[Commlist] Call for chapters - Communication in the face of global crisis

CALL FOR CHAPTERS FROM SCHOLARS IN THE GLOBAL SOUTH: /Communication in 
the Face of Global Crisis: Organisation, Strategy and ‘Doing the Right 
Thing’/ (Routledge)

Edited volume by John McClellan (Aarhus university), Cecilia Cassinger 
(Lund university), Visa Penttilä (LUT university), Monica Porzionato 
(Lund university)

In recent years we have witnessed several global crises, from the H1N1 
pandemic and the war in Ukraine to the ongoing specter of environmental 
and climate change. As organizations confront these global wicked 
problems, leaders are increasingly expected to 'do the right thing' in 
managing, negotiating, or neglecting these crises.

This edited volume invites chapter proposals from scholars based in the 
Global South on the complex ways in which organizations develop 
strategies in response to global crises. Such crises are often contested 
and embedded in conflicting discourses about their nature and resolution 
(Bourne et al., 2022). With increasing public demand for companies to be 
good global citizens or even activists, there is growing pressure on 
organizations to act politically and take a moral stance (Von Schwedler, 
2011; Cöster et al., 2020). The book is situated theoretically at the 
intersection of the research traditions of the Communicative 
Constitution of Organization (CCO) (see Basque, Bencherki & Kuhn, 2022) 
and Strategy as Practice (SAP) (Vaara & Whittington, 2012).

Starting from the assumption that organizational strategies emerge in 
situations where organizations face global problems, there is a 
potential to redefine and refocus crisis communication as the emergent 
constitution of global strategies for global problems. Crisis 
communication can be reimagined not simply as a strategy managed by the 
organization, but as a process more deeply situated in public discourse 
related to global issues. More specifically, questions can be raised 
about the constitution and consequences of companies' attempts to 'do 
the right thing', paying attention to what is lost and forgotten in 
these practices. How do companies make decisions to support public 
health during Covid-19, to stop doing business in Russia in response to 
the war in Ukraine, or to legitimize organizing practices in relation to 
the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in the 2030 Agenda.

These strategies adopted by corporations, NGOs and other organizations 
have significant implications for globalization, morality, and politics, 
and therefore become important activities to understand and critique as 
we move further into the 21st century.

Submissions may address a wide range of themes including, but not 
limited to the following:

- Communication related to global crises (e.g., Covid 19, climate 
change, the war in Ukraine, financial crisis, etc.)

- Decolonization of crisis communication in the global south

- Communicative constitution of strategic response to crisis

- Rethinking response strategies to crisis

- Reconceptualizing crisis communication by means of SAP and CCO 
perspectives

- Morals and ethics of “doing the right thing”

- Authenticity and “doing the right thing”

- Global crisis, meaning and organizational identity

- Global crisis and corporate activism

- Far-right or other political appropriation of global crises

- Strategic paradoxes of global crises

The edited volume is under consideration by Routledge.

Please send a title, 250 word abstract and a short biography in a single 
Word

file by 10 September 2024 to (organisingglobalcrisis /at/ gmail.com) 
<mailto:(organisingglobalcrisis /at/ gmail.com)>. Final chapters should be 
approximately 6000-7000 words and should be submitted to the editors by 
the end of December 2024. No payment is requested from authors.

References

Basque, J., Bencherki, N., & Kuhn, T. (Eds.) (2022). Routledge handbook 
of the communicative constitution of organization. New York, NY: Routledge.

Bourne, C., Mumby, D., Munshi, D., Das, A., Chaudhuri, H-R. & Edwards, 
L. (2022). Narrating the anxious market: in search of alternatives 
during global crises, Consumption Markets & Culture. DOI: 
10.1080/10253866.2022.2066656.

Cöster, M., Dahlin, G., & Isaksson, R. (2020). Are they reporting the 
right thing and are they doing it right? —A measurement maturity grid 
for evaluation of sustainability reports. Sustainability, 12(24), 
https://doi.org/10.3390/su122410393.

Von Schwedler, M. (2011). CSR in the UK water industry: ‘Doing the right 
thing’? A case study. Social and Environmental Accountability Journal, 
31(2), 125-137.

Vaara, E., & Whittington, R. (2012). Strategy-as-practice: Taking social 
practices seriously.Academy of Management Annals,6(1), 285-336

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