We’ve talked about his many times, 
- First, this sub-theme will explore the dynamic practices of ‘devising’. What forms of reasoning, reflexivity and responsibility are at play and how are they distributed across markets and other sites?
- Second, it considers how things become objects of quantification, judgement and valuation. What gets quantified, calculated, judged and valued as part of this ‘devising work’, by whom and for what purposes.
The 15th International Globelics Conference
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Darkside of Innovation
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Panel – Who should benefit from organizational research?
Posted: 3 August 2015 Filed under: Uncategorized Leave a commentI am delighted to announce a virtual panel on “Who should benefit from organizational research?” This panel was inspired by an Editorial Essay written by Gerald F Davis in Administrative Science Quarterly entitled “What Is Organizational Research For?” Professor Davis is editor of the Administrative Science Quarterly, the Wilbur K. Pierpont Collegiate Professor of Management at the Ross School of Business and a professor of sociology at the University of Michigan.
We have reproduced an extract of that essay here, and invited responses from five leading organization studies scholars.
Today we post Jerry’s article along with the first response, from Steven Ackroyd, emeritus professor, Lancaster University Management School.
In each of the following days this week, we’ll post a response from the following scholars:
Nancy DiTomaso, Professor of Management and Global Business at Rutgers Business School—Newark and New Brunswick.
Paul Hirsch, the James L. Allen Professor…
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Vinciene Despret, Eduardo Viveiros de Castro e Ailton Krenak
Posted: 23 April 2015 Filed under: Uncategorized Leave a commentEm nosso canal do youtube, agora, as falas de Ailton Krenak, Eduardo Viveiros de Castro e Vinciane Despret! Lembrando que estamos no mês da Mobilização Nacional Indígena e que o volume da coleção Encontros, da Azougue, dedicado ao grande Ailton Krenak, com prefácio de Eduardo Viveiros de Castro, acabou de ser lançado e está disponível para compra na página da editora no Facebook!
On ethnography, collaboration and social studies of finance besides performativity. An interview with Annelise Riles
Posted: 15 March 2015 Filed under: Uncategorized Leave a comment
Annelise Riles’s (Professor of Law in Far East Legal Studies and Professor of Anthropology at Cornell) work is characterized by an intense and productive dialogue between law and anthropology. This results in a form of research which, simultaneously, brings legal reasoning to the center of the ethnographer’s concern (as an object of social scientific investigation) and makes this same reasoning a productive tool for anthropological inquiry. In this conversation carried out right after the workshop ‘Markets for Collective Concerns?’ held last December at Copenhagen Business School, Riles discusses her latest book on her long-term ethnographic work with financial regulators and lawyers in Japan, Collateral Knowledge, and her more recent articles on collaborative research. The interview was conducted by José Ossandón and Gustavo Onto helped elaborate the questions.
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Call for abstracts: working group on sustainable practices, consumption and devices
Posted: 27 October 2014 Filed under: Uncategorized Leave a comment*apologies for cross-posting*
Nordic Environmental Social Science (NESS), Trondheim, Norway june 9-11, 2015. More info: http://ness2015.rural.no/
The world faces an increasingly complex mix of environmental challenges. Some are anchored in local contexts; others are highly global in character. Climate changes, resource depletion and de-forestation and three obvious examples, but many others are equally relevant. Many of these challenges are closely related to consumption. In some cases, the consumption of specific products and general consumption patterns add to the challenges. In other cases, new modes of consumption or the consumption of specific goods or services are seen as a pathway towards a solution. Is sustainable consumption possible? If it is, how do we achieve it? How do we define sustainable consumption? How can we explain patterns of non-sustainable consumption and conceptualize some sort of transition pathway towards sustainability?
Consumption is intimately linked to the notion of practice. Almost all everyday and household practices are associated with the consumption of energy and material resources. For instance, showering takes water, soap and shampoo. Many practices are tightly associated with environmental problems. Certain hunting practices are associated with biodiversity loss, while practices associated with CO2 intensive modes of travel are associated with climate change.
This working group is also interested in the role of technologies in transforming or sustaining practices. As an example, there is currently much hope that new technological gadgets can help establish more sustainable consumption and change practices. An example is found in the hype surrounding “smart” energy technologies. Through providing information and control to users, these should both lower the consumption rates of electricity and change a number of practices that in part depends on electricity consumption.
This working group welcomes empirical and theoretical contributions that stimulate a broad discussion on the relationship between sustainability, consumption, practices and technologies. This includes, but is not limited to the following topics:
· Discussions on consumption, practices or the relationship between them in a sustainability perspective, including studies on the possibilities for promoting sustainable consumption.
