Abstracts

Designing and Transforming Capitalism
Thursday/Friday 9-10 February 2012
Aarhus University, Denmark

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1. Anne Balsamo (School of Cinematic Arts, Annenberg School of Communication and Journalism, University of Southern California)
   Designing Culture: The Role of Culture in Innovation
   Keynote
2. Campbell Jones (Department of Sociology at the University of Auckland )
   Can the market speak?
   Keynote
3. Katherine Gibson (Centre for Citizenship and Public Policy, University of Western Sydney)
   Take Back the Economy, Any Time, Any Place: A Manual for Constituting Community Economies
   Keynote
4. Steen Nepper Larsen, (GNOSIS - Mind and Thinkiong, DPU, AU)
   The Articulation of ‘the We’ in Cognitive Capitalism
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5. Dr. Anna Feigenbaum (The American International University in London)
   Dr. Fabian Frenzel (University of West England)
   Dr. Patrick McCurdy (University of Ottawa)
   The ‘Postcapitalist’ politics of Protest Camps
   Suggested stream: Performative Capitalism
6. Blair Taylor (New School for Social Research Politics Department)
   Transformations of the American Left: Anarchism, Antiglobalization, and the New Spirit of Capitalism
   Suggested stream: Civic, Performative, or Consumer Capitalism
7. Ester Barinaga (Associate Professor, Management, Politics and Philosophy, Copenhagen Business School)
   Voices of the Suburbs – The paradox of symbolic resistance
   Suggested stream: Performative Capitalism
8. Ole Bjerg (Cand.scient.soc, PhD, Post doc)
   Hrafnkell Birgisson (Dipl. Produkt Designer, Birgisson Design)
   Designing Money
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9. Tatiana Bazzichelli (transmediale festival for digital art and culture, Berlin/Dept. of Aesthetics and Communication, Aarhus University)
   Constrance Kampf (Dept. of Business Communication, Aarhus University)
   Søren Pold (Dept. of Aesthetics and Communication, Aarhus University)
   Geoff Cox (Dept. of Aesthetics and Communication, Aarhus University/Plymouth University)
   Christian Ulrik Andersen (Dept. of Aesthetics and Communication, Aarhus University)
   DON'T HATE THE BUSINESS, BECOME THE BUSINESS
   Panel
10. Johan Alvehus (PhD, Department of Service Management, Lund university)
    On the anatomy of financialization: The construction of scarcity in a professional service firm
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11. Jacob Dahl Rendtorff (Dep. of Communication, Business and Information Technologies, Roskilde University)
    Beyond the single objective of Profit maximization: Does Stakeholder theory as a radical transformation of the corporation?
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12. Dr. Manuel Wörsdörfer (Cluster of Excellence “Formation of Normative Orders“, Frankfurt University)
    Compatibility of Self-Interest and the Common Good: On the Fundamental Question of Economic Ethics
    Suggested stream: Civic Capitalism
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14. Mor Kandlik Eltanani (Tel Aviv University / University of Edinburgh)
    Between the Social and the Economic: Microenterprise Instructors in Israel
    Suggested stream: Political Capitalism
15. Mikkel Thorup (Department of the History of Ideas, Aarhus University)
    Pro Bono? Philanthrocapitalism as ideological supplement to hypercapitalism
    Suggested stream: Political Capitalism
16. Maja Hojer Bruun (PhD student, Department of Anthropology, University of Copenhagen)
    Moral Economies in Danish Housing Cooperatives
    Suggested stream: Political Capitalism
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18. M. A. Alfonso Del Percio (Doktorant SNF, Institute for Media and Communications Management (MCM3), Universität St. Gallen)
    Mi-Cha Flubacher (Institute of Multilingualism, University/University of Teacher Education Fribourg, Switzerland)
    Coming up against capitalism: Economic interventionism and the appropriation of diversity.
    Suggested stream: Political Capitalism
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21. Iris Rittenhofer (Associate professor, EKOM, Business and Social Sciences, Aarhus University)
    Personal commitment and business design
    Suggested stream: Green Capitalism OR Performative Capitalism
22. Nalan Ova & Çada Ceyhan & M. Berkay Aydın
    How Women's Everyday Life Has Changed While the Capitalist State was Transforming
    Suggested stream: Political Capitalism
23. Holly Eva Ryan (PhD Candidate, City University London)
    Tupinãodá and contentious politics: The experience of Brazil's first street art collective
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24. Kåre Moberg ( )
    Who is the entrepreneur(ship student)?
