{"id":2100,"date":"2018-11-07T20:46:43","date_gmt":"2018-11-07T18:46:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kritische-organisationsforschung.de\/?p=2100"},"modified":"2018-11-07T20:46:43","modified_gmt":"2018-11-07T18:46:43","slug":"cfp-cms-2019-sub-theme-2-between-subjugation-and-emancipation-recognizing-the-power-of-recognition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.kritische-organisationsforschung.de\/?p=2100","title":{"rendered":"CfP – CMS 2019 Sub-theme 2: Between subjugation and emancipation: Recognizing the power of recognition"},"content":{"rendered":"

We are pleased to announce that our Call for Papers for the CMS Conference 2019 is now online. Deadline for Abstracts is the 31st<\/sup> January 2019<\/strong>:<\/p>\n

http:\/\/business-school.open.ac.uk\/events\/11th-international-critical-management-studies-conference<\/a><\/p>\n

The 11th International Critical Management Conference 27th – 29th June 2019, The Open University, Walton Hall, Milton Keynes, UK<\/p>\n

SUB-THEME 2: Between subjugation and emancipation: Recognizing the power of recognition<\/p>\n

Convenors: <\/strong><\/p>\n

Gabriele Fassauer (Dresden University of Technology, Germany)<\/p>\n

Ronald Hartz (University of Leicester, UK)<\/p>\n

Gazi Islam (Grenoble Ecole de Management, France)<\/p>\n

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Recognition is an important factor shaping individual and collective well-being, dignity and flourishing, both within organizations and in society more generally (Honneth 1996; Fraser and Honneth 2003; Sayer 2007a, 2007b). For many researchers on management and organizations, recognition is an implicit \u201caffirmation of the social-affective bond between members\u201d (Islam, 2012: 38). Recognition is constitutive for people\u2019s identity-building, their sense of dignity and corresponding self-respect (Grover, 2013; Hancock, 2016; Holtgrewe, 2001; Islam, 2013; Sayer, 2007a). Considered as fundamentally interdependent, people are viewed as \u201cneedy beings\u201d that are capable of suffering and flourishing depending on other\u00b4s recognition (Sayer, 2007b: 23). Recognition is understood as the intersubjective acknowledgement of value of a person\u00b4s behaviours, actions and identities, which supports \u201ca feeling that one is living a worthwhile life and a confidence in one\u2019s ability to do what one considers worthwhile\u201d (Sayer, 2005: 954). Recognition is thus inevitably aligned with a moral dimension of society, economy and organizations as it refers to basic notions of how people should treat each other (Honneth 1996; Sayer, 2005). One of the most elaborated ways to anchor the idea of recognition in social theory was provided by Axel Honneth (1996), an intellectual successor of the Frankfurt School and critical theory. For Honneth, the struggle for recognition, as both a cognitive source for subjectivity and an affective basis of self-esteem, is part of the human condition and one of the drivers of social progress and betterment (Honneth 1996; Fraser and Honneth 2003).<\/p>\n

However, recognition is also discussed in the French tradition of structuralism and poststructuralism, which conceptualizes recognition as basis of the development of self-consciousness and identity-building inescapable linked to forms of subjugation and power (e.g. Althusser, 2014 [1970]; Foucault, 1982; Butler, 1997). From this perspective, people\u2019s desire for recognition is intermingled with power and control mechanisms that serve the perpetuation of societal as well as organizational power structures and domination. Organizations are one of the important economic and social formations \u201c[w]here social categories guarantee a recognizable and enduring social existence\u201d (Butler 1997: 20). But, as Butler continues, \u201cthe embrace of such categories, even as they work in the service of subjection, is often preferred to no social existence at all\u201d (ibid.). Giving voice to the complexities arising from these two traditions of thinking about recognition, our stream aims to develop a more fully-fledged notion of recognition at the workplace. We welcome conceptual and empirical papers that deal with questions of recognition at the societal, organizational or individual workplace level and which pay tribute both to the emancipatory and subjugating character of recognition. Related topics can be various and could address, but are not restricted to the following questions:<\/p>\n