Story-Spaces and Transformation: The Caravan Project

In Untold Stories in Organizations, Michal Izak, Linda Hitchin, David Anderson (Eds). London: Routledge.
Maria Daskalaki, Alexandra Saliba, Stratis Vogiatzis Thekla Malamou (2014)

ABSTRACT In this chapter, we discuss untold stories in relation to space and transformative creativity. We present the Caravan Project, a visual ethnographic project that gives voice to marginalized stories through film documentaries. These documentaries, when re-territorialized in diverse social contexts, produce story-spaces within which untold stories can emerge. We discuss two specific story-spaces and explain how transformative creativity transcends fixed subject positions towards polyvocal modes of becoming. In this context, we propose three properties, mobility, multiplicity and permeability that render creative story-spaces rhizomatic. Consequently, story-spaces encourage fluid, heterogeneous and volatile interactions and through that, maintain their potential to elicit untold stories.

Link to the Caravan project

“Les Misérables, Deuxième Partie, Insurrection and Resistance at the Heart of Entrepreneurship”

Paper presented at the 8th International Conference in Critical Management Studies
10 Jul 2013-12 Jul 2013

The University of Manchester. Manchester, United Kingdom The current crisis has created a new spirit of resisting the main business models that affect the way in which people work and generate new businesses. In particular, the neoliberal narrative of entrepreneurial wealth and innovation has been superseded (and challenged) by narratives that emphasise the resilience and resistance of communities across part of Europe. Like in the case of Argentina’s financial crisis, these communities appear to alter the way in which we understand entrepreneurship embracing critical discourses that act and enact forms of resisting the cannons of how to generate, produce and work. Here, we found new forms of entrepreneurial activities that reflect practices forgotten in Europe and which are usually associated to barefoot entrepreneurs and indigenous entrepreneurs. Thus, these epitomise a new spirit of entrepreneurship embedded in insurrection and revolt.xxxx

See more here: Entrepreneurship as resistance

“Les Misérables, Deuxième Partie, Insurrection and Resistance at the Heart of Entrepreneurship”

Paper presented at the 8th International Conference in Critical Management Studies; 10 Jul 2013-12 Jul 2013; The University of Manchester. Manchester, United Kingdom.

The current crisis has created a new spirit of resisting the main business models that affect the way in which people work and generate new businesses. In particular, the neoliberal narrative of entrepreneurial wealth and innovation has been superseded (and challenged) by narratives that emphasise the resilience and resistance of communities across part of Europe. Like in the case of Argentina’s financial crisis, these communities appear to alter the way in which we understand entrepreneurship embracing critical discourses that act and enact forms of resisting the cannons of how to generate, produce and work. Here, we found new forms of entrepreneurial activities that reflect practices forgotten in Europe and which are usually associated to barefoot entrepreneurs and indigenous entrepreneurs. Thus, these epitomise a new spirit of entrepreneurship embedded in insurrection and revolt.

See more here: Entrepreneurship as resistance

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