Special Issue CfP — The (Re)turn to Marx: New Readings of Marx and the Future of Organization

Amidst the many crises of the 21st century, there has been a multi-stranded return to Marx across the critical social sciences and humanities, stretching Marxian concepts and methods to examine the changing, contradictory, and uneven nature of capitalist organization. This includes engagement with previously unknown or neglected texts and themes in Marx’s oeuvre, that address questions of ecology, colonialism, gender, and more. Despite these developments, and despite the influence that Marx has had on the study of organization, direct and sustained engagement with Marxian theory remains limited within organization studies. This special issue therefore seeks to open a forum for engagement with new readings and uses of Marx, to think and struggle in the open and unknown terrain of history. We invite conceptual, methodological, and empirical contributions that critically engage with Marx, from a plurality of disciplines, traditions, geographies, and positionalities, to interrogate capitalist organization in the conjuncture and explore possibilities for organizing alternatives in and beyond capitalism.