What to do about "The Human" in Organization Studies?: Thinking/saying/ doing with the Anthropocene, pandemics, and thereaftersShow others and affiliations
2023 (English)In: A Research Agenda for Organization Studies, Feminisms and New Materialisms, Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd. , 2023, p. 177-194Chapter in book (Other academic)
Abstract [en]
Each of the chapters in this volume, from the introduction to this end(ing), engaged in a conversation about producing knowledge in, about, with "organization studies" at a time when we (us, the human inhabitants of this Earth) are facing calamitous conditions, probably leading to our/its destruction, and (some more than others) are wondering what is to be done. As members of the management and organization studies (MOS) scholarly community, all the authors in this project are deeply concerned about the "knowledge" our common field is producing as "legitimate", for it seems not only inadequate for addressing those calamitous conditions but also that this kind of knowledge may be implicated in reproducing the harms we all decry. The aim here has not been to critique the field on the basis of what it produces but to acknowledge conditions perpetuating the production of those forms of knowledge more generally, and to offer positive alternatives which may make a difference in what is produced, perhaps contributing to a better world‚ over and over again. The message this chapter and all other chapters hope to convey is the possibility of "thinking, saying and doing otherwise". But can we truly question the very notion of "the human" supporting "legitimate knowledge"? Can we truly focus on producing processual knowledge with indefinite aims? In other words, is the becoming of an organization studies produced with feminist new materialisms possible? Responding to those questions, and following the original proposal for this volume, this chapter is the voice of the collectivity articulating 'the-world-and-beyond' as envisioned in each of the prior chapters. Taking this approach resonates as well with new materialisms: "'a doing with' which cannot be a 'doing alone' -more like a world of on-going assembling".
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd. , 2023. p. 177-194
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Economics and Business
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URN: urn:nbn:se:mdh:diva-63994DOI: 10.4337/9781800881273.00014Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85165437260ISBN: 9781800881273 (print)ISBN: 9781800881266 (print)OAI: oai:DiVA.org:mdh-63994DiVA, id: diva2:1788599
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