Sub-theme 06: [SWG 06] Organizing with More-than-Humans? Post-Human Performativity Amid Perpetual Crisis
Convenors:
Karen Lee Ashcraft, University of Colorado Boulder, USA
Nicolas Bencherki, Université TÉLUQ in Montréal, Canada
Mie Plotnikof, Aarhus University in Copenhagen, Denmark
Session I: Thursday, July 04, 09:00 to 10:30, U6-P0-01b
Welcome Session / Are We More Than Humans?
Chair: Karen Ashcraft, Mie Plotnikof & Nicolas Bencherki
Ellen Nathues, Aleksander Groth and Leonhard Dobusch
When the frustrations of many turn into a firestorm: The communicative constitution of a collectively forceful voice
Discussant(s): Pasi Heikkurinen, Wendelin Küpers and Helen Wadham
Pasi Heikkurinen, Helen Wadham, Wendelin M. Küpers and Jenny Rinkinen
Sustainable performance through more-than-human embodiment
Discussant(s): Aleksander Groth, Ellen Nathues and Leonhard Dobusch
The convenors will greet participants, explain a few EGOS traditions, encourage participants to use a common Google Docs document
to take notes, and invite them to prepare questions about what intrigues them and what touches them. After that, we will give
the floor to two paper presentations.
Session II: Thursday, July 04, 11:00 to 12:30, U6-P0-01b
What is the 'More' Than Human?
Chair: Nicolas Bencherki
Mark van Vuuren
Organizing with more-than-one-human: Towards the communicative constitution of eudaimonia
Discussant(s): Astrid Huopalainen, Iana Nesterova and Martta Nieminen
Astrid Huopalainen and Martta Nieminen
Non-human beings and degrowth business – New openings
Discussant(s): Marie-Claude Plourde
Marie-Claude Plourde
Exploring new forms of environmental awareness initiatives
Discussant(s): Elie Saaoud
Elie Saaoud
From flesh to insight: More-than-human affective relations in the process of scientific truth-claiming
Discussant(s): Mark van Vuuren
Session III: Thursday, July 04, 14:00 to 15:30, U6-P0-01b
How Does Difference Matter to Organizing?
Chair: Karen Ashcraft
Tasha Sarrazin Audras
Storying the closet: The sites of materialization of fatphobia
Discussant(s): Noortje van Amsterdam, Laura Visser and Dide van Eck
Noortje van Amsterdam, Laura Visser and Dide van Eck
Using arts-based research to engage with feminist new materialist thought in MOS
Discussant(s): Vera Karina Gebhardt Fearns, Monica Nadegger and Costanza Sartoris
Vera Karina Gebhardt Fearns, Monica Nadegger and Costanza Sartoris
Feminist fabulations from the field: Speculating with more than human worlds
Discussant(s): Tasha Sarrazin Audras
Session IV: Friday, July 05, 09:00 to 10:30
- Parallel Stream -
Parallel Stream A: Are We Always in Crisis? - Room: U6-P0-01b
Chair: Nick Butler
Monica Nadegger and Monica Porzionato
Flooding lagoons, melting mountains: Diffractive analysis for a communicative engagement with extra/linguistic materializations
Discussant(s): Daniel Robichaud
Guy Huber and David Knights
Environmental, pandemic and epistemological post-truth crises: Re-theorizing power, performativity and truth for a post-Covid
organizational life
Discussant(s): Angelo Benozzo, Marco Distinto and Cinzia Priola
Cinzia Priola, Angelo Benozzo and Marco Distinto
Performing
integration: A more-than-human cartography of migrant inclusion
Discussant(s): Monica Nadegger and Monica Porzionato
Parallel Stream B: How to Talk Reality into Being? - Room: U6-P4-Polivalente
Chair: Sheena Vachhani
Joëlle Basque, Nicolas Bencherki and Viviane Sergi
The anticipatory performativity of future assessments
Discussant(s): Mathieu Chaput, Chantal Benoit-Barné, François Cooren and Boris H. J. M. Brummans
Chantal Benoît-Barné, Mathieu Chaput, Boris Brummans, François Cooren and Simon Mallette
The rhetorical constitution of organizations: Bringing persuasion from the margins to the fore in CCO research
Discussant(s): Christoph Haug, Anette Hallin, Viviane Sergi and Chris Ivory
Christoph Haug, Anette Hallin, Viviane Sergi and Chris J. Ivory
What does silence do? Investigating the organizing effects of silences during virtual meetings
Discussant(s): David Dooling
David Dooling
