Investigating Online Unmanaged Organization

The purpose of this chapter is to illustrate how to collect and analyse narratives about organizations provided by employees on the internet. Blogs, social media, and employee review platforms give a rich dataset for investigating how employees make sense of different aspects of organizational culture, work, and human resource politics and practices. We present challenges and paths to do this kind of research using antenarrative analysis (Boje, 2001)—a proper qualitative methodology to deal with fragmented narratives that are typical on the internet. We studied narratives from employees about non-hierarchical organizations archived on Glassdooor, the main global employee review platform.

Ecopopulis Paradigm In Peat Land Management In Barito Kuala District

The environmental crisis is getting worse these days, resulting in a debate about the paradigm of natural resource management to emerge. The aspiration for sustainable natural resource management is getting stronger from civil society movements and the wider community. The purpose of this research is to describe eco-populist thoughts and actions in peatland management and to strengthen the position of the eco-populist paradigm as the right paradigm in peatland management. This research is qualitative research with a case study approach, namely research conducted intensively, in detail and in-depth on a problem that is the object of research. The results of this study contribute to a fundamental-philosophical error in peatland management. Promote a sustainable perspective on peatland management based on local knowledge, reinforced by paradigmatic studies. A perspective that harmonizes ecological and human (community) interests. Not a viewpoint that ignores certain subsystems. In natural resource politics, there are at least three paradigms. First, the conservationist paradigm, which places natural resources solely for conservation. Second, the developmentalistic paradigm, which views natural resources as development assets. Third, the eco-populistic paradigm, which is a holistic perspective that humans, flora and fauna and their environment are one ecosystem. The loss of one element shakes the joints of the other component. Peat management is one of the world's highlights today. The critical issue is that climate change is linked to the destruction of peat due to unsustainable management. Until now, peatland management is still dominant with a developmentalism cum conservationist paradigm. So it is necessary to strengthen paradigmatic in sustainable peatland management.

Divergent memories and visions of the future in conflicts over mining development

Conflicts over extractive development often center around predicting future profits and economic growth, and estimating industrial pollution. How these projections are understood and seen as legitimate and trustworthy depends on social actors' environmental imaginaries and timescapes. Thus, I examine the temporal and cultural dynamics of natural resource politics, particularly how affective connections to the past and future mobilize support and opposition to new mining. I use the case of proposed copper mines in the rural Minnesota Iron Range region to explore the different environmental imaginaries and timescapes that mining opponents and proponents use to understand the potential socio-environmental impacts, and to legitimate their positions. Proponents, including long-time and working class Iron Range residents and mining corporations, view the region as an industrial landscape built by mining and hope new proposals will renew the past to create a prosperous future. Meanwhile, environmental groups who oppose mining view the region through an environmental imaginary based on outdoor recreation, and draw on collective memories of family and youth trips to understand new extractive projects as a rupture to their vision of the future. I show that resource extraction is understood through temporalities that differ across intersections of class and region, and that emotional meanings of the past and visions of the future animate contemporary political action.Keywords: Resource extraction, mining, environmental imaginaries, timescapes, collective memory, environmental politics, emotions

Natural Resources, Energy Politics, and Environmental Consequences

Life on Earth is undergoing major changes due to the converging and rapidly accelerating climate, biodiversity, pollution, and other environmental crises and emergencies. Global environmental and ecological constraints, consequences, and politics are becoming mainstream and necessary components to include in analysis across scientific fields. Over-extraction of resources in destructive ways is leading key ecosystems into states of collapse, species and habitats are being lost at record rates, and tipping points are cascading to produce a chaotic transformation. In this setting, resource extraction, in its varied forms, needs to be urgently analyzed in terms of its impacts and politics to understand, explain, transform, regulate, and govern the way natural resource sectors and actors affect the web of life. To this end, this article opens up natural resource politics, and how their unfolding has been analyzed globally and sectorially. Most of the studies related to or discussing the topic of extraction focus on the negative impacts of these projects, their developmental impacts, or the characteristics of conflicts related to extraction. Fewer studies focus on explaining what are the politics that lead to negative impacts, development, or conflicts. The studies on the politics behind extractive investment outcomes discuss the causal paths from political actions to extraction in different contexts mostly tangentially. Yet, constructivist studies by social scientists on natural resources have shown how resources and spaces of extracting resources are also created in social and political processes, which are typically international and related to existing power relations. Resources do not just exist out there, but are imagined when a part of nature is framed as a natural resource, and some areas are turned into sacrifice zones for extraction. These are places being destroyed as they do not matter to their extractors. The span of these localities has expanded over nations and subcontinents, placing us all in the sacrifice zone now, as Naomi Klein elucidates in This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate. This bibliography covers first the textbooks, followed by an assessment of the key dynamics in which resource politics are embedded, such as conflicts and developmental interventions, and their key actors: civil society, corporations, states, and global actors. Last, the particularities for different targets and sectors of extraction are assessed, including trees and forests, minerals, hydrocarbons and energy, water, and food and feed. For databases and resources, journals, and methodology of studying resource politics, please see the Oxford Bibliographies article “Politics of Extraction: Theories and New Concepts for Critical Analysis” which focuses on the key theories and organizing concepts.

Book review: Dolly Kikon. 2019. Living with Coal and Oil: Resource Politics and Militarization in Northeast India

Dolly Kikon. 2019. Living with Coal and Oil: Resource Politics and Militarization in Northeast India. Seattle: University of Washington Press. xiv + 189 pp. Maps, figures, notes, bibliography, Index. US$30 (paperback).