The editors seek to publish books in a variety of formats, and their lengths of books will vary according the requirements of the particular project. Innovative interventions and presentations of texts are encouraged, and the inclusion of images can also be considered, in the context of production costs. Book proposals should outline the rationale and aims of the book, and show how the proposed book challenges - theoretically and politically - the perceived wisdom of organizational practice or theory. Book proposals should normally not be longer than 5-8 pages and should include a preliminary table of contents and a projected schedule including submission date of the full manuscript. All contributions will be published in English and should not have been published, or submitted for publication, in another forum. Translations of work published in languages other than English will be considered. Book proposals and manuscripts should be submitted as Word or RTF file. All submissions should be fully referenced and may contain footnotes or endnotes. Every submission should be accompanied by a Curriculum Vitae and a biographical note not longer than 200 words, in any style. Please also provide both an email and postal address. The Editors of mayflybooks will consider all proposals or manuscripts and promising proposals will be reviewed by suitably qualified reviewers. Authors will be kept up to date on the status of their submission via regular email correspondence.
All submissions should be sent to mayflybooks@essex.ac.uk
Specifically, mayflybooks seeks submissions that address the following areas (although this is not an exclusive list):
- Feminist interrogations of the organization of organization and society;
- Anti-racist, postcolonial and subaltern studies of organization;
- Engagements with critical theory, poststructuralism and other philosophical movements and the evaluation of their political significance for the study of organization;
- The relationship between art, aesthetics and cultural organization;
- Critical accounts of consumption and overconsumption;
- Collective action and political protest, politics of social movements, organizations of resistance;
- Development and the marginalisation of the global South;
- Conceptualisations and empirical investigations of subjectivity;
- Contemporary theories and politics of work and labour;
- Critiques of contemporary discourses of critique, particularly in critical management studies;
- Ontological, epistemological and methodological perspectives of the study of organization;
- Critiques of contemporary capitalism, ideology and Empire;
- Interrogations of the organization of technology, data, information and knowledge;
- Work on organization, history, time and change;
- Spatial organization and architecture;
- Analyses of the relations between war and organization;
- The organization of cooperative, alternative and anti-capitalist communities;
- Utopias of organizational life;
- Poetics and literatures of organization
