Martin Parker

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The Organization of Things: A Cabinet of Curiosities This is a book about knowledge and how it is organized. The business school has captured ideas about organization, and reduced them to questions of formal structures, documented processes, logistics ...

This is what Carl Rhodes said about my book.

“Books about organizations too often offer hackneyed statements of the obvious, riddled with ideologically saturated saccharine meanderings of marginal importance."

He then says my book doesn't do that, so buy it.

www.routledge.com/The-Organiza...

Space is a key feature of social life. But does the digitalisation of society affect its spatial dimensions, and if so, how? Listen to our latest podcast with Leverhulme Visiting Professor Theodore Schatzki and Dale Southerton

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#sociodigitalfutures @leverhulme.ac.uk

TODAY Green Party VOTE MARY PAGE FOR WEST OF ENGLAND MAYOR Promoted by Jenny Vernon on behalf of Mary Page (Green Party) all at 17 Great George Street, Bristol BS1 5@T.

TODAY WE CAN ELECT A GREEN MAYOR

Polling stations are now OPEN.
You can get out and vote Mary Page to be the first Green, West Of England Mayor.

Remember to bring ID.
💪Let’s do this!💪

Imagining co-operatives? | UK Society for Co-operative Studies 2026 Special Issue: Co-operatives and co-operative economy in art and culture

Coop people! (And those who are alternative economy adjacent.) Last chance to submit an abstract for our special issue on coops in fiction, art and culture. Just an abstract to start off with, but do let us have a look at your ideas. See below.

www.ukscs.coop/pages/imagin...

TOMORROW IS YOUR CHANCE

🟩 Vote Mary Page to be the first ever GREEN MAYOR for the West Of England. 🟩

It’s gonna be a tight one, but with YOUR HELP we can do this!

Credit: John Darvall, BBC

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It is terribly good.

A movement of movements for Bristol? at PRSC Bristol is a city full of energy and vibrant alternative initiatives, but they don’t always connect well together. The idea of a ‘movement of movements’ suggests that organizing might to scale out and...

A movement of movements for Bristol event on 17th April 2025. Can we co-ordinate our activities so that the many local and particular forms of activism can become a rising tide of change which is impossible to ignore? Tickets below.

www.headfirstbristol.co.uk/whats-on/prs...

In this episode of our #TransformingBusinessPodcast series with Martin Parker, Carl Rhodes, author of 'Stinking Rich', explains the dangerous and deceptive myths which portray #Billionaires as a ‘force for good’.

@profcarlrhodes.bsky.social @profmartinp.bsky.social

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PODCAST: The myth of the heroic billionaire - Transforming Society In this episode of our Transforming Business podcast series with Martin Parker, Carl Rhodes explains the dangerous and deceptive myths which portray billionaires as a ‘force for good’.

In this episode of our #TransformingBusinessPodcast series with Martin Parker, Carl Rhodes, author of 'Stinking Rich', explains the dangerous and deceptive myths which portray #Billionaires as a ‘force for good’.

@profcarlrhodes.bsky.social @profmartinp.bsky.social

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PODCAST: Changemaking and radical hope in times of crisis - Transforming Society Everybody wants to change the world, but can we actually make a difference? In the first episode of our Transforming Business podcast series with Martin Parker, Jane Holgate and John Page, authors of…

In the first episode of our #TransformingBusinessPodcast series with Martin Parker, Jane Holgate and John Page, authors of 'Changemakers', discuss the power of #Activism and challenge the belief that change is impossible

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Why do business schools ignore coops? A paper that was rejected from AMLE, JMS and BJM, but taken up by the excellent Management Learning.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

insightful and inspiring blog by @profmartinp.bsky.social - never give up

PODCAST: The myth of the heroic billionaire - Transforming Society In this episode of our Transforming Business podcast series with Martin Parker, Carl Rhodes explains the dangerous and deceptive myths which portray billionaires as a ‘force for good’.

@profcarlrhodes.bsky.social explains the dangerous and deceptive myths which portray #Billionaires as a ‘force for good’ in this episode of our Transforming Business podcast series with @profmartinp.bsky.social: buff.ly/Ntre0kK

Why didn’t we build back better? - Transforming Society Martin Parker, editor of 'Life After COVID-19', hoped the pandemic might spark lasting change, but entrenched power and economic interests drove a return to business as usual, revealing that real…

@profmartinp.bsky.social hoped the #Pandemic might spark lasting change, but entrenched power and economic interests drove a return to business as usual, revealing that real progress demands active, sustained effort: buff.ly/YUnwDJg

PODCAST: Changemaking and radical hope in times of crisis - Transforming Society Everybody wants to change the world, but can we actually make a difference? In the first episode of our Transforming Business podcast series with Martin Parker, Jane Holgate and John Page, authors of…

In the first episode of our Transforming Business podcast series with @profmartinp.bsky.social, Jane Holgate and John Page discuss the power of #Activism and challenge the belief that change is impossible: buff.ly/2OTUVxn

A fascinating conversation about social change and activism. Do have a listen.

Eggings, swastikas and dog poop: Tesla bears brunt of people’s ire against Musk In response to the billionaire’s scorched-earth raids on US government agencies, Tesla chargers and showrooms are being targeted

Please repost - I'm not sure how much coverage this is getting in the US media
#TeslaTakedown
#Swasticars

www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

We don’t need Elon Musk for an innovative tech industry Our ‘Tony Stark’ image of tech moguls is obscuring the talent and toil of ordinary workers, and inflating the egos of the bosses.

In 2018, I wrote a piece that annoyed Musk fanboys. I'd like to carry on annoying them.

theconversation.com/we-dont-need...

The job market is tough for new graduates — even if you dropped $200,000 on an elite MBA Top MBAs are struggling to land jobs; some are trying their hand at entrepreneurship instead....

@profmartinp.bsky.social Here's one for you and all other excellent critics of the crap taught in #BusinessSchools
sherwood.news/business/job...

One Thousand Photos - One Thousand Shares! I just took pledge to take part in the One Thousand Photos - One Thousand Shares! Join me in taking action! Garment workers from Indonesia, Cambodia, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, India, and Pakistan have o...

Please support garment workers in their struggle with Nike by pledging to share 1,000 of their photos
actionnetwork.org/forms/one-th...

People Just Do Something: Bristol Apartheid Free Zone Matt and Sasha of Bristol Apartheid Free Zone, a boycott on Israeli goods, offer a hands-on lesson in pushing for change in your community.

📻 Latest podcast episode: People Just Do Something, with Bristol Apartheid Free Zone’s Matt and Sasha on building a boycott for Palestine

Check it out here or wherever you get your podcasts:

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Much better. I think I might quote you on that.

A tunnel to the other side of the world: what sort of writing can contribute to social change? Journal articles are not widely read, so can academics cultivate their skills in genres which are more popular and persuasive? Can we ‘write differently’? This paper presents an account of a childr...

A tunnel to the other side of the world: what sort of writing can contribute to social change?: Culture and Organization: Vol 0, No 0 - Get Access www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Apparently Elon Musk gets cross if you call Teslas 'Swasticars'. Just thought everyone should know that.

Good try, but now add ideology and give me a second answer.