Critical Management Studies and the Skeleton in the Car Park
With all the media hype surrounding the forthcoming Critical Management Studies conference, Martin Parker reminds us of something which might otherwise have escaped our attention Some bones were found under a car park in Leicester recently. The City, County and University have all enthusiastically exploited this discovery for tourism and student recruitment purposes. The national […]
The Interviewer becomes the Interviewed
Recently appointed Lecturer in Work and Employment, Benjamin Hopkins, ponders a little about how he has been represented in the popular media, and a lot about how research subjects are represented within academic media. The forthcoming election has sparked a flurry of television programmes discussing immigration: Channel 4’s UKIP: The First 100 Days, ITV’s Tonight: […]
The Protection of Knowledge as the Production of Ignorance
Geoff Lightfoot and Tomasz Wisniewski, Senior Lecturers in the School’s Finance and Accounting Group, describe information asymmetry as a politically prevalent predicament about which we should all be concerned Knowledge production has always been a political matter to the extent that it has always coincided with the production of ignorance. The Ancient Egyptian priests protected […]
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