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The Role of Participation, Organizational Democracy and Self-Management in the Futures We Want. Part I

Tuesday, 12 July 2016: 14:15-15:45
Location: Seminarraum 5C G (Neues Institutsgebäude (NIG))
RC10 Participation, Organizational Democracy and Self-Management (host committee)

Language: French and English

The “Futures we want” should foster participation, organizational democracy and self-management. Most often than not however, the responses to the crisis have, on the contrary, recently entailed in many countries unpopular austerity measures decided in a top-down and technocratic manner that have threatened existing social and political participative schemes. Thus participation and organizational democracy seem to be shrinking rather than increasing at the global level. Increasing inequality, oppression, and ecological destruction have also brought about protests and struggles for a better world. 
How are different forces positioned to shape futures? What visions for alternative futures are imaginable, desirable, and achievable that include democracy and participation at all levels? What can we learn from comparing struggles in different countries and settings? What are viable roadmaps for participative social transformation? 
This session will focus on how the futures we want can include an increased role for democracy and participation at all levels, from the workplace to the political sphere.
Session Organizer:
Isabel DA COSTA, CNRS-IDHE, École Normale Supérieure de Cachan, France
Chair:
Eleni NINA-PAZARZI, University of Piraeus, Greece
Posters:
Democracy Against Capitalism?!
Heinz SUENKER, Wuppertal University, Germany
A Research Review on Democratic Firms: Employee-Related and Societal Outcomes for Alternative Futures?
Wolfgang WEBER, University of Innsbruck, Institute of Psychology, Innrain 52, A-6020 Innsbruck, Austria; Christine UNTERRAINER, University of Innsbruck, Institute of Psychology, Innrain 52, A-6020 Innsbruck, Austria; Thomas HOGE, University of Innsbruck, Institute of Psychology, Innrain 52, A-6020 Innsbruck, Austria
The Methods of Management: an Answer to the Crisis?
Jocelyne ROBERT, University of Liege, Belgium
Evaluation for Radical Democratic Transitions
Daniel SILVER, University of Manchester, United Kingdom
Democratic Activism: Between Organizing and Spontaneity
Mohsen ABBASZADEH MARZBALI, University of Tehran, Iran