Ethnography 2008 - call for papers

Call for Papers:

Theoretically informed and empirically based papers, as well as work-in-progress papers from new and young emerging scholars, in any of the following areas will be considered:

• Public and private sector work organization and work restructuring.
• New organizational forms and changing forms of employment.
• Organizational, professional, group, community and social class cultures and sub-cultures.
• Management-labour relations and trade union practices.
• Accounting, auditing and governance.
• Services-marketing and consumer behaviour.
• Healthcare, education, local government and social and public policy.
• Ethnographies of conflict, deviance, resistance and misbehaviour (including researcher misbehaviour).
• Business ethics/ unethical business and management and employee practices.
• The role of ethnography in new times.
• The prospects for shop-floor ethnography in an era characterised by the break-up of tradition forms of shop-floor and trade union organisation.
• The contribution of virtual or new media mediated ethnographies.
• The relationship between ethnography and art.
• Ethnographies of consumption and community.
• Problematising methods of teaching and conducting ethnography.
• Ethnography as emotional labour: dealing with fear, anxiety and stress in the field.

Abstracts (up to 750-words, excluding contact details and references) should be submitted to the symposium organizers at the following email address by Friday 11th of January 2008: f.worthington@liv.ac.uk