Managing Racial Capital
International Workshop Symposium at the John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies, Freie Universität Berlin, June 30 – July 1, 2017
Deadline: May 22, 2017
Since the rise of managerial culture in the nineteenth century, the term management has been used primarily to describe a structure and practice of business organization that oversees and regulates the relation between labor and capital. Yet the concept of management has also gained immense traction outside the realm of business and labor relations. The internalization of a capitalist ethos of productivity has led to a widespread proliferation of the language of management to all aspects of our everyday lives, specifically in the form of self-management and self-optimization. We manage our relationships, emotions, bodies, time, energy, and financial resources, all towards the goal of living more efficient lives. All of these are currently topics of interest in our field. What needs to be more fully investigated, however, is the role that race plays and has played in the history and development of management as both concept and practice.
Projects could be on, but are not limited to the following topics:
- Racial capitalism
- Management and slavery
- Settler colonialism
- Imperial acquisition and property rights
- Reservation management and Native land rights
- Indigenous law and tribal governance
- Statistics and Race
- Segregation
- Race and (legal) personhood
- Eugenics and birth control
- Housing policies and disease control
- Health and food regulations
- Insurance claims and risk management
- Administrative practices and bureaucratic organization
- Disability and access
- Multicultural management
- Religious freedom and restriction in the workplace
- Self-management, self-optimization, and empowerment
- Affirmative action
- Race and Critical University Studies
Students of color are especially encouraged to apply.
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