What Would it Take to Organize for a Better World? Thinking with Feminist New Materialisms

Abstract

This symposium aims to generate capabilities for critical interpretations and actions in the context of what appears as normal in management and society today (even when described as a “new normal”) and directly address shared desires to change towards better situations: How to imagine a fundamentally new enterprise today, one that forces us to abandon how we think of and enact “our field” and attempt “to manage our world”? The perspectives in this symposium, foster critical re-envisioning, experimentation, and often overturn what we have been taking for granted as normal, but also to conceive of different positive futures. The contemporary transdisciplinary conceptualizations and vocabularies of feminist new materialisms engage the imagination to envision other possibilities about our ways of organizing life and living.