Organizing Hope

Edited by Daniel Ericsson, Associate Professor, School of Business and Economics, Linnaeus University, Sweden and Monika Kostera, Professor of Management, University of Warsaw, Poland, Guest Professor, Södertörn University, Sweden and Professeure Invitée à L'université Rennes, France

• Contents:Prologue by Anke Strau. and Christina Ciupke Introduction: Organizing hope: Narratives for a better future 1Daniel Ericsson and Monika KosteraPART ONE PHILOSOPHICAL AND THEORETICALINSPIRATIONS1 Hopeful organizing in the crucible of the interregnum 15Karl E. Weick2 Alternative futures: ‘Hope is a thing with feathers’ 19Martin Parker3 The utopian quest for an alternative 30Roland Paulsen4 Epimethean hope or Promethean expectation? The role oforganisational behaviour 37John Vaughan5 Transforming work into “play”: Genuine conversations as hopefor meaningful organizational change 49John G. McClellan6 Hope in business organizing for societal progress: Threenarratives 61Stewart Clegg, Ace Volkmann Simpson, Miguel Pina e Cunha,and Arm.nio Rego7 Post-Pandoran hope for moving wisely beyond the neo-Promethean Anthropocene 72Wendelin KüpersPART TWO EMPIRICAL AND IMAGINATIVE INSPIRATIONS8 ‘Hope-full purpose’: Time, oblivion, and the strange attractorsof Pandora’s box 85Richard Longman9 Against organization – farewell to hope? 96George Cairns10 Idealists and dreamers: Struggling for more resilientcommunities via alternative organisations 108Anna G.ral11 Cadriste (R)Evolution 120Markus Kallifatides12 The hope of discomfort: Using democratic citizenshipeducation for transformative learning 132Tali Padan13 Technologies of the commune: A bridge over troubled water? 142Daniel Ericsson14 “Dad, Do Not Cry”: Imagination and creativity on their ownterms in inclusive cities and communities 153Agata Morgan15 Street performances in hope for the future of the urban sphere:Human interaction, self-realization and emotive enactment 166Marta Połeć16 There is hope in organizing: Dialogic imagination againstlinearity 176Michał Izak and Monika Kostera17 Good labour: Affirmative work awareness and hope 188Małgorzata Ćwikła18 Actors of goodness and hope in action 199Aneta MilczarczykPostscript: Avalanche 210Karolina MatyjaszkowiczReferences 212Index 241

'A roller-coaster of emotion. A trans-disciplinary book full of questions about whether we dare to hope, what future is possible, and what we as readers need to go through to reach it. Importantly, alternative futures for institutions and communities are considered.'--Alison Pullen, Macquarie University, Australia'At a time in history when global political and corporate power elites seem hell-bent on leading us down an escalating path of economic inequality and environmental doom, hope can appear quaint. Railing against such defeatism, Daniel Ericsson and Monika Kostera have gathered together a group of authors who dare to imagine alternatives to that which is too often experienced as incontrovertible. They have produced an important book that not only interprets the world around us, but professes the radical idea that it might be changed for the better.'--Carl Rhodes, University of Technology Sydney, Australia