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CfP Crises of Meaning at the Fringes of Economy - CMS17

  • 1.  CfP Crises of Meaning at the Fringes of Economy - CMS17

    Posted 01-21-2017 10:17
    Dear colleagues,

    Apologies for cross-posting: A reminder of our call for papers: Crises of Meaning at the Fringes of Economy, for the Critical Management Studies conference (CMS) Britannia Adelphi Hotel, Liverpool, UK from July 3 – 5 and hosted by Edge Hill University, UK.

    We invite contributions that consider how 'crises of meaning' are contributing to the development of new frameworks for understanding work, particularly that work which takes place at the fringes of the traditional paid economy, such as work by those undertaking volunteering, creative and digital self-employment, or those in precarious work. Fields of interest include creative and digital labour, freelancing, self-employment and volunteering, the creative industries and community sharing economies of 'independent workers' (e.g. Uber, Deliveroo, AirBnB). We posit that crises are experienced, by many, as an everyday struggle in which the frameworks traditionally used to attribute meaning to labour and work have been fundamentally unsettled. 

    We welcome contributions on topics that may include (but are not limited to): 
    • Crises at the level of the community and the individual, especially related to employment in the 'creative class' and 'sharing economy' 
    • Valuing work: unpaid labour, hope labour and insecure conditions of employment 
    • Autonomy and dignity 
    • Spaces of work and their meaning or value (e.g. co-working, home working and working in virtual space) 
    • Boundaries and interrelations of work and non-work (e.g. creative labour, technology and the right to disconnect, playbour, gamification, privacy) 
    • Emotions and affect in relation to crises (e.g. 'crises of happiness' & narratives of disappointment) 
    • Class, gender, race, embodiment, emotions and materiality of labour at the fringes of society 
    More information in the attached pdf - we look forward to your submissions! Please send them to D.Brewis@Kingston.ac.uk 

    Best wishes,
    Deborah

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    Deborah Brewis
     
    Associate Fellow, Institute of Advanced Study, University of Warwick
    Lecturer in Organisational Behaviour, Kingston Business School
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