After The Apocalypse
Finding Hope in Organizing
Published on 1. October 2020
248 pages
978-1-78904-481-2 (ISBN)
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Our times of crumbling structures and decaying social bonds are often depicted as apocalyptic. This book takes the apocalypse as a metaphor to help us in the search for meaning in our everyday realities. Yes, the apocalypse is when social structures and institutions fall apart and we are terrified and suffocated by the debris raining down upon us. But 'apocalypse' also means 'revelation'. The very collapse reveals what dissipating institutions were constructed upon: where there ought to have been foundational common values, most often there is violence and raw power. Yet the values are there, too, and they can be found. This book is a guide to these values, showing how they can be of help to organizers and organizational dreamers.
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Monika Kostera is titular professor in economics and in the humanities and works as Professor Ordinaria at The Jagiellonian University in Poland and she also teaches at Södertörn University in Sweden. She also works at Durham University in the UK, and she writes poetry. Monika's research interests include organizational imagination and the dis-alienation of work. She lives in Krakow, Poland.
Content
- Intro
- Introduction: The Sociological Apocalypse
- Organizing and organizations
- Stories of hope
- And then there was hope: level of narration
- Global change
- Local Stories
- Slow thinking, sudden leap: level of interpretation
- Doors and exits: Level of Metaphor
- 1. Sow seeds of hope Philosophy
- Thinking hope
- A philosophical quest for better organization
- Sociology Sociological reflection as a way out of the taken for granted
- Organizational sociology
- Physchology The force of the human mind
- Pyschological lessons for organizational settings
- A.D. Jankowicz: An approach from Personal Construct Theory
- One more conversation about psychology and organizing
- 2. Make it grow
- Poetics Everything is poetry
- Poetic organizing
- Art What is Art?
- Organizing by Art
- Music Music for the lively mind
- Music and organizing
- 3. Water daily
- History History and presence
- Organizational history
- Roy Jacques: History, why?
- Mythical Stories Myths for the profane
- Organizational mythmaking
- Religion Kristin Falk Saughau: What is religion good for?
- Religion sustains hope
- Religion and organizing
- 4. See it rise!
- Architecture imagine an architecture / imagine a wall by Reuben Woolley
- Hopeful architecture
- Architecture and organization
- Radical politics A politics of hope
- Radical politics of organization
- Nigel Slack: Why is it important to be a local activist?
- Radical organizing
- Alternative organizations Simply, organizations
- There is an (organizational) alternative
- Disalienation
- Martin Parker: The Hope for Something Other
- Coda: In praise of margins
- Fall
- Endnotes
