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> Da: "Williams, Prof C.C." <ccw3@???>
> Data: 08 febbraio 2005 15:23:44 CET
> A: SOCIAL-POLICY@???
> Oggetto: Contesting Capitalism Workshop
> Rispondere-A: "Williams, Prof C.C." <ccw3@???>
>
> CONTESTING CAPITALISM: PRACTICES AND STRATEGIES
>
> One day Workshop, Wednesday 18 May 2005
> Collective for Alternative Organisation Studies (CAOS)
> University of Leicester Management Centre
>
>
>
> Workshop Theme
>
> Following the success of CAOS inaugural workshop in June 2004, we are
> organising a second event to coincide with Katherine Gibson
> (University of Massachussetts) and Julie Graham?s (Australian National
> University) visit to the University of Leicester Management Centre.
>
> Building on the ethos of CAOS (see www.le.ac.uk/ulmc/caos), the aim of
> the workshop is to go beyond critiques of capitalism and consider
> alternatives. We want to respond to those who believe that ?there is
> no alternative? by waving the weight of evidence to the contrary. By
> documenting the alternatives created by those who refuse to be trapped
> by the supposed omnipotence of global capitalism, we hope to open up a
> space where the very possibility of non-capitalist practice can be
> taken seriously.
>
> However, we recognise that neo-liberal fundamentalism has become
> immune to empirical evidence. It tends to close the space for
> imagining alternative organisation by re-inscribing any existing
> alternative within an inevitable path towards failure or cooptation.
> Thus contesting global capitalism not only requires pointing to
> evidence of alternatives, but also developing strategies for
> re-thinking the economy and organisation in ways that do not
> systematically condemn alternatives to the suffocating grip of global
> capitalism. To borrow a phrase from Gibson-Graham, we need to develop
> conceptual frameworks that challenge capitalocentric representations
> of the economy. This entails destabilising the presumed hegemony,
> totality and unity of capitalism by pointing to its historical,
> social, political specificities and contingencies. Thus we need to
> dispel the myth of a singular capitalist essence and instead reveal
> the multiplicity of concrete practices that make up capitalisms. The
> explosion of Capitalism into a set of fragmented, multiple, contingent
> sites of capitalisms, in turn, opens up the space for (recognising)
> non-capitalist practices. Alternatives no longer have to establish
> themselves against, defend themselves against, or resist, some a
> priori hegemonic force of capitalism.
>
> If we follow Gibson-Graham, breaking free of ?capitalocentrism? also
> means thinking differently about the ?economy?. Thus we need to
> develop a vocabulary of economic (and organisational) difference by
> freeing ?exchange?, ?work?, and ?organisation? from the capitalist
> grip within which they have been trapped as ?commodity market?, ?waged
> labour? and ?capitalist enterprise?. This may involve for example
> abandoning the concepts that have dominated our understanding of the
> economy and organisations (e.g. management, performance, competence,
> growth?) and choosing others (e.g. justice, dignity, sustainability,
> values?)
>
> In short, the workshop will engage with the following themes:
>
> · Exploring past and present alternative forms of organising (e.g.
> alternative forms of work, alternative forms of exchange, alternative
> organisational forms: cooperative, communes?)
>
> · Exploding the myth of capitalism as an omnipotent and monolithic
> force, and highlighting the breaks, disjunctures, differences in the
> making of contemporary economies.
>
> · Reconceptualising ?organisation? and the economy, or to
> paraphrase Gibson-Graham developing a vocabulary of ?economic /
> organisational difference?.
>
> CAOS is an open community and we would like to extend the invitation
> to the workshop to all those who share our commitment to broaden the
> imagination and practice of organisation. We welcome academics at all
> levels, as well as from those involved in shaping alternatives
> (activists, politicians, NGO workers and others). This openness will
> also be reflected in the different formats of the sessions; some may
> follow the paper presentation format, whilst others may take the form
> of more open discussion forum.
>
>
> Time and venue
> The workshop will open at 9.30 with registration and close at 5.15,
> although it may ciontinue informally for those who want to stay for a
> drink afterwards. It will take place in the Charles Wilson Building
> (2nd Floor) at the University of Leicester, University Road. For
> directions to the university and the Charles Wilson Building, visit
> the university website at www.le.ac.uk/maps/
>
>
> Workshop programme
> We are currently finalising the programme and it will shortly be
> available on our website (www.le.ac.uk/ulmc/caos). A provisional
> programme is included below.
