Organization Studies and Posthumanism (Routledge Studies in Management, Organizations and Society)

✍ Scribed by François-Xavier de Vaujany (editor), Silvia Gherardi (editor), Polyana Silva (editor)

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2024
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 341
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book aims at exploring the reception of critical posthumanist conversations in the context of Management and Organization Studies. It constitutes an invitation to de-center the human subject and thus an invitation to the ongoing deconstruction of humanism. The project is not to deny humans but to position them in relation to other nonhumans, more-than-humans, the non-living world, and all the “missing masses” from organizational inquiry. What is under critique is humanism’s anthropocentrism, essentialism, exceptionalism, and speciesism in the context of the Anthropocene and the contemporary crisis the world experiences. From climate change to the loss of sense at work, to the new geopolitical crisis, to the unknown effects of the diffusion of AI, all these powerful forces have implications for organizations and organizing. A re-imagination of concepts, theories, and methods is needed in organization studies to cope with the challenge of a more-than-human world.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
List of contributors for the edited book Organization Studies and Posthumanism
Preface: Posthumanist organizing: Now!
General introduction
Part I
1.1 We are the missing people
1.2 Entrepreneuring as multispecies composting
1.3 From legitimation to alegitimation
1.4 Posthumanism as a system of codifying events
Part II
2.1 Mapping the posthumanist conversations in Organization Studies
2.2 How practice theory participates in critical posthumanist conversations
2.3 Posthumanism and sociomaterial organizing
2.4 Between action and deliberation
2.5 Deleuzoguattarian cartographies of work and organizing in the human–robotic workplace
Part III
3.1 Monsters and myths
3.2 Lacan’s challenge to posthumanism
3.3 Edith Stein’s realms amid posthumanism’s evolving landscape
3.4 From expertise to encounter
General conclusion
Index of names
Index of concepts and theories