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  • 1.  CFP - GENDER, WORK AND ORGANIZATION

    Posted 05-26-2006 05:41
    Hi all,
    Below is a call for papers for a special issue of "Gender, Work and Organization".  Please remember to reply to the address in the message - not to hit the reply button here.
    Have a great weekend,
    Bobbie
     
    CALL FOR PAPERS FOR A SPECIAL ISSUE OF GENDER, WORK AND ORGANIZATION
    Judith Butler and Organization Theory

    Special Issue Editors: Janet Borgerson (University of Exeter), Karen
    Dale (University of Leicester) and Melissa Tyler (Loughborough
    University).

    Although often critical of legitimating institutions, Judith Butler's
    thought-provoking work has rarely discussed organizational issues per
    se, yet engaging her insights and concepts in the analysis of work and
    organization can often be productive and inspiring, whether one
    ultimately agrees with her or not (Borgerson, 2005). Key themes in
    Butler's writing - including her theory of performativity, her
    critique of the 'heterosexual matrix', her analysis of the
    materialization of gender and her recent emphasis on the politics
    of 'undoing gender' (Butler, 2004) - all have important and
    provocative implications for the ways in which we think about, and
    engage with, organizations.

    Often thought of as one of the founders of queer theory, Butler is
    perhaps best known for her book Gender Trouble (Butler, 1990/2000),
    premised upon a performative ontology of gender. Here, and elsewhere,
    her work draws on and develops insights from post-structuralism,
    phenomenology, feminist theory, existentialism, anthropology, literary
    theory and psychoanalysis. Yet important though her emphasis on gender
    performativity is for our thinking about gender and work, a
    preoccupation with this particular theme has tended to overshadow
    other aspects of her writing, particularly her commitment to
    phenomenology, and to a critical analysis of the materialization of
    gender. With this in mind, we invite participants to use this special
    issue as an opportunity to engage with the full implications of
    Butler's writing for the ways in which we make sense of, and enact,
    gender, organization and work.

    Please contact the guest editors if you wish to discuss an idea or
    proposal for a paper: email Janet on J.L.Borgerson@exeter.ac.uk ,
    Karen on k.dale@le.ac.uk  or Melissa on m.j.tyler@lboro.ac.uk .
    Abstracts or outline proposals should be sent to the editors by 31st
    October 2006 and complete papers (not under review elsewhere) should
    be emailed to all three editors by 31st March 2007. Please also copy
    final submissions to the editorial assistant Annie Dempsey
    (gwo.journal@mngt.keele.ac.uk ). Final papers should be formatted
    according to the submission guidelines for the journal. For full
    details, please consult the Gender, Work and Organization website
    http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/journal.asp?ref=0968-6673&site=1


  • 2.  CFP - Gender, Work and Organization

    Posted 09-03-2006 02:54
    Hi all,
    I hope you had a good summer.  Now it's time to get back to work.  Here's a call for papers that might interest you.
    Have a good weekend,
    Bobbie
     
    Bobbie Turniansky
    GDO list manager
    bobbie@erez.org.il
     
     

    Gender, Work and Organization
    5th international interdisciplinary conference, 27th – 29th June 2007
    Call for Abstracts
    Gender and Organization in Popular Culture

    Stream Convenors
    Mary Phillips, University of Bristol, UK
    Alison Pullen, University of Technology, Sydney
    Carl Rhodes, University of Technology, Sydney
    Ann Rippin, University of Bristol, UK

    Whether it be in television, the cinema, popular novels, magazines,
    advertisements or the other myriad mass media in which popular culture
    can be located, social representations of gender relations are
    dramatically illustrated. In many cases, the site for such
    representations is organized work. It is only recently, however, that
    research has turned its attention to such issues.  While there are
    some exemplary contributions, the critical possibilities of studying
    gender and organizations in popular culture are very much nascent. 
    This stream seeks to provide an arena through which this area of study
    can be further developed.

    In deploying the term popular culture, we are referring to forms of
    entertainment that are mass produced and widely consumed.  Popular
    culture is a contemporary phenomenon enabled by industrialization,
    urbanization and mass communication technologies.  Commonly contrasted
    against traditional folk culture and high culture, popular culture is
    usually considered to include media such as popular music, television,
    cinema, literature, and magazines.  For those who study organizations,
    popular culture is of interest because it contains within it many
    representations of organized work.  For this reason, some in
    organization studies have turned their attention to the investigation
    of forms of popular culture as diverse as science fiction films,
    popular music, detective novels, children's books, television
    cartoons, and blockbuster movies.  Across cultural studies, media
    studies and gender studies, interrogations of gender in popular
    culture have developed into a sophisticated analysis and critique. 
    Popular culture emerges here as a site in and through which gender
    constructions, relations and politics are played out.

    In this stream we seek papers that can be located between and beyond
    the study of gender in popular culture, and the study if organizations
    in popular culture. More specifically, we are interested in papers
    that provide a critical analysis of the way that gender in
    organizations is represented, constructed, subverted, and re-imagined
    in popular culture.  Whether it be an analysis of the representations
    of gender in organizations, an examination of the consumption of
    gendered symbols and stories, an interrogation of the gendered
    production popular culture by organizations, or theoretical
    considerations of gendered organizations and popular culture, the
    primary aim is to analyse the relations between gender, organization
    and popular culture. In pursuing this aim, popular culture can be
    regarded as multiple and ambivalent in the way that it connects with
    gender, organizations and gendered organizations.  Popular culture
    cannot here be analyzed as a monological system portraying or
    perpetuating a singular perspective on gender and organizations. 
    Instead there are multiple and diverse possibilities for inequality
    and equality, oppression and liberation, materiality and
    representation, silence and voice, marginalization and dominance.
    Areas of interest which draw on diverse theoretical perspectives
    include, but are not limited to:

    The representation of gender and sexual stereotypes in popular culture
    The relation between the gendered production and consumption of popular culture
    The critique of masculine dominance in the production of popular culture
    Critical, resistant and subversive portrayals of gender in popular culture
    Analysis of popular culture as it is specifically targeted at women, men, boys and girls
    The representation of men and women as managers
    The representation of sexuality in organizations
    The productive use of popular culture, in its consumption, to challenge gendered hegemonies
    Critiques of gender neutrality in theoretical approaches to popular culture and organization
    The representation of sexualized and gendered bodies
    The subversion of gender inequalities in organizations
    The relation between gender, organizational forms and work practices
    Humour and parody in relation to gendered identities
    Feminist politics in popular culture
    Methodological discussion of ways and means of writing about and with popular culture

    Abstracts should be one page, single space and of approximately 500
    words (excluding any references) giving title of paper, keywords,
    contact details including your name, institutional affiliation,
    mailing address, telephone number and e-mail address. Submission date
    for abstracts is 1st November 2006. All abstracts will be peer
    reviewed. Please note that due to restrictions of space, multiple
    submissions by the same author will not be timetabled. New and young
    scholars with 'work in progress' papers are welcomed. Abstracts should
    be emailed to     Carl.Rhodes@uts.edu.au