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Development and Globalisation CALL FOR PAPERS

  • 1.  Development and Globalisation CALL FOR PAPERS

    Posted 08-01-2006 07:51
    Dear Colleagues and Friends,

    We would like to invite you to submit an abstract to our stream

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    'Development and Globalisation: Organising Global Concerns for Security and Participation'
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    at the Fifth International Critical Management Studies Conference (CMS 5) taking place from 11-13 July 2007 in Manchester, UK.

    You can find the more detailed call for papers below. Please note that abstracts are due on 6 November 2006, which is coming up really quickly! We welcome papers from researchers and practitioners alike from diverse backgrounds and take pride in supporting junior scholars. Please do not hesitate to contact us at our stream email address devandglob@gmail.com">devandglob@gmail.com for further information on our conference stream. More information on the CMS 5 conference can be found at www.cms5.org.

    We look forward to receiving your abstracts and welcoming you in Manchester!

    Best regards,

    Bettina Wittneben
    Sadhvi Dar

    Stream title: Development and Globalisation: organising global concerns for security and participation

    Stream Description
    This stream provides a stimulating and exciting space to discuss development and globalisation issues within a critical management studies context. We are inviting papers from diverse world views and academic fields to engage with current political questions that are central to understanding the international organization of development and globalisation.

    We hope to capture how the current political climate has been absorbed in our academic debates on development and globalisation and how these debates have been flavoured by our understandings of human security. We wish to explore the links between critical management studies and development and globalisation issues. These links should be central to all delegates who participate in this stream. However – the main precept from which we launch our call for papers, is for a committed and truly interdisciplinary approach to formulating theoretical assumptions and designing empirical studies.

    Discourse on human security is often directly linked to political pressure to accept a society that is constrained by an apparatus of control. Today, disruptions in our personal space, limitations to our civil rights and additional fees and taxes are often justified by an urgent need for security. Is our life becoming less secure or can these measures enhance security? Who decides what constitutes threat and security?

    While concerns for security are making us anxious and letting us accept limitations to our rights and freedoms, participation in democratic processes seems to require the opposite capabilities. Are participation and security becoming antonyms or is participation a main ingredient for establishing a secure society? Have the processes of public participation evolved to apply to all aspects of our lives?

    Call for Papers

    Delegates may want to consider the following themes:

    * Organising Human Security

    Autonomy, freedom, choice and security. These are ideas and concepts that preoccupy social theorists – but how can we integrate them together in an understanding of the managerial design and execution of development projects and efforts to globalize? First World powers are now pushing for rapid "democratization" in a bid to win the "war on terror". As established international discourses, development and globalization are concepts under threat of becoming dangerously hollow rhetoric, overshadowing the inherently political nature of human security.

    * Organising Participation

    How do our changing understandings of democracy relate to the design and management of development practice? How have these understandings been integrated into discourses of sustainable futures, climate change and gender? Participation can be interpreted as accepting each other's ideas and respecting each other in the most fundamental ways. What anarchical, truly participatory structures have been tested and found adequate?

    * The Politics of Representation

    Representation is inherent to human communication and it is a powerful discursive tool used to legitimate certain practices and ways of knowing. How is this way of communicating operationalised within development organisations and through efforts to globalise? How are these operations relational to managerial discourses? How are spontaneity, argument and polemics impinged by misrepresentation? What are the implications of misrepresentation on a participatory process?

    * Metaphors of Practice

    Focusing more explicitly on the use of discourse in organisational practices, this session explores the emergence of metaphors in developmental work and globalisation debates. Delegates are asked to explore what they feel to be enduring metaphors or archetypical "master" metaphors in development that accent and shape work practices. What new metaphors have surfaced in the recent past and how have they been integrated into our existing understandings of what development is or should be?

    Delegates are encouraged to submit abstracts that reflect on or explicitly engage with the three themes outlined above. We will consider all submissions and actively promote an interdisciplinary approach to understanding development and globalisation issues. In addition, we want to create a space to discuss different methodological approaches in tackling these themes.

    Open Workshop
    Following the success of our workshop with Professor Arturo Escobar at the last CMS conference, we are currently securing a visit from another distinguished academic to contribute to our stream (guest speaker to be advertised soon). All Development and Globalisation presenters will have reserved seating for this special event, which is open to all conference delegates.

    Details of the Convenors:

    Dr Sadhvi Dar
    Judge Business School
    University of Cambridge
    s.dar@jbs.cam.ac.uk"> s.dar@jbs.cam.ac.uk

    Dr Bettina Wittneben
    Rotterdam School of Management
    Erasmus University
    b.wittneben@rsm.nl">b.wittneben@rsm.nl

    Timeline for paper submission:

    Abstracts to Convenors (e-mail) - 6 November 2006

    Decisions on acceptance/rejection communicated to authors - 14 February 2007

    Full papers to Convenors (e-mail) - 28 April 2007

    Abstracts must contain the following information:

    * Authors (including affiliation and contact details, with lead author clearly indicated)
    * Stream to which the abstract is submitted
    * Title
    * Body text
    * Maximum 300 words

    All abstracts must be single-spaced, prepared using at least an 11-point Ariel font, with a left margin at least 1 inch for binding and be formatted for A4 paper (21cm * 29.7 cm).