Dear Friends and Presenters:
I have posted many of the abstracts and papers for the 2000 IABD -
Critical Postmodern Organization Theory conference track on the web. Please
circulate the info to those who may have an interest.
Info on the conference -
http://cbae.nmsu.edu/~dboje/deconvegas.html
to be held Mar 30 to April 2nd, 2000
Papers/abstracts are at
http://cbae.nmsu.edu/~dboje/wtwo/iabd2000sch.html
topics range for deconstruction, postmodern, critical theory, organizational
change, diversity, and more. I will be adding more as I receive updates of
papers from individual presenters.
Here is a list of presenters and topics in order of their schedule and you
will find contact info and links to most presenters:
1. David Boje, New Mexico State University
"Las Vegas as Spectacle" background and paper
"Las Vegas Striptease Spectacles: Organization Power over the Body"
2. Steve Linstead, University of Sunderland, UK
"Death in Vegas: Seduction, Kitsch, and Sacrifice"
3. Steve Best, University of Texas, El Paso, and Douglas Kellner, UCLA
"Debord, Cybersituations, and the Interactive Spectacle"
Please consult Kellner's (Texas Site) or (UCLA site) for related papers.
4. Mark Gottdeiner, Syracuse University
"Las Vegas: The social production of an all American city"
5. "Roast" of Gottdiener's Book (Press Here)
Steven Best, University of Texas, El Paso
Douglas Kellner, University of California, Los Angeles
David M. Boje, New Mexico State University
6. Robert F. Dennehy, Lubin School of Business, Pace University
"The Celtic Storyteller Visits Las Vegas"
7. A. Fuat Firat, Arizona State University West
"The Meanings and Messages of Las Vegas: The Present of Our Future"
8. Slawomir Magala, Erasmus University Rotterdam
"Knowledge Gambles (Academic Casinos and Paradigmatic Roulettes)"
9. Robert Gephart, University of Alberta
"Simulacra, Safe Risk and the Management of Recreation"
10. Dominique Besson, IAE, Lille, France
"From Gramsci's Americanism to Postmodern deconstruction of
involvement/empowerment via Foucault's Discipline and Derrida's differance"
11. Ron Purser, San Francisco State University
"Virtualization of Consciousness or Conscious Virtualization: Las Vegas vs.
Lhasa"
12. Cliff Oswick and Tom Keenoy, King's College, The University of London
"Re-Configuring Fiction and Reality: A Critical Discourse Analysis of
Cinematic Representations of Las Vegas"
13. Ken Ehrensal, Kutztown University "Las Vegas -- A Labor Perspective"
14. Alexis Downs, University of Oklahoma
"Deconstructing Lefty: The trickster meets Oedipus"
15. Philip Tietjen, New Mexico Highlands University
"Troubling Threats to Mediation: The Intrusion of 'Legalese'"
16. Terence Krell, Deloit and Touche; Andrew Grimes, University of Kentucky;
Deborah Rood, Troy State University
"Reconstructing Las Vegas: Retrospective Sense Making?"
17. Hugo Letiche, University of Humanist Studies Utrecht NL CSTT Keele
University
UK
"St Saturnin as Deconstruction of Las Vegas"
18. Adrian Carr, University of Western Sidney, Nepean
"Parable of the Oarsmen: Adding to Homer in the Quest to Understand
the "Imago" Las Vegas"
19. Gerald S. McCain, Southern Illinois University, and Miguel Alcantara,
New Mexico
State University;
"Pedagogical Politics as Perceived by Mexican Immigrant Students in U.S.
Schools: A
Matter of Identity"
20. Vivian Chen, Syracuse University
"Can I be postmodern and Taiwanese at the same time?"
21. Tojo Joseph Thatchenkery, George Mason University
"Asian Americans under the model minority gaze: Implications for diversity
research"
22. Robert S. Sardy, California School of Professional Psychology
"Las Vegas and Queer Theory"
23. José G. Vargas, Centro Universitario del Sur, Universidad de
Guadalajara, Mexico
"At the Crossroads of Paradigms: Mexican Organizations in Transition"
24. Maria Elena Alvarado, Centro para la Orientacion de la Mujer Obrera,
Mexico, and
Eduardo Barrera, COLEF-Mexico/The University of Texas at El Paso
"The Rebellion of the Object: Mimicry and Subversion among Maquiladora
Informants"
25. Diane Grimes, Syracuse University
"Making the Book Speak": A Critique of the Organization Studies Literature
on Race"
26. Russell Belk, David Eccles School of Business, University of Utah
"Las Vegas as Farce, Consumption as Play"
27. Stanley Deetz, University of Colorado
"An Interdisciplinary Gamble: Las Vegas, Organizational Communication, and
Cultural Studies"
28. Usha C. V. Haley, New Jersey Institute of Technology. Rutgers University
(Newark) and the Australian National University
"Unveiling the model economy of Singapore Inc"
29. Robin Matthews and Hosein Piranfar, Kingston University, UK
"Three Narratives of Identity and Reputation: Applications to the Financial
Sector"
30. Gurpreet Dhillon and James Douglas Orton, University of Nevada Las Vegas
"Schizoid Incoherence, Microstrategic Options, and the Management of New
Organizational Forms"
31. Arzu Iseri, Bogazii University, Istanbul - Turkey
"A Story: of Banks and Nomads"
32. Nancy Landrum, New Mexico State University
"An Ethnostatistical Analysis of the Nike-Tuck Report"
33. Alfonso Montuori, California Institute of Integral Studies
"Beyond Postmodernism: Creativity, Complexity, and the Challenge of
Reconstruction"
34. John Luhman and David Boje, New Mexico State University
"A Literary Perspective of the Meta-Theory Debate"
35. Ann L. Cunliffe, University of New Hampshire
"Social Poetics : Possibilities for Critical and Postmodern Research"
36. Julianne Kruly, California School of Professional Psychology
"What Do We Think We're Doing? A Study of Social Responsibility in the
Organizational Consultant-Client Relationship"
37. Lori Paris, New Mexico State University
"You, Me, and Ecology": The Spectacle of Perpetuating the McHappy Myth"
38. Grace Ann Rosile, New Mexico State University
"The Electric Horseman Revisits Las Vegas: Exploitation and the Nature of
Nature"