breach. The Times, 13 October: 31.
Item 2
Call for papers for Critical Finance Studies V Stockholm University School of Business 14-16 August 2013
The fifth Critical Finance Studies conference will be held at Stockholm University School of Business from August 14–16. This year we are again looking for contributions to our ongoing collaborative research project that seeks to engage finance in critically creative ways.
Although critical attention is regularly devoted to finance, it generally takes the form of a call for transparency, or the systemic repair and restructuring of a paradigm in need of a shift. While finance is clearly a societal domain ridden with crisis, our sense of critique embraces the possibility of risky confrontations with the external powers that drive finance, as well as with internal, ethical combats that impact on the critic’s own situation within academic discourses on finance. We are, therefore, calling for contributions that take into account the relationship of the critic to finance and to discourses on finance, including received values, moral codes, authoritarian knowledge, political correctness, academic manners, common sense, good will, opinion and implicit presuppositions. We also invite papers that approach finance through avenues that have been underexplored such as theology, philosophy, art, music, film, new media and television, to give just a few examples.
Authors interested in publishing a paper in a special edition of the journal Critical Perspectives on Accounting entitled Critical Finance Studies will have the opportunity to do so.
Please submit an abstract (no more than 500 words) to Thomas Bay (bay@fek.su.se) and Joyce Goggin (J.Goggin@uva.nl) no later than 1 May 2013.
Possible topics may include but are far from limited to:
· Finance, art and philosophy
· Theology of finance
· Finance and education
· Street finance
· Finance and ethics
· Financial imaginaries
· Finance and society
· Gambling and finance
· Finance and visualisation
· Over-indebtedness
· Finance and subjectivity
· Boundaries of finance
· Sustainable finance
· Finance and value