Luke Howie

The Role of Shared Resilience in Building Employment Pathways with People with a Disability

Disabilities, Jan 30, 2024

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Nevermind: Subjective and Objective Violence in Vinci

Melbourne as a terrorist target and the human response

Working in the Theatre of Terrorism

Vampires, Lawyers, Merchant Bankers and Other Monsters: Post-9/11 Organisations in Science Fiction

Palgrave Macmillan UK eBooks, 2012

If it seems as though I am checking in late with my exploration of organisations and science fict... more If it seems as though I am checking in late with my exploration of organisations and science fiction it is because I am. I was 19 years old and an undergraduate business student when the special issue of the critical management studies journal Organization edited by Martin Parker and colleagues was unveiled. ‘Amazing Tales’ is a collection of papers in which critical management scholars encouraged encounters between organisation studies and science fiction pop cultures (Parker et al., 1999: 579). Despite my fashionable lateness I believe that I can make a meaningful contribution to this collection and build on the amazing tales that were left for me to discover a decade later. My contribution does not seek to challenge or undermine any of the special issue authors — when their organisational science fiction utopias/dystopias/monsters were created they were powerful tropes for pre-millennial ‘management science’. In 2011 these papers have inspired me to also combine my love of pop culture with my interests in some other scholarly fields. I live in a world unlike that of 1999. Those that believed that the millennium would be a significant coming of age were, in a way, right. Dystopia arrived on 11 September 2001 and has lingered. Whether it will linger as long as other dystopic realities, like the corporate inhumanity that delivered us to the Global Financial Crisis (GFC), is not for me to say. But As Žižek (2009b: 1) writes, ‘We should note the similarity of President Bush’s language in his addresses to the American people after 9/11 and after the financial collapse: they sounded very much like two versions of the same speech’ (my emphasis).

Working in a Time of Terror

Witnesses to Terror

Palgrave Macmillan UK eBooks, 2012

Terrorism and the human consequence at work

267 Terrorism and the Human Consequence at Work Luke Howie Monash University Perceptions of the t... more

Terrorism, the Worker and the City: Simulations and Security in a Time of Terror

Terror and the Mediated City

Witnesses to Terror: Understanding the Meanings and Consequences of Terrorism

Preface Uncertainty in the Study of Terrorism The Witness of Terrorism Like a Weapon in the Stree... more Preface Uncertainty in the Study of Terrorism The Witness of Terrorism Like a Weapon in the Street: Terrorism and the Media in the 21st Century Witnessing Terrorism and its Enduring Consequences Elder Witnesses: Witnessing Terrorism in Later/Middle Life Vampires, Lawyers, Merchant Bankers: Post-9/11 Organizations in Science Fiction Guarding the Contact Zones: Security Guards in a Time of Terror Witnessing Terrorism Notes Bibliography Index

Terror-work

Performing Dispossession: Young People and the Politics of the Guerrilla Self

Young People and the Politics of Outrage and Hope, 2018

Anxiety, Violence and the Social World

Crisis and Terror in the Age of Anxiety, 2017

Anxiety, Violence and the Social World Anxiety, or perhaps more precisely anxious people, seems t... more Anxiety, Violence and the Social World Anxiety, or perhaps more precisely anxious people, seems to be everywhere. The Anxiety and Depression Association of America (ADAA) believes that around 18% of people in the US are afflicted by full-blown anxiety disorders. Prior to the new millennium, anxiety disorders cost around $42 billion US dollars per year (ADAA 2015; Greenberg et al. 1999). Awareness and acceptance of anxiety is growing as celebrities admit to long battles with anxious illnesses. For instance, Emma Stone and Taylor Swift have discussed feelings of anxiety and having panic attacks. The Hunger Games star, Jennifer Lawrence, has described how she has long had 'a kind of social anxiety' (Wickens 2016). Recently, writers from various fields have weighed in on the meanings and consequences of anxiety in the contemporaryin what we would argue is a post-9/11, post-GFCworld. There has been a stream of revelations of public figures whom have had long battles with personal terrors and anxieties. Scott Stosselwell known American journalist and editor of The Atlanticreleased his book describing his Age of Anxiety (2014) featuring harrowing tales of barely getting by (or not) whilst in the throes of all-consuming terror. His story includes a history of anxiety, principally from psychopharmacological and cognitive behavioural therapeutic (CBT)

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Working in a Time of Terror

Terrorism, the Worker and the City, 2017

Iraqi Women’s Stories of Anxiety and Unrest from the Blogosphere

Crisis and Terror in the Age of Anxiety, 2017

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Like a Weapon in the Street: Terrorism and the Media in the Twenty-First Century

Witnesses to Terror, 2012

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An Age of Celebrity Terrorism

Vampires, Lawyers, Merchant Bankers and Other Monsters: Post-9/11 Organisations in Science Fiction

Witnesses to Terror, 2012

If it seems as though I am checking in late with my exploration of organisations and science fict... more If it seems as though I am checking in late with my exploration of organisations and science fiction it is because I am. I was 19 years old and an undergraduate business student when the special issue of the critical management studies journal Organization edited by Martin Parker and colleagues was unveiled. ‘Amazing Tales’ is a collection of papers in which critical management scholars encouraged encounters between organisation studies and science fiction pop cultures (Parker et al., 1999: 579). Despite my fashionable lateness I believe that I can make a meaningful contribution to this collection and build on the amazing tales that were left for me to discover a decade later. My contribution does not seek to challenge or undermine any of the special issue authors — when their organisational science fiction utopias/dystopias/monsters were created they were powerful tropes for pre-millennial ‘management science’. In 2011 these papers have inspired me to also combine my love of pop culture with my interests in some other scholarly fields. I live in a world unlike that of 1999. Those that believed that the millennium would be a significant coming of age were, in a way, right. Dystopia arrived on 11 September 2001 and has lingered. Whether it will linger as long as other dystopic realities, like the corporate inhumanity that delivered us to the Global Financial Crisis (GFC), is not for me to say. But As Žižek (2009b: 1) writes, ‘We should note the similarity of President Bush’s language in his addresses to the American people after 9/11 and after the financial collapse: they sounded very much like two versions of the same speech’ (my emphasis).

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