TALK: A Discursive Perspective on Field-Configuring Events: The Case of the Stockholm Convention
Cynthia Hardy (Management, University of Melbourne, Australia)
Monday, November 23 / 3:30 PM
McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB
This presentation explores the United Nations conference on Persistent Organic Pollutants (POP's) that established new global rules for production, use, import/export, and disposal of toxic chemicals, and resulted in the 2004 Stockholm International Treaty. The study treats this conference as a field-configuring event that opens up discursive spaces, leads to new narratives, and sets the stage for developing coordinated solutions to complex social problems. Cynthia Hardy is Professor of Management, University of Melbourne, Australia. Her research interests include discourse, identity, collaboration, and institutional change. She is the co-founder of the International Centre for Research in Organizational Discourse, Strategy and Change and she co-edited The SAGE Handbook of Organizational Discourse and The Handbook of Organizational Studies, which won the 1997 Terry Book Award from the Academy of Management Association.
Sponsored by the IHC’s LISO RFG and the Dept. of Communication.