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25. Robert Willim (Associate Professor, Artist Department of Arts and Cultural Sciences Lund University)
    Coming Close? -Techno-Culture and The Longings for Intimacy
    Suggested stream: Performative Capitalism
26. Marina Kaneti (Politics Department, 7th Floor New School for Social Research New York)
    Radical Exclusion and Social Entrepreneurship: The New Spirit of Capitalism or Alternative Economic Spaces?
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27. Johan Söderberg (Sociologiska institutionen, Göteborg)
    Putting a factory on every kitchen table
    Suggested stream: Political Capitalism
28. Dr. Uri Zilbersheid (Senior Lecturer in Political Philosophy, Program for National Security Studies, University of Haifa, Israel)
    The Origins and Principles of the Welfare State and Its Contribution to Social Wellbeing, Democracy and Peace
    Suggested stream: Political Capitalism
29. Anna-Maria Murtola ( )
    Expropriation of the affective commons
    Suggested stream: Political Capitalism
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31. Cecilia Cassinger (Essex Business School, University of Essex)
    Henrik Loodin (Department of Service Management, Lund University)
    Better than oneself: Exploring the political mechanisms of the self-enhancement industry in advanced capitalism
    Suggested stream: Political Capitalism
32. Hervé Corvellec, Richard Ek & Johan Hultman (Department for Service Management, Lund University)
    Waste as socio-material critique
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33. Lise Juul Madsen (Cand. comm. (Human Geography and Performance Design)
    Louise Skafte Salm von Müllen (Cand.comm (Social Science and Performance Design), Roskilde University)
    Performative Urban Design
    Suggested stream: Performative Capitalism
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35. Arjen Kleinherenbrink ( )
    Incorporation: capitalism's immortality and its effect on us
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36. Soji Oyeranm (Olabisi Onabanjo University, Ago Iwoye, Nigeria)
    Economic Globalization as Neo Imperialism In sub-Saharan Africa; The Multinational  Corporations' operations in Nigeria, 1960-2010
    Suggested stream: Civic Capitalism
37. Laurent Marti (University of St. Gallen, Switzerland)
    Pascal Dey (University of St. Gallen, Switzerland)
    The Sociology of Flows as Critique of Capitalism. Mapping Alternative Forms of Organizing.
    Suggested stream: Political Capitalism
38. Elaine Gan (University of California at Santa Cruz)
    Considering Rice
    Suggested stream: Green Capitalism / Performative Capitalism
39. Rogers Tabe Egbe Orock (Department of Anthropology, Archaeology, and Linguistics, Aarhus University, Denmark)
    Within and Beyond Corporate Social Responsibility: Africa, Transnational Corporations, and the Promise of Globalisation
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40. Patrick Cockburn (PhD Candidate, Institute for Culture and Society, Aarhus University)
    Street Papers and economic legitimacy
    Suggested stream: Political Capitalism
41. Ana María Munar (Ph.D, Associate Professor, Department of International Economics and Management)
    Exploitation and Emancipation in Tourism Social Media
    Suggested stream: Consumer Capitalism
42. Jan Rohgalf (Universität Rostock, Germany)
    Is Indignation the new Emancipation? Some remarks on 'Occupy', emancipation and late-modern political imaginaries
    Suggested stream: Political Capitalism
43. Agnieszka Ziomek (PhD, Economic Policy and Local Government Chair, Poznan University of Economics, Poland)
    Determinants and mobilization of local-level participation in the approach of heterodox economics   [Full paper]
    Suggested stream: Civic Capitalism
44. Jan Løhmann Stephensen (Institut for Æstetiske Fag, Afd. for Æstetik & Kultur, Aarhus Universitet)
    Creative Capitalism and the Technologies of Cooperation
    Suggested stream: Performative Capitalism / Consumer Capitalism
45. Christian Olaf Christiansen (Dept. of History of Ideas, Institute for Philosophy and History of Ideas, Aarhus University)
    ’Civic Capitalism’ as the new ‘spirit’ of capitalism, and three ways to criticise it
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46. Shann Turnbull (PhD; Principal: International Institute for Self-governance, PO Box 266, Woollahra, Sydney Australia)
    Sustaining society with ecological capitalism    [Full paper]
    Suggested stream: Civic or Performative Capitalism
47. Kamila Bialy (Institute of Sociology, University of Lodz, Poland)
    Biographical Shaping of Managerial Careers – A New Type of Collective Identities
    Suggested stream: Political Capitalism
48. Gorm Harste (Assoc. professor, Department of Political Science, Aarhus University)
