Cultural Representations of Economy and Organization

Seminar with Martin Parker, University of Leicester, UK, arranged by Department of Organization.

How do we manage to think of economy and organization as belonging to a different domain than culture and representation? Why do management academics imagine that ‘culture’ only exists in states and organizations? And how could one imagine that something called ‘the economy’ was not part of culture, politics and the state?

Business schools teach a form of knowledge that attempts to fit people into markets. States organize their administration in order not to stifle enterprise. And those involved in studying (and practicising) cultural production are often reduced to railing against the utilitarians who reduce everything to the bottom line.

At this seminar Martin Parker presents his approach to this problem by looking at places where the economy appears to end, and culture appears to begin. Or, to put it another way, he suggest that we look at cultural representations of the economic, and pay particular attention to the boundaries that are then drawn.

Read more about the Seminar and Martin Parker here

Registration

As seats are limited, please register via email to Anders Bojesen ab.ioa@cbs.dk