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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Northampton
Edward Elgar Publishing
2019, 2019
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Table of Contents:
- 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
- Avalanche / Karolina Matyjaszkowicz
- References
- Index
- 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
- Includes bibliographical references