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We invite you to join us for a PDW session on researching/theorizing and
teaching in the Anthropocene.
After Climate Denying? Possibilities for/in the Anthropocene (PDW)
Scheduled: Saturday, Aug 5 2017 11:30AM - 1:00PM at Atlanta Marriott
Marquis in Marquis M101
Sponsor(s): CMS and ONE
Starting from climate change, a central issue of concern at a planetary
scale, this workshop aims to develop capabilities for critical
interpretations of what appears as normal in management and society
today and, in this context, to generate radical alternatives directly
addressing shared desires to change the situation. Specifically, the
workshop focuses attention on the Anthropocene, taking seriously that we
may have entered a geological epoch where humankind is foregrounded as a
geological force affecting all life on the planet -climate change as
part of it- and focusing on imagining radical alternatives for living in
this context. As we see it, this new epoch requires radically different
modes of engaging with what we think of as researching/theorizing,
teaching, and practicing in organization studies. Said differently, we
are facing a totally new enterprise today, one that forces us to abandon
how we think of and enact “our field.” In this new reality, it is
critical to envision, experiment, propose, pursue, and overturn.
Presenters and participants will interact to contribute to these aims by
collectively creating a space for experimentation, imagining that
“climate denying” is untenable (no matter who the deniers are) and that
the Anthropocene is where we are at now. The core of the workshop is
animated by a variety of arguments, ideas and examples coming out of
several theoretical and meta-theoretical assumptions but meeting at a
common point: the urgency of changing current assumptions about our ways
of life and living, and what to do about it.
Facilitator: Seray Ergene, U. of Massachusetts Amherst
Facilitator: Marta B. Calás, U. of Massachusetts Amherst
Facilitator: Linda Smircich, U. of Massachusetts Amherst
Facilitator: John M. Jermier, U. of South Florida
Facilitator: Christopher Wright, U. of Sydney
Facilitator: Daniel Nyberg, U. of Sydney
Facilitator: Gail Whiteman, Lancaster U.
Facilitator: Bobby Banerjee, City U. London
Facilitator: Andrew J. Hoffman, U. of Michigan
Facilitator: P Devereaux Jennings, U. of Alberta
Facilitator: Paul Shrivastava, Penn State U.
Pre-registration is required for this session. To register online,
please visit
https://secure.aom.org/PDWReg.
For information on the session, please contact Seray Ergene
(
sergene@som.umass.edu).
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Seray Ergene
PhD. Candidate in Organization Studies
Isenberg School of Management
University of Massachusetts-Amherst
Amherst, MA 01003 USA