"Successful in spite of itself:" Examining nonhuman agencies in pride parade organizations
Discussant(s): Joëlle Basque, Nicolas Bencherki and Viviane Sergi
Session V: Friday, July 05, 11:00 to 12:30
- Parallel Stream -
Parallel Stream A: How Does Nature Intersect with Organizing? - Room: U6-P0-01b
Chair: Mathieu Chaput
Sheena J. Vachhani and Alison Pullen
More-than-human worldmaking – Materializing knowledge and embodied relations through plant thinking and vegetal ecologies
as a political language
Discussant(s): Aliette Lambert, George Ferns and Alice Wickström
Aliette Lambert, George Ferns and Alice Wickström
Working against (mother) nature: Renewable technology assemblages, a masculine ethic, and the climate crisis
Discussant(s): Jawwad Raja, Thomas Frandsen and Isabelle Fabienne Neufang
Thomas Frandsen, Jawwad Z. Raja and Isabelle Fabienne Neufang
Engaging (with) our sea: More-than-human entanglements in the Blue Economy
Discussant(s): Sheena Vacchani
Parallel Stream B: What is Sustainability Really? - Room: U6-P4-Polivalente
Chair: Daniel Robichaud
Vincent Vindevoghel and Thibault Daudigeos
Considering the role of non-humans in the governance of sustainability transitions
Discussant(s): Alessandra Fenu, Joanna Brewis, Saoirse O'Shea and Stefanie Ruel
Alessandra Fenu, Stefanie Ruel and Jo Brewis
Space for all? Investigating posthuman identities and performativity within the European Space Agency
Discussant(s): Kate Lockwood Harris
Kate Harris
Transforming organizational trauma: Disorganizing border defensiveness beyond human boundaries
Discussant(s): Vincent Vindevoghel and Thibault Daudigeos
Session VI: Friday, July 05, 14:00 to 15:30
- Parallel Stream -
Parallel Stream A: How Do Humanimals Organize? - Room: U6-P0-01b
Chair: Monica Nadegger
Mathieu Chaput
Cows on the run: A tale of relationality, dis/organization, and resistance
Discussant(s): Kate Dashper and Helen Wadham
Helen Wadham and Katherine Dashper
“They treat you like an animal”: Reimagining ethical and compassionate working lives through the human/animal boundary
Discussant(s): Jenni Puroila
Jenni Puroila
Healer trees and multispecies care laboring
Discussant(s): Stephanie Daher
Stephanie Daher
Organizing at the end of the world: Ontological perspectivism as an approach to ecological crises
Discussant(s): Mathieu Chaput
Parallel Stream B: How Does Technology Matter? - Room: U6-P4-Polivalente
Chair: Joëlle Basque
Shan Wang
Repositioning AI as trickster in organizational settings
Discussant(s): Dina Myllymäki, Violetta Khoreva and Katja Einola
Dina Myllymäki, Katja Einola and Violetta Khoreva
Transforming work practices: Exploring the dynamics of human-AI collaboration in the financial sector
Discussant(s): Nick Butler and Sverre Spoelstra
Nick Butler and Sverre Spoelstra
Algorithmic governmentality and the ethics of workplace gamification
Discussant(s): Céline Legrand and Nicolas Bencherki
Céline Legrand and Nicolas Bencherki
Writings on the wall: Degrees of materiality in team collaboration practices
Discussant(s): Shan Wang
Session VII: Saturday, July 06, 09:00 to 10:30, U6-P0-01b
How are Alternatives Emerging?
Chair: Mie Plotnikof
Dennis K. Mumby
The alchemy of branding
Discussant(s): Damien Renard, Salla-Maaria Laaksonen, François Lambotte, Sophie Del Fa, Jukka Huhtamäki, Erjon Skenderi, and Mia Leppälä
Damien Renard, Salla-Maaria Laaksonen, François Lambotte, Sophie Del Fa, Jukka Huhtamäki and Erjon Skenderi
Resistance(s) in platformed organizing
Discussant(s): Thomas Cyron and Maria Arango Kure
Thomas Cyron, Maria Arango-Kure and Mart Ots
Struggling to become a cyborganization: The case of Medium.com
Discussant(s): Katie Beavan and Line Revsbæk
Katie Beavan and Line Revsbæk
Garbage as site of respons-able theorizing-as-participation
Discussant(s): Dennis Mumby
Session VIII: Saturday, July 06, 11:00 to 12:30, U6-P0-01b
Sub-theme Conclusion
Chair: Karen Ashcraft, Mie Plotnikof and Nicolas Bencherki
We will discuss commonalities among papers and highlight what we have learned and what touched us. We will also introduce
next year's sub-theme.