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 Hekkurinen, Wendelin Küpers and Helen Wadham
Pasi Heikkurinen, Wendelin Küpers and Helen Wadham
Creative performativity beyond the Anthropocene: Embodied organizing in more-than-human worlds
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, Iana Nesterova 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: Constitutive more-than-human relations of care in a precision medicine pilot
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): Jetter Sandager and Mie Plotnikof
Jette Sandager and Mie Plotnikof
Organizing
diversity from policy to daily politics: Everyday diversity matter(ing)s of books,
barbies, and balls in educational organizations
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
The water that floods the Venetian Lagoon, the snow that melts in the Alps: Exploring diffraction in constituting the climate
crisis
Discussant(s): Daniel Robichaud, Ivan Ivanov and Benoit Cordelier
Daniel Robichaud, Ivan Ivanov and Benoit Cordelier
A process view of crisis management: Organizing, communication and constitution
Discussant(s): Guy Huber and David Knights
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, Marco Distinto and Angelo Benozzo
Performing integration in time of crisis: A post-human cartography of migrant inclusion in Aosta Valley
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
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): Jenni Puroila
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, Jo Brewis, Saoirse O'Shea and Stefanie Ruel
Space for all? Investigating posthuman identities and performativity within the European Space Agency
Discussant(s): Stephanie Daher
Stephanie Daher
Organizing at the end of the world: Ontological perspectivism as an approach to ecological crises
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
The town deer and the country cow: Two tales of animal agency and dis/organizational communication
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): 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
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 and Maria Arango Kure
Struggling to become a cyborganization: The case of Medium.com
Discussant(s): Katie Beavan
Katie Beavan and Line Revsbæk
Respons-able theory development: Welcoming diffraction apparatus as democratic, generative engaging with organizational and
social change
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.