Dis/organization as Communication

Consuelo Vásquez is an Associate Professor in the Département de Communication Sociale et Publique at the Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada. Her research interests include ethnography, project organizing, volunteering and the communicative constitution of organizations. Her work appears in such venues as Communication Theory, Human Relations and Qualitative Research in Organizational and Management.Timothy R. Kuhn is Professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Colorado Boulder, USA. His research addresses the constitution of authority and agency in organizational action, with particular attention to how knowledge, identities, and conceptions of value emerge in sociomaterial, power-laden communication practices. His research has been published in Organization Studies, Academy of Management Review, Academy of Management Annals, Organization, Management Communication Quarterly, and Communication Monographs, among others.

• Introduction Part ICommunicational Explanations of Dis/Organization 1 Constituting Order and Disorder: Embracing Tensions andContradictions Linda L. Putnam2 Communication as Dis/Organization: How to AnalyzeTensions from a Relational Perspective François Cooren and Pascale Caïdor3 The Queen Bee Outlives Her Own Children: A LuhmannianPerspective on Project-Based Organizations (PBOs) Michael Grothe-Hammer and Dennis Schoeneborn4 Rethinking Order and Disorder: Accounting forDisequilibrium in Knotted Systems of Paradoxical Tensions Gail T. Fairhurst and Mathew L. Sheep5 Feeling Things, Making Waste: Hoarding and theDis/Organization of Affect Karen Lee Ashcraft6 Communication Constitutes Capital: Branding and thePolitics of Neoliberal Dis/Organization Dennis K. MumbyPart IIMethodological Toolbox for Studying Dis/Organization 7 Dis/Ordering: The Use of Information and CommunicationTechnologies by Human Rights Civil Society Organizations Oana Brindusa Albu8 Disorganizing Through Texts: The Case of A.K. Rice’sAccount of Socio-technical Systems TheoryAnindita Banerjee and Brian Bloomfield9 The Paradox of Digital Civic Participation: ADisorganization Approach Amanda J. Porter and Michele H. Jackson10 Organizing from Disorder: Internet Memes asSubversive Style Peter Winkler and Jens Seiffert -Brockmann11 Extreme Context as Figures of Normalcy and Emergency:Reorganizing a Large-Scale Vaccine Campaign in theDR Congo Frédérik Matte