· Contributions theorizing on sustainability. What is/should this concept be?
· Practices, consumption and sustainability transitions.
· Empirical discussions on specific technological devices and their role in questions of practice change, sustainability and consumption.
Abstracts of no more than 250 words are to be submitted to the organizers by November 1st.
Organizers:
Tomas Moe Skjølsvold: tomas.skjolsvold@ntnu.no
Toke Haunstrup Christensen: thc@sbi.aau.dk
Tomas Moe Skjølsvold,
Post doc. dept. of interdisciplinary studies of culture
& H2020 Process leader NTNU/CenSES
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Interdisciplinary Nineteenth Century Studies CfP
Posted: 23 October 2014 Filed under: Uncategorized Leave a commentCall for Proposals: Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies (INCS) 2015
MOBILITIES
Hosted by the Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA April 16-19, 2015
Keynote Speakers: Philippa Levine (UT-Austin) and Priscilla Wald (Duke)
The nineteenth century has long been understood as an era of industrial growth, scientific discovery, technological innovation, and imperial expansion. Such sweeping global transformations relied on a complex web of relations between humans and machines, individuals and systems, ideas and practices, as well as more efficient and frequent movement across increasingly connected networks of space. From railroad travel to advances in shipping, from the movement of immigrants, enslaved laborers, scientists and colonial settlers, to the circulation of ideas, bodies, and/as commodities, nineteenth-century mobilities challenged and reconfigured the very constitution of subjects, nations, and cultures across the globe. We seek papers that investigate the various mobilities and exchanges of the nineteenth century. What did it mean to be mobile (or immobile) in this period? How were political, scientific, and cultural ideas exchanged in new ways? How did people maintain and create new affiliations? How might notions of a more mobile sense of nature, the world, and the self influence our understanding of this era?
Specific topics are listed on the attached call for papers.
Deadline: November 15, 2014. For individual papers, send 250-word proposals; for panels, send individual proposals plus a 250-word panel description. Please include a one-page cv with your name, affiliation, and email address. Proposals that are interdisciplinary in method or panels that involve multiple disciplines are especially welcome. Send questions and proposals to narin.hassan@lmc.gatech.edu or carol.senf@lmc.gatech.edu
Cfp_EGOS Sub-theme 25: Devising Markets and Other Valuation Sites
Posted: 4 October 2014 Filed under: Uncategorized Leave a commentDevising Markets and Other Valuation Sites. Convened by Liz McFall, Claes-Frederik Helgesson and Pascale Trompette. Invites papers exploring how markets and other valuation sites are ‘devised’ through the interaction of practices, processes and technologies. The aim is to further develop understanding of the role of knowledge and devices in shaping economies and markets in two ways.
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laser cats and mary parker follett
Posted: 4 October 2014 Filed under: Uncategorized Leave a comment
When I teach my sociology of organizations courses, I always include an underrecognized org theorist, Mary Parker Follett,* who advocated for “power-with” instead of “power over.” Follett argued that voting and other more conventional decision-making approaches generate dissatisfactory outcomes, in which one or more parties lose. She suggested that groups engage in a consensus-oriented decision-making process to identify what parties really want and thus generate novel solutions. However, providing real-life examples of this process is not easy, particularly since many decisions are made hierarchically or when one party tires of the decision-making process.
But, thanks to the Internet, here is one light-hearted example, starring an improbable combination of lasers, Mr. Bigglesworth the cat, and a Chihuahua:
Party A: High school student Draven Rodriguez wanted a memorable photo for the school yearbook. His desired portrait is definitely awesome:
Awesome portrait taken by Vincent Giodano/Trinactia Photography
Party B: However, the…
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this is not a post about ello
Posted: 30 September 2014 Filed under: Uncategorized Leave a commentInteresting…
This is not a post about Ello. Because Ello is so last Friday. But the rapid rise of and backlash against upstart social media network Ello (if you haven’t been paying attention, see here, here, here) reminded me of something I was wondering a while back.
Lots of people are dissatisfied with Facebook — ad-heavy, curated in a way the user has little control over, privacy-poor. And it looks like Twitter, which really needs bring in more revenue, is taking steps to move in the same direction: algorithmic display of tweets, with the ultimate goal of making users more valuable to advertisers.
The question is, what’s the alternative? There have been a lot of social network flavors of the month, built on a variety of business models. Some of them, like Google Plus, are owned by already-large companies that would be subject to similar business pressures as Facebook and…
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New Combinations 