Dear Colleagues and Friends,
We would like to invite you to submit an abstract to our conference
stream
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'Development and Globalisation: Organising Global Concerns for Security
and Participation'
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at the Fifth International Critical Management Studies Conference (CMS
5) taking place from 11-13 July 2007 in Manchester, UK.
You can find the more detailed call for papers below. The deadline to
submit an abstract has been extended to the 20 November due to technical
problems occurring on the CMS website during the last weeks.
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
devandglob@gmail.com
for further details on the conference stream. More information on the
CMS 5 conference can be found at
www.cms5.org.
We look forward to receiving your abstracts and welcoming you in
Manchester!
Best regards,
Bettina Wittneben
Sadhvi Dar
Stream title: Development and Globalisation: organising global concerns
for security and participation
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 organization of development
and globalisation.
We hope to capture how the current political climate has been absorbed
in our academic debates on development and globalisation and how these
debates have been flavoured by our understandings of human security. We
wish to explore the links between critical management studies and
development and globalisation issues. 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.
Discourse on human security is often directly linked to political
pressure to accept a society that is constrained by an apparatus of
control. Today, disruptions in our personal space, limitations to our
civil rights and additional fees and taxes are often justified by an
urgent need for security. Is our life becoming less secure or can these
measures enhance security? Who decides what constitutes threat and
security?
While concerns for security are making us anxious and letting us accept
limitations to our rights and freedoms, participation in democratic
processes seems to require the opposite capabilities. Are participation
and security becoming antonyms or is participation a main ingredient for
establishing a secure society? Have the processes of public
participation evolved to apply to all aspects of our lives?
Call for Papers
Delegates may want to consider the following themes:
* Organising Human Security
Autonomy, freedom, choice and security. These are ideas and concepts
that preoccupy social theorists - but how can we integrate them together
in an understanding of the managerial design and execution of
development projects and efforts to globalize? First World powers are
now pushing for rapid "democratization" in a bid to win the "war on
terror". As established international discourses, development and
globalization are concepts under threat of becoming dangerously hollow
rhetoric, overshadowing the inherently
political nature of human security.
* Organising Participation
How do our changing understandings of democracy relate to the design and
management of development practice? How have these understandings been
integrated into discourses of sustainable futures, climate change and
gender? Participation can be interpreted as accepting each other's ideas
and respecting each other in the most fundamental ways. What anarchical,
truly participatory structures have been tested and found adequate?
* The Politics of Representation
Representation is inherent to human communication and it is a powerful
discursive tool used to legitimate certain practices and ways of
knowing. How is this way of communicating operationalised within
development organisations and through efforts to globalise? How are
these operations relational to managerial discourses? How are
spontaneity, argument and polemics impinged by misrepresentation? What
are the implications of misrepresentation on a participatory process?
* Metaphors of Practice
Focusing more explicitly on the use of discourse in organisational
practices, this session explores the emergence of metaphors in
developmental work and globalisation debates. Delegates are asked to
explore what they feel to be enduring metaphors or archetypical "master"
metaphors in development that accent and shape work practices. What new
metaphors have surfaced in the recent past and how have they been
integrated into our existing understandings of what development is or
should be?
Delegates are encouraged to submit abstracts that reflect on or
explicitly engage with the three themes outlined above. We will consider
all submissions and actively promote an interdisciplinary approach to
understanding development and globalisation issues. In addition, we want
to create a space to discuss different methodological approaches in
tackling these themes.
Open Workshop
Following the success of our workshop with Professor Arturo Escobar at
the last CMS conference, we are currently securing a visit from another
distinguished academic to contribute to our stream (guest speaker to be
advertised soon). All Development and Globalisation presenters will have
reserved seating for this special event, which is open to all conference
delegates.
Details of the Convenors:
Dr Sadhvi Dar
Judge Business School
University of Cambridge
s.dar@jbs.cam.ac.uk
Dr Bettina Wittneben
Rotterdam School of Management
Erasmus University
bwittneben@rsm.nl
Timeline for paper submission:
Abstracts to Convenors (e-mail) - extended to 20 November 2006!!
Decisions on acceptance/rejection communicated to authors - 14 February
2007
Full papers to Convenors (e-mail) - 28 April 2007
Abstracts must contain the following information:
* Authors (including affiliation and contact details, with lead author
clearly indicated)
* Stream to which the abstract is submitted
* Title
* Body text
* Maximum 300 words
All abstracts must be single-spaced, prepared using at least an 11-point
Ariel font, with a left margin at least 1 inch for binding and be
formatted for A4 paper (21cm * 29.7 cm).