Organizing hope narratives for a better future

"Crumbling social institutions, disintegrating structures, and a profound sense of uncertainty are the signs of our time, stemming from a situation in which traditional systems are dying but the new cannot yet be born. In this timely book, this contemporary crisis is explored and illuminated, p...

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Other Authors: Ericsson, Daniel (Editor), Kostera, Monika (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Northampton Edward Elgar Publishing 2019, 2019
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Collection: Edward Elgar eBooks Collection Business & Economics - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
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505 0 |a time, oblivion, and the strange attractors of Pandora's box / Richard Longman -- 9. Against organization - farewell to hope? / George Cairns -- 10. Idealists and dreamers: struggling for more resilient communities via alternative organisations / Anna G.ral -- 11. Cadriste (r)evolution / Markus Kallifatides -- 12. The hope of discomfort: using democratic citizenship education for transformative learning / Tali Padan -- 13. Technologies of the commune: a bridge over troubled water? / Daniel Ericsson -- 14. "Dad, do not cry": imagination and creativity on their own terms in inclusive cities and communities / Agata Morgan -- 15. Street performances in hope for the future of the urban sphere: human interaction, self-realization and emotive enactment / Marta Połeć -- 16. There is hope in organizing: dialogic imagination against linearity / Michał Izak and Monika Kostera -- 17. Good labour: affirmative work awareness and hope / Małgorzata Ćwikła --  
505 0 |a Avalanche / Karolina Matyjaszkowicz -- References -- Index 
505 0 |a Prologue by Anke Strau. And Christina Ciupke -- Introduction. Organizing hope: narratives for a better future / Daniel Ericsson and Monika Kostera -- Part one. Philosophical and theoretical inspirations -- 1. Hopeful organizing in the crucible of the interregnum / Karl E. Weick -- 2. Alternative futures: 'hope is a thing with feathers' / Martin Parker -- 3. The utopian quest for an alternative / Roland Paulsen -- 4. Epimethean hope or promethean expectation? The role of organisational behaviour / John Vaughan -- 5. Transforming work into "play": genuine conversations as hope for meaningful organizational change / John G. McClellan -- 6. Hope in business organizing for societal progress: Three narratives / Stewart Clegg, Ace Volkmann Simpson, Miguel Pina e Cunha, and Arm.nio Rego -- 7. Post-pandoran hope for moving wisely beyond the neo-promethean anthropocene / Wendelin Küpers -- Part two. Empirical and imaginative inspirations --  
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520 |a "Crumbling social institutions, disintegrating structures, and a profound sense of uncertainty are the signs of our time, stemming from a situation in which traditional systems are dying but the new cannot yet be born. In this timely book, this contemporary crisis is explored and illuminated, providing narratives that suggest how the notion of hope can be leveraged to create powerful methods of organizing for the future, in communities, workplaces and businesses. In response to the increasing attention being paid to the shocking seriousness of the current state of the world, this innovative book offers a variety of ways of bringing hope into a situation otherwise defined by hopelessness, following a tradition of radical dissent by public intellectuals such as Zygmunt Bauman and Vaclav Havel. Chapters first consider theoretical and philosophical perspectives on hopeful organizing, followed by both empirical discussions about achieving change and more imaginative narratives of alternative and utopian futures, including an exploration of the differing roles of work, creativity, idealism, inclusivity and activism. Organizing Hope will be a critical and thought-provoking read for researchers and students of organization theory and sociology, as well as other social sciences. Politicians, policy makers and other decision makers in government will also find the book insightful and useful"--