Ian Munro
Biographic Data
| ID | 297768 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ian Munro |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ian |
| FAMILY NAME | Munro |
| SIGNATURE | MUNRO I |
| AFFILIATIONS | Newcastle University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3953-9372 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 37 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 91 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 37 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1971 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Fiction and Bearing Witness to Corporate Crimes: The Work of Novelists in Business Ethics and Organizational Reform
Transnational corporate power, neo-colonialism and investigative journalism: A conversation with Matt Kennard
Purpose This viewpoint aims to contribute to understanding corporate power in two key respects. First, it provides insight into the ways in which transnational corporations continue to operate as vehicles for neo-colonial projects, which are underpinned by exploitation and racial hierarchies. Second, it highlights the significance of investigative journalism in providing a crucial empirical resource for both activists engaged in holding power to …
An inconvenient dissident: Human rights activism in the case of Julian Assange
The article is based on investigations by two branches of the United Nations Human Rights Council into the treatment of the whistleblower journalist, Julian Assange – the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention and The UN Special Rapporteur on Torture. The UN investigations analysed for this ‘Acting Up’ article show that Julian Assange is an inconvenient dissident, who has been subjected to persecution by liberal democracies rather than authorita…
Whistleblower as activist and exile: The case of Edward Snowden
Whistleblowing is an important form of radical political activism, influencing social reform by fundamentally changing the way we see our world. This article contributes to understandings of whistleblower-activism in cases of wrongdoing on the part of state institutions. Extant theorizations of organizational whistleblowing fall short in explaining such instances. In contrast, this article develops four key dynamics of state whistleblower-activis…
Exploring the dark and unexpected sides of digitalization: Toward a critical agenda
Digitalization has far-reaching implications for individuals, organizations, and society. While extant management and organization studies mainly focus on the positive aspects of this development, the dark and potentially unexpected sides of digitalization for organizations and organizing have received less scholarly attention. This special issue extends this emerging debate. Drawing on empirical material of platform corporations, social movement…
Dissensus! Radical Democracy and Business Ethics
The Cambridge Guide to the Worlds of Shakespeare
The Cambridge Guide to the Worlds of Shakespeare aims to replicate the expansive reach of Shakespeare's global reputation. In pursuit of that vision, this work is transhistorical, international and interdisciplinary. Volume 1, Shakespeare's World, 1500–1660, includes a comprehensive survey of the world in which Shakespeare and his contemporaries lived, while Volume 2, The World's Shakespeare, 1660–Present, examines what the world has made of Shak…
An interview with Chelsea Manning’s lawyer: Nancy Hollander on human rights and the protection of whistleblowers
This article presents an edited interview with Nancy Hollander, a prominent human rights activist and criminal defense lawyer. The primary focus of the interview is Ms Hollander’s work as the lead defense counsel for the whistleblower, Chelsea Manning. The main themes addressed in the interview are (a) the close links between the practice of whistleblowing and human rights activism, (b) the fact that whistleblowers are not only subject to retalia…
Dogs in organizations
What roles do dogs play in organizational life and formal organizations? Dogs are mostly ignored by organization theory despite the existence of a rich literature on human–animal studies that helps theoretical extension in the direction of organization studies. We discuss why and to what extent dogs are important actors in the lives of organizations and discuss reasons that explain such relevance in functional and symbolic terms. Overall, we sugg…
Information Warfare
Information warfare has become increasingly prominent over recent years across a range of social, political, and military domains. Mediated by rapidly evolving technology, communication networks have created new emancipatory opportunities for democratic protest, but have also revealed new vulnerabilities in these networks where we can become the targets of informational attacks. The idea of information warfare has developed both as a sociological…
An Interview with Snowden’s Lawyer: Robert Tibbo on Whistleblowing, Mass Surveillance and Human Rights Activism
Robert Tibbo is a prominent human rights lawyer and activist and is the defence lawyer of the National Security Agency whistleblower Edward Snowden. This interview may be of particular interest to researchers in the field of critical management studies regarding its discussion of (1) the close relationship between whistleblowing and human rights activism, (2) the use of new systems of global mass surveillance to target activists and journalists, …
Ethics of ambivalence in corporate branding
