[SSC] New issue of ephemera on the contradictions and ambiguities of self-management

[Amsler, Sarah]

Hello all,

I thought this might be of some interest.

Best,
Sarah


Governing Work through Self-Management
ephemera: theory & politics in organization
Volume 11, number 2
http://www.ephemeraweb.org
Edited by Thomas Lopdrup-Hjorth, Marius Gudmand-Høyer, Pia Bramming and
Michael Pedersen

While self-management has emerged as a robust way of getting things done
in present-day work life and organizations, it also presents itself as a
conception of considerable multivalency and ambiguity. Self-management
has been called upon both, to intensify capitalist work practices and to
overturning their exploitation, thus expressing at the very same time
our fears of subordination and our hopes for emancipation.

The aim of this special issue is to scrutinize this ambiguity and the
multivalence pertaining to self-management. A starting point of this
endeavor is to consider that a common feature of understanding
self-management as an essential piece is that it should either intensify
or help overturn capitalist explication. Self-management, in both
instances, appears to be both a problem and a solution relating to a
variety of managerial, organizational, and existential concerns.

In the issue, the complexities of managing work and organizations
through self-management are analyzed as they show up in relation to fast
food restaurants- workers, teachers and pupils in schools, artists,
organic farmers, and health promotion experts.


CONTENTS

editorial
Thomas Lopdrup-Hjorth, Marius Gudmand-Høyer, Pia Bramming and Michael
Pedersen
Governing work through self-management

articles
Christian Maravelias
The managementization of everyday life – Workplace health promotion and
the management of self-managing employees

Alexander Paulsson
Resisting self-management? On the possibility of dissolving oneself in
fast food restaurants

Helle Bjerg and Dorthe Staunæs
Self-management through shame – uniting governmentality studies and the
“affective turn”

Diane Skinner
Fearless speech: practising Parrhesia in a self-managing community

notes
Sverre Raffnsøe
The Five Obstructions: experiencing the human side of enterprise

Jørgen Leth, Sverre Raffnsøe and Peder Holm-Pedersen
Tripping up the perfect

Mary Jo Hatch
Organizing obstructions to manage organizations creatively: reflecting
The Five Obstructions

roundtable
Pia Bramming, Marius Gudmand-Høyer, Dan Kärreman, Charlotta Levay,
Michael Pedersen, Sverre Raffnsøe, Jens Rennstam, André Spicer and Sverre
Spoelstra
Management of self-management

reviews
Joakim Kromann and Thomas Klem Andersen
Parrēsia: the problem of truth

Alan Bradshaw
Amidst the wreckage


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Dr Sarah S Amsler
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