Creating Conflictive Democracy through Global Movement Networks

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Consensus is Oppression: Creating Conflictive Democracy through Global Movement Networks

Friday, December 4th 2009, 1.30 to 3.30 pm, Room 4.08, School of Business and Management, Queen Mary, University of London.

Democratic rhetoric has never been so widespread, yet democracy is in deep crisis. Dominant app...roaches reliant on representative democratic practices view human diversity as a problem to be resolved, resulting in homogenisation and exclusion. Diversity, however, can be healthy for democracy when given room for expression. Marianne Maeckelbergh argues that conflict must be embraced in organisational processes.

Marianne Maeckelbergh's research uses a methodology of politically engaged anthropology that calls into question the demarcation of stark boundaries between theory and practice. Her work provides some answers to the double role researchers have in interpreting the cultural practices of organisation whilst simultaneously being actively involved in creating and transforming these practices. Moreover her research confronts important questions about university-based research, its subjects, audiences and purposes. These are key concerns for doctoral researchers today. In this PhD master class, Marianne Maeckelbergh will present her PhD research on conflict in organisation and discuss the methodological approach that informed her study. She will also address questions regarding the process of publishing PhD research.

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The PhD master class is open to all research students and is co-organised by Goldsmiths Centre for Cultural Studies and Queen Mary School of Business and Management, University of London.

_Contacts:_

Emma Dowling, e.dowling [at] qmul dot ac dot uk. Tel: 020 7882 8985

John Hutnyk, john.hutnyk [at] gold dot ac dot uk. Tel: 020 7919 7061

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