Recent research within the field of organization studies has begun to map out the social and political effects of ethical branding on consumers, employees and society, yet the relationship between employees and brands is still an under-developed area of research. The aim of this article is to investigate how an ethical brand is perceived by its employees and to reveal contradictions that emerge from employee accounts of company brand ethics. The …
Whistle-blowing and the politics of truth: Mobilizing ‘truth games’ in the WikiLeaks case
This article investigates the role of ‘truth’ as an object of contention within organizations, with specific reference to the ‘politics of truth’ in the WikiLeaks case. For an empirical illustration of a ‘truth game’, this article draws on varied accounts of the WikiLeaks whistle-blowing website. The article shows how different ‘truth games’ are mobilized by different organizational actors engaged in a politics of truth. The article demonstrates …
Organizational resistance as a vector of deterritorialization: The case of WikiLeaks and secrecy havens
This article investigates the relations of power and resistance manifest by the WikiLeaks network. The primary research question of this inquiry is, ‘what power relations and possibilities for resistance are presented by WikiLeaks as a novel form of network organization?’ The article shows that WikiLeaks has been able to exert influence from the periphery of existing networks by exploiting vectors of ‘deterritorialization’ to destabilize existing…
Kafkaesque power and bureaucracy
The metaphor of Kafkaesque bureaucracy has attracted the imagination of organization theorists for decades. While the critical and metaphorical approach offers vibrant insights about organizing, it has not been complemented by systematic empirical analysis. We take a step in that direction and conduct an inductive study of how people experience and deal with the Kafkaesque bureaucracy. We focus on the Kafkaesque organization as constructed in pro…
Animals and organizations
The territorial organization: History, divergence and possibilities
This paper introduces a new field to organization studies – that of organizational territoriality – as well as introducing the papers to the special issue on The Territorial Organization. Organization seen as territory may function symbolically, offering an additional metaphor to those suggested by Morgan, or materially, taking into account existing studies of organizational space and architecture. This paper integrates perspectives from anthropo…
Living Space’ at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe: Spatial tactics and the politics of smooth space
Space has become a key analytic concept for the study of organization. While much emphasis has been placed upon the role of designed spaces within the existing literature, as yet there has been little attention paid to the sociality of space and the spatial practices that people employ to enact workspaces. This inquiry provides an ethnographic study of the work of street artists at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. We investigate the spatial tactics…
Management of human capital: Discipline, security and controlled circulation in HRM
This article provides a contribution to the Foucauldian problematization of HRM. It draws particular attention to Foucault’s lectures that were devoted to re-conceptualizing power relations to accommodate transformations that have arisen from the emergence of liberal and neoliberal forms of government. Whilst Foucauldian approaches to HRM have mainly focused on the centripetal elements of disciplinary power in modern management, they have tended …
Kafka’s mythology: Organization, bureaucracy and the limits of sensemaking
Franz Kafka merits special consideration among the writers of the 20th century for his portrayal of organizational life and the ambivalent character of the social institutions that ostensibly exist to help us. In this article we will draw on his works to enrich our understanding of organizations in three key respects: i) in terms of his creation of a mythology of organization; ii) by developing the concept of ‘counter-mythology’ to extend existin…
The Acceptability and Efficacy of a Group Cognitive Behavioural Therapy Programme in a Community Mental Health Setting
The Territorial Organization’: A special issue of Culture and Organization
The act of interpretation involves creating maps or representations that simplify some territory in order to facilitate action. (Weick 1993, 361) Although the activity of mapping has received susta
Foucault’s Care of the Self: A Case from Mental Health Work
This research concerns mental health workers who treat the victims of sexual abuse. The health workers were all part of a forum composed of doctors, counsellors and a community psychiatric nurse, who met to discuss issues of best practice in their everyday work. The research examined how these workers make sense of their work, particularly in terms of how they understand the concept of care and the kinds of knowledge that they use in their work, …
Defending the Network Organization: An Analysis of Information Warfare with Reference to Heidegger
It is now a commonplace notion in management thinking that information and communication networks can be used as a tool for productive purposes and for innovation. However, such networks can also be used as a weapon for destructive and defensive puproses, which has been characterized by the phrase ‘information warfare’. As yet, there has been relatively little theoretical elaboration of the sociological implications of this phenomenon beyond the …
