[ecrea] CfP OA special issue: organisational life in pop culture

Please find below details of the first special issue of our new fully OA
journal: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Equality and Diversity. I
would be most grateful if you could share with your networks, including
ECRs.

We would be happy to extend the deadline for anyone who has a paper
idea. Papers can be full papers, shorter research notes,
film/television/fiction reviews, creative writing, book reviews,
teaching resources or other relevant materials.


Please do get in touch if you have any questions.

Kate
@IPEDJournal

Special issue CfP (deadline 8th January 2016)

Critical interpretations of the representation and re(production) of
organisational life in popular culture: international perspectives.


/Guest editors:/

Dr Rebecca Finkel, Senior Lecturer, Queen Margaret University,
(rfinkel /at/ qmu.ac.uk) <mailto:(rfinkel /at/ qmu.ac.uk)>

Dr Kate Sang, Associate Professor, Heriot-Watt University,
(k.sang /at/ hw.ac.uk) <mailto:(k.sang /at/ hw.ac.uk)>

Steven Glasgow, PhD student, Heriot Watt University, (SG264 /at/ hw.ac.uk)
<mailto:(SG264 /at/ hw.ac.uk)>


This special issue examines the interface between popular culture and
organisational life, and how popular culture represents, constructs, and
negotiates issues relating to masculinities and femininities. A range of
scholars from different disciplines are analysing popular culture to
understand the complexities of work under neoliberal capitalism and the
personal, professional, and subjective vagaries of organisational life.
Recent examples include analyses of series such as /Mad Men/ (see
special issue of/Cultural Studies Review/), Star Trek Voyager (Bowring,
2004), The Bill (a British police procedural drama) (Sullivan and
Sheridan, 2005), The Apprentice (Windle, 2010), and Futurama (Pullen and
Rhodes, 2012). Analysing popular culture and its representations of
working life is useful for media and cultural studies on a number of
counts: first, it brings concepts and theories from a wide range of
disciplines such as sociology, film studies, communication studies,
literary theory, management, and psychoanalysis, bringing new theories
and concepts to enrich our analyses of gender and race in organisations.
Secondly, as Emma Bell (2008) argues, TV and film allows for an
exploration of the emotional and personal aspects of management and
organisations, providing resources through which individuals can
critically reflect on their work experiences. Thus, film and television
can be viewed as part of that social construction of management and
organisational life (Bell, 2008). Indeed, popular culture is often
critical of working life and large corporations (Hassard and Halliday,
2008). Thirdly, popular culture offers ideals and exemplars of what is
imagined to be the ‘good life’ achievable through work.

In spite of the upsurge of interest in popular culture in organisational
theory, relatively little of this literature provides us with a
sustained feminist or critical race analysis of organisations or
management. In particular, little is said about and how films and
television may influence managerial and organisational masculinities and
femininities and their classing and racialisation. In this special
issue, we welcome contributions which explore popular representations of
management and managers, especially those which use feminist and
critical race theory to critique how managerial masculinities and
femininities are (re)produced. We particularly welcome papers which look
at the representation of women of colour and from those examining
sources of media in languages other than English. Submissions may
address (but are not limited to) the following questions:

  * How can feminist analyses of representations of management deepen
    our understanding of how gender, class and race are (re)produced in
    contemporary workplaces?
  * How can academic disciplines such as film and television studies or
    literary theory inform studies of management and its practice?
  * How do cultural representations of organisational life inform,
    influence or reflect working life?
  * How is gender in the workplace represented in a range of popular
    culture forms, for example, soap operas, graphic novels, films and
    fiction. We particularly welcome analyses of popular culture in non
    English speaking countries.
  * What resources does popular culture offer us for critiquing
    gendering and racialization in organisations?
  * How can representations of gender at work be used to support teaching?

Submissions can be in English, German, Greek, Thai. For other languages
please contact the editorial team as we may be able to accommodate this,
for example, French, Spanish or Portugese. To discuss ideas for a paper
please contact the editorial team.

Manuscripts should be no more than 8,000 words, including notes and
references, and be in conformity with /IPED /style guidelines. If you
have an idea for a shorter piece e.g. a research note please contact the
editorial team. We welcome innovative pieces so please do get in touch
if you have something you’d like to discuss.

Papers should be submitted online
viahttp://journals.hw.ac.uk/index.php/IPED/index

Closing date for submissions 8th January 2016

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