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After retrotopia? The future of organizing and the thought of Zygmunt Bauman

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  • Jerzy Kociatkiewicz

    (University of Sheffield [Sheffield])

  • Monika Kostera

    (UJ - Uniwersytet Jagielloński w Krakowie = Jagiellonian University)

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The main body of work of Zygmunt Bauman concerns his home discipline of sociology, but his insights have been influential also in the field of organization studies. In this text, we provide an overview of the extent of this influence, providing some additional context for positioning the other contributions to this special section. Afterwards, we explore in more detail two notions central for Bauman's late thought: that of liquidity and retrotopia. The former constitutes the root metaphor for theorizing the current global predicament. In this text, we analyse how two modes of interpreting it, using the assumptions behind Kurt Lewin's CATS model and the alchemical tradition underpinning Carl Gustav Jung's conception of archetypes respectively, can help us theorize the alternative modes of organizing and managing encountered in a study of contemporary alternative organizations. These insights form the starting point for our second goal: to explore Bauman's notion of retrotopia as a potentially fruitful starting point for discussing both the deficiencies of current visions of our future society, and the possibilities and vicissitudes of developing new forms of organizing and managing. Such new forms, both as practice and as theoretical constructs, are urgently needed if we are to face the numerous, and potentially catastrophic global challenges facing our society today.

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  • Jerzy Kociatkiewicz & Monika Kostera, 2018. "After retrotopia? The future of organizing and the thought of Zygmunt Bauman," Post-Print hal-02400973, HAL.
    • Handle: RePEc:hal:journl:hal-02400973
    DOI: 10.1016/j.scaman.2018.05.003
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