The Nuclear Threat: When it Hurts to Think
Animals and organizations
Living Space’ at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe: Spatial tactics and the politics of smooth space
Space has become a key analytic concept for the study of organization. While much emphasis has been placed upon the role of designed spaces within the existing literature, as yet there has been little attention paid to the sociality of space and the spatial practices that people employ to enact workspaces. This inquiry provides an ethnographic study of the work of street artists at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. We investigate the spatial tactics…
Kafka’s mythology: Organization, bureaucracy and the limits of sensemaking
Franz Kafka merits special consideration among the writers of the 20th century for his portrayal of organizational life and the ambivalent character of the social institutions that ostensibly exist to help us. In this article we will draw on his works to enrich our understanding of organizations in three key respects: i) in terms of his creation of a mythology of organization; ii) by developing the concept of ‘counter-mythology’ to extend existin…
Whistle-blowing and the politics of truth: Mobilizing ‘truth games’ in the WikiLeaks case
This article investigates the role of ‘truth’ as an object of contention within organizations, with specific reference to the ‘politics of truth’ in the WikiLeaks case. For an empirical illustration of a ‘truth game’, this article draws on varied accounts of the WikiLeaks whistle-blowing website. The article shows how different ‘truth games’ are mobilized by different organizational actors engaged in a politics of truth. The article demonstrates …
Kafkaesque power and bureaucracy
The metaphor of Kafkaesque bureaucracy has attracted the imagination of organization theorists for decades. While the critical and metaphorical approach offers vibrant insights about organizing, it has not been complemented by systematic empirical analysis. We take a step in that direction and conduct an inductive study of how people experience and deal with the Kafkaesque bureaucracy. We focus on the Kafkaesque organization as constructed in pro…
Dogs in organizations
What roles do dogs play in organizational life and formal organizations? Dogs are mostly ignored by organization theory despite the existence of a rich literature on human–animal studies that helps theoretical extension in the direction of organization studies. We discuss why and to what extent dogs are important actors in the lives of organizations and discuss reasons that explain such relevance in functional and symbolic terms. Overall, we sugg…
The territorial organization: History, divergence and possibilities
This paper introduces a new field to organization studies – that of organizational territoriality – as well as introducing the papers to the special issue on The Territorial Organization. Organization seen as territory may function symbolically, offering an additional metaphor to those suggested by Morgan, or materially, taking into account existing studies of organizational space and architecture. This paper integrates perspectives from anthropo…
The Territorial Organization’: A special issue of Culture and Organization
The act of interpretation involves creating maps or representations that simplify some territory in order to facilitate action. (Weick 1993, 361) Although the activity of mapping has received susta
The Making of a Writer: A Conversation with the West Indian Writer George Lamming at the University of Texas November 29, 1970
The Making of a Writer: A Conversation with the West Indian Writer George Lamming at the University of Texas November 29, 1970
Livres reçus
The City and Its Double: Plague Time in Early Modern London
Shakespeare in Canada: A World Elsewhere
Canada's long history of Shakespeare productions and reception, including adaptations, literary reworkings, and parodies, is analysed and contextualized within the four sections of the book. A timely addition to the growing field that studies the transnational reach of Shakespeare across cultures, this collection examines the political and cultural agendas invoked not only by Shakespeare's plays, but also by his very name. In part a historical an…
The Figure of the Crowd in Early Modern London
The Figure of the Crowd in Early Modern London examines the cultural phenomenon of the urban crowd in the context of early modern London's population crisis. The book explores the crowd's double funct
Figure of the Crowd in Early Modern London: The City and Its Double
“Rome, etc.”: Sejanus, Julius Caesar, and the Prodigious City
This chapter takes as its focus the relation between dramatic space and theatrical space as it is negotiated in two plays, Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar and Jonson’s Sejanus his Fall . In a number of ways it continues the work of the previous chapter, extending the argument that with the staging of crowds plays sought to negotiate their relationship to their urban audience, the distracted multitude. In place of the fairly straightforward dynamics d…
Distracted Multitude: The Theater and The Many-Headed Monster
At the height of his alienation from the plebeians, Coriolanus expresses his popular revulsion in terms of a paradox: I would they were barbarians, as they are, Though in Rome litter’d; not Romans, as they are not, Though calved i’ th’ porch o’ th’ Capitol! (3.1.237–39) These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.
