Organizations and Activism
From co-operatives to corporations, Occupy to Facebook, organizations shape our lives. They engage in politics as well as shaping the possible futures of policy making and social change. This new series publishes books that explore how politics happens within and because of organizations. We want to examine how activism is organized, and how activists change organizations. This is a topic of huge relevance to scholars in management, sociology, politics, geography and beyond, and is becoming ever more important as demands for impact and engagement change the way that academics imagine their work.
The series considers organizations and organizing in the broadest sense. Our books offer critical examinations of organizations as sites of or targets for activism, and we also assume that our authors are themselves agents of change. Books may focus on specific organizations, industries or fields, or they may be arranged around particular themes. Topics might include:
- the alternative economy;
- surveillance, whistleblowing and human rights;
- digital politics;
- environmental organizations;
- activism and the pharmaceutical industry;
- NGOs in the global south;
- religious groups and activism;
- feminism and anarchist organization;
- the law and radical social movements;
- action research and co-production;
- activism and the neoliberal university.
Organizations and Activism is a multidisciplinary series. Contributions from all and any relevant fields (for example, development studies, cultural studies and the humanities) are welcome, and this disciplinary diversity is reflected in the series advisory board. The series is international in outlook, and proposals from outside the English speaking global north are particularly welcome.
Books in the series are typically be between 70,000 – 90,000 words in length. Authored books are preferred, but high-quality, cohesive edited volumes are welcome. Our books tend to be written for academic audiences, although the nature of this series means that we encourage authors to consider how their work can be made accessible to non-specialist readers.
International advisory board
- Rafael Alcadipani da Silveira, FGV EAESP, Brazil
- Grietje Baars, City, University of London, UK
- George Cheney, University of Colorado, US
- Bill Cooke, University of York, UK
- Alessia Contu, University of Massachusetts Boston, US
- David Courpasson, EMLYON Business School, France
- Sadhvi Dar, Queen Mary University of London, UK
- David Harvie, disaffiliated
- Chris Land, Anglia Ruskin University, UK
- Marianne Maeckelbergh, Leiden University, The Netherlands
- Bronwen Morgan, University of New South Wales, Australia
- Sine Nørholm Just, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark
- Peter North, University of Liverpool, UK
- Craig Prichard, Massey University, New Zealand
- Hugh Willmott, City, University of London, UK
If you want to discuss a proposal, email the series editors Daniel King at Nottingham Trent University on daniel.king@ntu.ac.uk, or Martin Parker at Bristol University on martin.parker@bristol.ac.uk. We look forward to hearing from you.
Co-operation and Co-operatives in 21st-Century Europe
This volume offers an important vision of co-operation as an alternative to the neoliberal market, exploring the cooperative model’s potential for driving environmental and socio-economic transformation in the post-COVID world.
Guerrilla Democracy
Mobile Power and Revolution in the 21st Century
Combining cutting edge theories with empirical research, this timely book offers an in-depth analysis of current platform-based radical movements to show how digital technologies revolutionise political and economic organising. This is an invaluable contribution to the emerging literature on the relationship between technology and society.
Reimagining Academic Activism
Learning from Feminist Anti-Violence Activists
Based on deep ethnographic research, this book explores new practices and ideas about activism in the fight against social inequality. The book is both about feminist activists and is an act of feminist activism, with the author’s experiences as a volunteer ethnographer in New Zealand sitting at its heart.
Studying Political Parties as Organizations
Four Perspectives on Denmark’s Alternative Party
This book unveils the evolution of the Alternative Party in Denmark, a young political entity that defied traditional structures. Dissecting the unprecedented organisational dynamics of this novel party through a cultural lens, the author opens a new area of enquiry to scholars in the field of management and organization studies.
Food Politics, Activism and Alternative Consumer Cooperatives
Using the example of Turkey, where neoliberal economics combined with authoritarian politics formed conditions that have profound social consequences, this book investigates Alternative Consumer Cooperatives (ACCs) as spaces for prefigurative food politics.
Organising for Change
Social Change Makers and Social Change Organisations
Based on decades of research, this book explores global social change processes through the concepts of social change organisations (SCOs) and social change makers (SCMs) – the individuals working within and alongside SCOs.
Anarchist Cybernetics
Control and Communication in Radical Politics
Igniting a new field of scholarly inquiry, this pioneering book introduces cybernetic thinking to politics and organizational studies to explore the continuing development of the radical idea of participatory democracy within organizations.
Organizing Food, Faith and Freedom
Imagining Alternatives
Based on an autoethnographic study about a free food store in Aotearoa New Zealand, this book examines how alternative economies and relations emerge from community solutions, and how these could be used to think, act and organize differently against capitalist dynamics.