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Feminists and Queer Theorists Debate the Future of Critical Management Studies
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24 April 2017

What is CMS for and what might its future be- both inside the domain of academia and outside it? It's a question that has beguiled and frustrated academics within and outside its community. At the hear of CMS is an enduring skepticism concerning the social and ecological sustainability of prevailing ideas and forms of management and organization. Using ideas from feminist and queer theory, authors of this volume aim to generate some thinking and possibly a nascent agenda. It focuses on the future of CMS but also intertwines it with ideas as to how scholarly communities can engage in working lives differently.
— Yvonne Bishop
"This collection is a call to action for a more active, politically engaged CMS. It invites us to envision what more CMS can be with the addition of more feminist, more anti-racist, and more queer voices. With an assemblage of chapters that are bound to provoke and unsettle, the book aims to incite reflexivity among CMS scholars and to prompt collective efforts for confronting the normative in knowledge, in management, in the university and in the academy more generally."
— Linda Smircich and Marta Calas, Isenberg School of Management, University of Massachusetts Amherst
"When asked what feminism and queer theory can offer to the scope and direction of critical work, the masters of CMS who guard the 'manual' of critique often simply shrug their shoulders. In this insightful and lively volume, the feminist and the queer are at last tactically connected to retort with plenty of heartfelt and provocative alternatives. Embodied, anti-normative and explosive critique - ranging from practical politics to pragmatic change, from creative resistance to radical activism and from feminist solidarity to queer friendship - is explained well and illustrated consistently in a thought-provoking and surprising text that aims to confront and root out many of the injustices and injuries in a world, desiring to become more equal, diverse and different."
— Chris Steyaert, Professor for Organizational Psychology, University of St. Gallen
1. Collecting feminist and queer dialogues in and around CMS - The editors
2. Redeeming difference in CMS through anti-racist feminism - Helena Liu
3. Beyond subject-less abstractions: a feminist praxis contribution - Ngaire Bissett
4. Feminist critical management studies in the lecture hall: a space for activism and hope? - Katherine J C Sang, Steven Glasgow
5. Feminism in the third space: critical discourse analysis of Mipsterz women and grassroots activism - Golnaz Golnaraghi and Sumayya Daghar
6. The Neoliberal Crisis: Alternative Organizing and Spaces of/for Feminist Solidarity - Maria Daskalaki and Marianna Fotaki
7. Manifesto for Feminist Critical Race Killjoys in CMS - Elaine Swan
8. Feminist CMS writing as difficult joy: Via bitches and birds - Janet Sayers
9. Writing with Eve: Queering Paper - Ann Rippin
10. Queer Matters: Reflections on the Critical Potential of Affective Organizing - Sine Nørholm Just, Sara Louise Muhr, Thomas Burø
11. Critical management studies, queer theory and the prospect of a queer friendship - Nick Rumens
12. What’s wrong with queer? Between queer dialogue and separatist safe spaces - Louise Wallenberg and Torkild Thanem
13. Concluding chapter - Sarah Gilmore and Nancy Harding