Shakespeare's Tragedies: Violation and Identity
220/ Renaissance and Reformation / Renaissance et Réforme turne ?Pourtant Ménager voit dans la préférence de ceux qu'il appelle « les amis de la nuit » une commune « résistance secrète » contre la soumission à l'ordre naturel, une « contre-culture », écrit-il même, exprimant une protestation silencieuse contre les valeurs dominantes de l'époque, laquelle aggrave « l'antique partage entre le jour et la nuit » en mettant l'accent « sur la productio…
I Don't Know What I'm Doing, How About You?': Discourse and Identity in Practitioners Dealing with the Survivors of Childhood Sexual Abuse
This research is based on interviews conducted with a voluntary group of health practitioners who care for the adult survivors of childhood sexual abuse in one area of Scotland. This project takes a broadly interpretive approach to the interviews, and examines the processes of sense-making apparent in the scripts of the doctors, community nurse and counsellors who comprise this voluntary Forum. Those interviewed were highly sceptical of tradition…
The Nuclear Threat: When it Hurts to Think
The Figure of the Crowd in Early Modern London: The City and Its Double
Ian Munro's Th e Figure of the Crowd in Early ModernLondon: Th e City and Its Double is a wide-ranging and well-argued study of the complex relations among the city, the crowd, and the theatre in early modern London."What is the city but the people?" asks the tribune Sicinus in Coriolanus.Munro asks us to take this question seriously.Th e book's introduction and fi rst chapter outline his position in broad terms.Th e rapid population increase in …
Two Novellas by YAE: A Moroccan in New York and Sea Drinkers by Youssouf Amine Elalamy, John Liechty
1 Q o H ^1 objectively the exulted new Latin American narrative. Mind reading and hagiography can become decidedly low formsof narrative, so Castellanos Moya opts forrelentless forms in all his novels, particularly in this one's dialogue. His "Author's Note" asserts that he has put history (El Salvador in 1944) at the service of his novel, "distort ing itaccording to the requirements of fiction,"and thatopens up end less possibilities. Tirana mem…
Foucault’s Care of the Self: A Case from Mental Health Work
This research concerns mental health workers who treat the victims of sexual abuse. The health workers were all part of a forum composed of doctors, counsellors and a community psychiatric nurse, who met to discuss issues of best practice in their everyday work. The research examined how these workers make sense of their work, particularly in terms of how they understand the concept of care and the kinds of knowledge that they use in their work, …
Defending the Network Organization: An Analysis of Information Warfare with Reference to Heidegger
It is now a commonplace notion in management thinking that information and communication networks can be used as a tool for productive purposes and for innovation. However, such networks can also be used as a weapon for destructive and defensive puproses, which has been characterized by the phrase ‘information warfare’. As yet, there has been relatively little theoretical elaboration of the sociological implications of this phenomenon beyond the …
The Territorial Organization’: A special issue of Culture and Organization
The act of interpretation involves creating maps or representations that simplify some territory in order to facilitate action. (Weick 1993, 361) Although the activity of mapping has received susta
Management of human capital: Discipline, security and controlled circulation in HRM
This article provides a contribution to the Foucauldian problematization of HRM. It draws particular attention to Foucault’s lectures that were devoted to re-conceptualizing power relations to accommodate transformations that have arisen from the emergence of liberal and neoliberal forms of government. Whilst Foucauldian approaches to HRM have mainly focused on the centripetal elements of disciplinary power in modern management, they have tended …
Kafka’s mythology: Organization, bureaucracy and the limits of sensemaking
Franz Kafka merits special consideration among the writers of the 20th century for his portrayal of organizational life and the ambivalent character of the social institutions that ostensibly exist to help us. In this article we will draw on his works to enrich our understanding of organizations in three key respects: i) in terms of his creation of a mythology of organization; ii) by developing the concept of ‘counter-mythology’ to extend existin…
The Acceptability and Efficacy of a Group Cognitive Behavioural Therapy Programme in a Community Mental Health Setting
The territorial organization: History, divergence and possibilities
This paper introduces a new field to organization studies – that of organizational territoriality – as well as introducing the papers to the special issue on The Territorial Organization. Organization seen as territory may function symbolically, offering an additional metaphor to those suggested by Morgan, or materially, taking into account existing studies of organizational space and architecture. This paper integrates perspectives from anthropo…
Living Space’ at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe: Spatial tactics and the politics of smooth space
Space has become a key analytic concept for the study of organization. While much emphasis has been placed upon the role of designed spaces within the existing literature, as yet there has been little attention paid to the sociality of space and the spatial practices that people employ to enact workspaces. This inquiry provides an ethnographic study of the work of street artists at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. We investigate the spatial tactics…
Organizational resistance as a vector of deterritorialization: The case of WikiLeaks and secrecy havens
This article investigates the relations of power and resistance manifest by the WikiLeaks network. The primary research question of this inquiry is, ‘what power relations and possibilities for resistance are presented by WikiLeaks as a novel form of network organization?’ The article shows that WikiLeaks has been able to exert influence from the periphery of existing networks by exploiting vectors of ‘deterritorialization’ to destabilize existing…
Kafkaesque power and bureaucracy
The metaphor of Kafkaesque bureaucracy has attracted the imagination of organization theorists for decades. While the critical and metaphorical approach offers vibrant insights about organizing, it has not been complemented by systematic empirical analysis. We take a step in that direction and conduct an inductive study of how people experience and deal with the Kafkaesque bureaucracy. We focus on the Kafkaesque organization as constructed in pro…
Animals and organizations
Whistle-blowing and the politics of truth: Mobilizing ‘truth games’ in the WikiLeaks case
This article investigates the role of ‘truth’ as an object of contention within organizations, with specific reference to the ‘politics of truth’ in the WikiLeaks case. For an empirical illustration of a ‘truth game’, this article draws on varied accounts of the WikiLeaks whistle-blowing website. The article shows how different ‘truth games’ are mobilized by different organizational actors engaged in a politics of truth. The article demonstrates …
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