    System Crisis and System Evolution – Observations of Structural Couplings in an Accelerated Society
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49. Bianca Elzenbaumer, Francesca Coluzzi, Caterina Giuliani (London/Venice/Urbino)
    Construction site for non-affirmative practice: building collective support structures for critically-engaged designers
    Suggested stream: Political Capitalism or Consumer Capitalism
50. Kjetil Sandvik (MA, PHD, Associate Professor, Dept. Media, Cognition and Communication, KU)
    Media challenging capitalism: social media and the Occupy Wall Street-movement
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51. Camilla Møhring Reestorff (Department of Aesthetics and Communication, University of Aarhus)
    Don’t worry it is art! The paradox of buying diamonds and transforming capitalism
    Suggested stream: Performative Capitalism
52. Georgios Papadopoulos (Erasmus University Rotterdam, Circle of Lacanian Ideology Critique, Athens)
    Local Exchange Trading Systems as an Alternative to the Market
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53. Anna Seravalli (PhD candidate, MEDEA, Malmö Högskola)
    Designers’  friendly  hacking: prototypes and dilemmas
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54. Dr RITA KLAPPER (Assoc Prof, Rouen Business School, France)
    Dr PAUL UPHAM (Senior Research Fellow, Finnish Environment Institute, Manchester Institute of Innovation and University of Leeds)
    Prof LAURI TUOMI (Prof, Vice President, University of Applied Sciences, Helsinki)
    Entrepreneurial Growth perception among Finnish business practitioners – results from a qualitative investigation
    Suggested stream: Civic Capitalism
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56. Erika Andersson Cederholm (Department of Service Management, Lund University)
    Sociability and the market: Boundary negotiations in the commercial home
    Suggested stream: Political Capitalism
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59. Tarja Rautiainen-Keskustalo (Fixed-Term Professor, University of Tampere, School of Social Sciences and Humanities, Finland)
    Art as A Service - About the Concept of Creativeness in the Consumer- Capitalism
    Suggested stream: Consumer Capitalism
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62. Sophie Esmann Andersen (Associate Professor, PhD, Business and Social Science, Centre for Corporate Communication, AU) & Carsten Stage, AU
    Capitalism and DIY culture: Conflicts and convergences
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63. Hares Youssef (The 40 Foundation)
    Yurij Riphyak (London School of Economics, the 40 Foundation)
    Maksym Putiy (The 40 Foundation)
    Human and resource economic system – redesigning the capitalism paradigm
    Suggested stream: Consumer Capitalism
64. Teresa von Sommerauga Howard ()
    Anna Alexandersson ()
    Hildegun Nilsson Varhelyi and Anna Lundval ()
    Designing Participation: Enabling Transformation: A Participative Process.
    Panel
65. Silas Harrebye (PhD student, Roskilde University)
    Pelle Korsbæk Sørensen(PhD student, Roskilde University)
    New forms of politcal acton inside and outside capitalism
    Suggested stream: Political Capitalism
66. Sylmara Lopes Francelino-Gonçalves-Dias (Universidade de São Paulo)
    Patricia Mendonça (Centro Universitário FEI and Fundação Getúlio Varga)
    André Ofenhejm Mascarenhas (Centro Universitário da FEI – SP, Brasil)
    Mobilization against contemporary forms of slavery
    Suggested stream: Political Capitalism
67. Jens Erik Kristensen (Ph.D., associate professor, Department of Education, AU)
    Transformations of knowledge value and economic value in cognitive capitalism
    Suggested stream: Political Capitalism
68. Szilvia Gyimóthy (PhD, Associate Professor, Tourism Research Unit, Department of Culture and Global Studies, Aalborg Universitet, Campus Copenhagen)
    Co-enacting the Orange Feeling: Online Tribal Citizenship and Contested Rhetorical Visions
    Suggested stream: Consumer Capitalism
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72. Britta Timm Knudsen & Carsten Stage (Aarhus University)
    A politics of vulnerability: resistance vs. project identities
    Suggested stream: Performative Capitalism
73. Louise Fabian (Ph.D.,Institute of Culture and Society, University of Aarhus, Denmark
    The changing role of public space, capitalism and the politics of playing in the street in Hanoi, New York and Copenhagen
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74. KRISTINE SAMSON (Assistant Professor, Performance Design, Roskilde University)
    Affective Urbanism: The politics of affect in recent urban design
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