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Dear Colleagues and Friends,

We would like to invite you to submit an abstract to

Stream 25: Development and Globalization – Human Rights and Organizing Democracy
at the Sixth International Critical Management Studies Conference (CMS 6) taking place from 13 - 15 July 2009 at Warwick Business School, UK

You can find the more detailed call for papers below. Please note that abstracts are due on 1 November 2008. 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 for further information on our conference stream. More information on the CMS 6 conference can be found at http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/wbs/conf/cms2009/.

Best regards,

Sadhvi Dar, Queen Mary University of London, UK
Bettina B.F. Wittneben, University of Oxford, UK

Bobby S. Banerjee, University of Western Sydney, Australia

Stream title:

Development and Globalization – Human Rights and Organizing Democracy

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 organisation of development and globalisation.

We hope to capture how the current political climate has been absorbed in our academic debates on global development issues and how these debates have been flavoured by our understandings of human rights and democracy. We wish to explore the links between critical management studies and contemporary events, discussions and ideas about security, war, democracy, poverty and globalisation. 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.

We are told time and time again that we live in a globalizing world, and that this presents great risks as well as great opportunities to our lives. What has unfolded, however, is an inherently complex arrangement of power relations, discourses and institutions that set the agenda for how these risks are envisioned and how they are played out in the international arena. The workshop organizers relate these complexities to the problematic concepts of human rights and democracy. Such ideological motifs are sustained by a belief in the individual and the protection of private rights. They are also sustained by global efforts to transport these political ideas to other locations – indeed – to any location (geographic, economic, political, social) that steps up to the mark and embraces "liberal democracy". The organizers identify this globalizing human rights agenda as highly contentious and seek to develop a managerial critique of these issues.

We invite critical scholars to further explore the links between management studies and politics, international relations, political economy, security studies and other connected fields that problematize security and democracy as central organizing principles in current political discourses.

Themes

The stream convenors suggest engaging with the following themes but contributions are invited from other related fields as well:

Issues:

The political economy of human security

The geopolitics of the state: space and sovereignty

Capitalist institutions and war

Marketing ethics and the necro-economies

Democracy and security

Notion of sustainability and environmental risk

Climate change and human security

Perspectives:

Gender perspectives and feminist critique

Postcolonial and post-development perspectives

Human geography

Political economy

Critical management studies

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

Information for Authors

What you should do right now

Please submit your abstracts (maximum 1000 words, A4 paper, single spaced, 12 point font) and by 1st November 2008 to s.dar@qmul.ac.uk and devandglob@gmail.com

Hearing back about your submission

You will hear from us by December 2008 regarding our decision about the abstract you have submitted.

Writing your full paper

Authors whose abstracts have been accepted must submit their full paper by 1st May 2009. Please use the format: maximum 6000 (aim for 4000) words A4 paper, single spaced, 12 point font.

Receiving a timetable

We will inform you when and where your paper will be presented during February 2009.