Call for Papers - Fictions and Other Emergency Narratives
Call for Papers
Fictions and Other Emergency Narratives
Special Editors
Alexandre de Pádua Carrieri (UFMG, Brazil)
Pablo Gobira (UEMG, Brazil)
Eloisio Moulin de Souza (UFES, Brazil)
It was still in the 1930s that Walter Benjamin (1936/1994) pointed out what narrative had lost in face of the transformations of the modern world. The loss allowed not only the glimpse of the end of experience, but also fostered the pervasiveness of narration in everyday life in a crucial way. Crucial, but superficial. This impoverishment of life, the fruit of the impoverishment of experience, according to Benjamin, spread the unique properties of narrative to all surfaces of planetary existence. The fictional dimension is one of these properties that has become part of an aesthetic society that can be read as art in all its sectors (Lipovetsky & Serroy, 2015).
On the other hand, the Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges (1999) expands the values of fiction when he publishes his book Ficciones (in 1944), bringing a way of narrating that is impacted by this change Walter Benjamin dealt with. The relationship we bring here is not between Benjamin and Borges, but seeks to present a basis for this convocation to the academic community interested in fictions and other emerging narratives present in diverse organizational contexts.
Silviano Santiago (1989), an important Brazilian writer and literary critic, reflects on the events of the 20th century and, in view of the contemporary configuration of society, develops the notion of the "post-modern narrator". According to the author, the postmodern narrator constitutes a narrative that stems "from the observation of an experience alien to him, since the action he narrates has not been woven into the living substance of his existence." Whatever mode of narration remains, its presence in the organizational context is a fact, and narration from multiple perspectives is viable.
Thus, this is a call for papers for a dossier that intends to present the fictional diversity possible (and even impossible!) in organizations. At the same time, we imagine that we will reveal the narrative emergences in society as a whole, but which bring their own configurations in the organizational context.
Myth is one of the possible forms of manifestation of fictional diversity in organizational studies. Myth is a "narrative constructed with the intention of falsifying a given reality" (Gomes, 2005, p. 57), circulating and operating ideologies, ideas, and concepts as if they were true, attributing them academic legitimacy. For example, Bridgman, Cummings, and Ballard (2019) demonstrate that Maslow's pyramid is a myth present in several business schools to this day worldwide. The authors highlight the reasons why Maslow's work lacks legitimacy and therefore was not accepted by psychology, but embraced as truth by management and transformed into a hierarchical pyramidal model of human needs, becoming one of the most popular narratives in the management field.
Knight and Tsoukas (2018) highlight how the notion of post-truth can be the object of analysis and be applied in organizational studies, demonstrating how the language of business is used by political agents to directly intervene in the reality of the world through the casual joining of forces in order to produce social mobilization around their ideas, even if they are not true. To this end, they analyze how business-related communicative actions are used by Trump to create alternative facts and post-truths, as well as their implications for management schools, demonstrating how post-truth impacts the creation of alternative realities through the use of multimodal and informational communication.
Given this, desirable (but not exclusive) topics of this call are:
- myths in organizations;
- emerging narratives and organizations
- organizational literary fictions;
- non-literary fictions in organizations;
- post-truths and organizational narratives;
- interspecies narratives in organizations
- digital narratives in organizations;
- the fictional narratives of human-machine and machine-machine interaction in organizations
- the collective/shared/collaborative interactive narratives in organizations;
- ludic narratives in organizations (games, digital games, gamification and other ludicities);
- other interesting topics involving fiction and narratives...
We end this call by inviting you to visit the digital exhibition "Post-truth: fragments of facts in absentia", by artist Raphael Ferreira, an exhibition curated by Pablo Gobira. The exhibition can be visited for free in 2D or 3D from the link: https://distopica.com.br/pos-verdade/
We look forward to receiving your article!
Referencias
Benjamin, Walter (1994). O narrador: considerações sobre a obra de Nikolai Leskov. In Walter Benjamin. Magia e técnica, arte e política: ensaios sobre literatura e história da cultura (pp. 197-221). São Paulo: Brasiliense.
Borges, Jorge Luis (1999). Ficções. São Paulo: Globo.
Bridgamn, Todd, Cummings, Stephen, & Ballard, John (2019). Who built Maslow’s pyramid? A history of the creation of management studies’ most famous symbol and its implications for management education. Academy of Management Learning & Education, 18(1), 81-89.
Gomes, Nilma L. (2005). Alguns termos e conceitos presentes no debate sobre relações raciais no Brasil: uma breve discussão. In Secretaria de Educação Continuada, Alfabetização e Diversidade, Educação anti-racistas: caminhos abertos pela lei federal nº 10.639/03 (pp. 39-62). Brasília: Ministério da Educação.
Knight, Eric & Tsoukas, Haridimos (2019). When fiction trumps truth: what ‘post-truth’ and ‘alternative facts’ mean for management studies. Organization Studies, 40(2), 183-197.
Lipovetsky, Gilles & Serroy, Jean (2015). A estetização do mundo: viver na era do capitalismo artista. São Paulo: Companhia das Letras.
Santiago, Silviano (1989). O narrador pós-moderno. In Silviano Santiago. Nas malhas da letra (pp. 38-52). São Paulo: Companhia das Letras.
Modalities of Contribution
Farol – Journal of Organization Studies and Society accepts contributions in the form of Covers, Articles, Essays, Debates, Provocations, Interviews, Testimonials, Reviews (of books, films, exhibitions, artistic performances), Photographs and Videos. The languages accepted in the contributions are Portuguese, English and Spanish, as long as they are in accordance with the editorial policy and guidelines for authors. To access the general guidelines, go to: https://revistas.face.ufmg.br/index.php/farol/about/submissions.
Submission
Whatever the type of contribution (Covers, Articles, Essays, Debates, Provocations, Interviews, Testimonials, Reviews, Photographs or Videos), authors must inform the editor, in the item "Comments to editor", that they are submitting specifically for the thematic dossier "Fictions and Other Emergency Narratives". To submit contributions, go to: https://revistas.face.ufmg.br/index.php/farol/index.
Deadline
Contributions for the thematic dossier "Fictions and Other Emergency Narratives" will close on February 27, 2023 (Monday).
Further Information
If you have any questions about this special issue, please contact the special editors: Alexandre de Pádua Carrieri (alexandre@face.ufmg.br) , Pablo Gobira (pablo.gobira@uemg.br) or Eloisio Moulin de Souza (eloisiomoulin@gmail.com). If you have any questions about the journal itself, please contact the editorial office (farol@face.ufmg.br).
