Dear colleagues,
Apologies for cross-posting.
A reminder of our call for papers: Emotions, objects and meaning in organizations, 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 objects, emotions, and practices, embedded in knowledge work, are interrelated and how people make sense of these relations in the organisational context.
Fields of interest include emotions in organisations from a variety of critical perspectives, looking for new directions which explore how objects in organisations become associated with emotion and affect. These include (but not limited to):
○ Emotions and affect: emotional objects, 'sociability' of emotions between objects.
○ Clothing: Emotions related to clothing associated with gendered, ethnic or religious social categories; clothing and power relations; clothing and the body; uniforms and office wear.
○ Technology: IT, the internet, mobile devices and wearable technology; organisation of emotions, affect and the body through technology.
○ Materiality: the relation between emotions, socio-materiality, power and control.
○ Bodily emotional engagement with objects: touch and sensations; emotional impressions on the body.
○ Objects, emotions, and leadership practices: the role of objects in shaping leaders, their work practices and emotions.
○ Exploring a range of 'positive' and 'negative' emotions: happiness, joy, achievement; anger, frustration, disappointment; enchantment and disenchantment; problematizing and exploring the distinction between positive and negative emotions.
Lecturer in Organisation Studies
Department of Organisation, Work and Technology
Lancaster University Management School
Lancaster University
Lancaster
LA1 4YX
UK