[STS-Africa] Call for papers: Organizing Outside Organizations

[Gianluca Miscione]

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*Please distribute as you see fitThanks,Gianluca----------------------Call
for papers: Organizing Outside OrganizationsGuest editors:Barbara
Czarniawska - University of GothenburgGianluca Miscione - University
College DublinElena Raviola - University of GothenburgRafael Alcadipani da
Silveira - EASP-FGVEmre Tarim - Lancaster University(For any queries please
contact the editors at organizing-outside at googlegroups.com
<organizing-outside at googlegroups.com>) We have been studying formal
organizations for at least a century, if not longer, and there is not much
that we do not know about them. A recent phenomenon – the digital
transformation of contemporary organizations – has also attracted much
attention, and great many studies were done, with interesting results. But
digitalization opened also wide doors to organizing outside, oftentimes in
spite of, and against, formal organizations. How do people organize
demonstrations in Belarus, in Poland, or, for that matter, how do The Proud
Boys do it in the USA?  Indeed, there is no need for an a priori moral
evaluation, although a posteriori one is always welcome. We simply need to
know more about such informal organizing, which was always present, but now
has become widespread thanks to globalization and digitalization. After
all, it is connecting collective actions, or “doings” to one another, which
is the main trait of organizing. Organizations are legal units; a “network”
can exist, yet do nothing; in order to accomplish anything, good or bad,
“doings” are necessary, and they have to be coordinated, connected, and
stabilized – temporarily or for good. So, to use Bruno Latour's (2013)
vocabulary, how are scripts written and dispatching performed, or in that
of Annemarie Mol (2010), how is ordering (aligning) and coordination done,
in informal organizing?In this Special Issue we invite all texts based on
studies that can throw some light on the phenomenon of organizing outside
organizations – both fieldwork and culture studies are welcome.Deadline: 30
September 2021More details
here:https://www.puntoorginternationaljournal.org/index.php/PIJ/announcement/view/9
<http://bit.ly/3a9WgGa>
(andhttps://www.linkedin.com/pulse/call-papers-organizing-outside-organizations-gianluca-miscione
<http://bit.ly/39hVLKY>) *
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