Dear MSR community,
Here is an exciting opportunity shared by Raysa Rocha and David Watson:
The 14th International Critical Management Studies (ICMS) Conference will be hosted at Manchester Metropolitan University (UK) between 18th-20th June 2025.
Just a reminder that we are happy to receive submissions for our paper stream at next year's ICMS conference up until the 31st of Jan – just over a week left to get submissions in!
The stream encourages submissions that engage critically and (re)generatively with practices/discourses/theories/notions of wellbeing with attention to what implications this has for organizing and managing. Please see full details here: https://slownetwork1.wordpress.com/critical-wellbeing-approaches-in-theory-and-practice-possibilities-for-regenerative-management-and-organizing/
We welcome papers that are not limited to, but may engage with the following topics:
- How wellbeing 'organizes' both within and outside formal organizations, and what possibilities this offers for (re)generative management.
- The theory and/or practice of the wellbeing economy.
- Historical comparisons of wellbeing discourses today and in the past. How does wellbeing at work today differ from, and continue, past concerns and practices?
- The potential to resist and reorganize capitalism and work through radical practices of wellbeing.
- The intersection between organizational practices of work and wellbeing and potential reimagining and alternatives.
- Links, synergies and potential trade-offs between wellbeing and sustainability goals within organizations, and what sort of initiatives may build bridges between personal and planetary wellbeing.
- How are wellbeing ideals gendered and racialized? Is well-ness a neo-colonial project, or how is it not?
- What can we learn from wellbeing in the Global South and how it organizes?
- Wellbeing and post-capitalism, degrowth.
- Wellbeing and social enterprise, not for profit sector.
- Alternative, especially collective, practices of organizational wellbeing.
- How can a feminist ethic of care inform or transform ideas of wellbeing?
- Spirituality and ethical notions of wellbeing and organizational/managerial implications.
- The critical potential or pitfalls of wellbeing ideologies.
Potential stream participants should submit an abstract of up to 1000 words (excluding references) by 31st January 2025 to djwats@essex.ac.uk and/or Marjana.Johansson@glasgow.ac.uk or in case of questions please contact us directly.
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Dr. Ekaterina Ivanova
MSR Social Media Team Leader
Associate Professor
HSE University
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