Ecologies of Sustainable Concerns: Organization Theorizing for the Anthropocene

Seray Ergene, Marta B. Calás and Linda Smircich

Gender, Work and Organization, 2018, vol. 25, issue 3, 222-245

Abstract: What if we imagine we have been leaving the épistème of the age of ‘Man at the center of knowledge’, the epoch which has brought us to the brink of ecological disaster through discourses and practices of advanced market capitalism, and move on to imagine that we are entering the age of the Anthropocene, positing the need for radically reconceptualizing the relationship between humanity and nature? What discourses and practices would carry this? What kind of knowledge would be possible? Who would be the subject of such knowledge? Inspired by Braidotti's definition of cartography as a method and Latour's articulation of matters of fact and matters of concern, we bring together a variety of feminist ecological perspectives, materialist and new materialist, to eventually assemble a cartographic lens we label ecologies of sustainable concerns. Such a lens would facilitate reclaiming ‘sustainability’ in organization studies discourses and practices for living well and living with others in the Anthropocene. It is our expectation that in reclaiming ‘sustainability’ through the feminist literatures we are using, and their discursive variations, it would become clearer that there are options for an economy and ecology beyond what is permissible to say and do as knowledge in organization studies under advanced market capitalism.

Date: 2018
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