>
> Attendance
> Attendance at the workshop is FREE, however we need to know how many
> participants there will be in order to book lunch and refreshments. So
> if you wish to attend, please complete the registration form attached
> and email to Jenni Hern (j.hern@??? ) by the 15th of April 2005.
>
> Accommodation in Leicester
> If you need accommodation for the night before or after the workshop,
> there are two hotels close to the University campus:
>
> Regency Hotel www.the-regency-hotel.com
> Belmont Hotel www.bw-belmonthouse.co.uk
>
> CONFERENCE REGISTRATION FORM
>
> Contesting capitalism: practices and strategies
>
> One day Workshop, Wednesday 18 May 2005
> Collective for Alternative Organisation Studies
> University of Leicester Management Centre
>
>
>
> Participant Details
>
> Family Name: _________________________________________________
> First Name:
> _________________________________________________
> Institution:
> _________________________________________________
> Department:
> _________________________________________________
> Address:
> _________________________________________________
> ________________________ Post
> Code:________________
> City/Country
> _________________________________________________
> Telephone:
> _________________________________________________
> Email:
> _________________________________________________
> Dietary Requirements (e.g. vegetarian):
> ___________________________________
>
>
> Please return this Registration Form by the 15th of April 2005 by
> email to Jenni Hern (j.hern@???) or print and post to Jenni Hern,
> University of Leicester Management Centre, University Road, Leicester
> LE1 7RH, UK.
> If you have any queries about the workshop email Professor Colin
> Williams (ccw3@???)
>
>
>
> Workshop programme
>
> 9.30 Registration and Coffee
> 10-10.45 Katherine Gibson and Julie Graham
> 10.45-12.15
> Stream 1 Alternative perspectives on work
> - Dogan Göçmen, Sense and Senselessness in the Organisation of Labour:
> A critical account of the debates in the 19th century
> - V. Vandelacluze and R. Hoop, In search of sustainable work
> - Stephen Sheard, Key challenges in managing people over the next 5
> years
> Stream 2 Reflecting the diverse economy
> - Nadia Johanisova, Survival Strategies of rural social enterprises in
> Britain and the Czech Republic
> - Adrian Smith and Alison Stenning, Beyond Household Economies:
> Articulations and Spaces of Economic Practice in Post-Socialism
> - Mark Banks, Moral Economy and Cultural Work
> 12.15-1.30 Lunch
> 1.30-3.00
> Stream 1 Practising alternatives
> - Diane Skinner, Food production within a community
> - Martin Buttle, Creating a hybrid socio-financial organisational
> narrative: the case of Charity Bank
> - John Courtneidge, Cooperative Socialism: Theory and Practice
> Stream 2 Resisting capitalism
> - Andy Pike, Fighting Closures: the limits and prospects of social
> agency
> - Labour Reform Network Project (Rosemary Stock), Building Ideology: A
> cooperative approach
> - David Byrne and Sally Ruane, Resisting Bolkstein: Knowledge is not
> power
> 3.00-3.15 Tea Break
> 3.15-4.15
> Stream 1 Alternative Currencies
> - Mary Fee, Local Exchange Trading Schemes: why do some fail and
> others succeed?
> - John Rogers, Convincing, Consensus and constructed currencies: the
> past, present and future of the complementary currencies movement
> Stream 2 Representing the economy
> - Martyna Sliwa and George Cairns, Beyond dichotomies of capitalism
> and its alternatives: Language games and the implications of social
> groups for which ?capitalism? has no meaning
> - Colin Marx, The role of poverty studies in placing the poor outside
> of the economy
> 4.15-5.15 Engaging with / in Activism
> - Jenny Pickerill and Paul Chatterton, Living between worlds:
> Autonomous activists in the city
> - Leicester Social Forum
>
>
>
>
>
> Professor Colin C Williams
> The Management Centre
> University of Leicester
> Leicester LE1 7RH
> United Kingdom
> Tel: +44 (0)116 252 5387
> E-mail: c.williams@???
>
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