Christopher added themselves to the department Work, Organization, and Society and added a position.
Christopher started following the work of Andreas Wittel, Nottingham Trent University, School of Arts and Humanities.
Christopher started following the work of 4 people.
Christopher is running a Handlungskompetenz seminar on ethical branding this week: A slab of semiotic advertising analysis, boiled up in a cultural theory stock pot, with a sprinkling of autonomist brand analys... more
Faculty Member, Work, Organization, and Society
Senior Lecturer in Work and Organization
About
Chris Land lectures and researches in management at the University of Essex. His main teaching areas are:
- Management and organization theory
- New technology and innovation
His research crosses a number of disciplinary boundaries, borrowing from anywhere that helps him to understand how and why we organize as we do. He is particularly interested in:
- Alternative forms of organization, including workers' cooperatives, anarchist organizations, social movement organizations and communes.
- Community as an organizational discourse
- Cultural representations of work and organization, especially in film and in novels.
He has published on the work of Deleuze and Guatarri in organization studies, the relevance of William S. Burroughs' novels for understanding socio-technical change, the social organization of piracy in the early 18th century, the socialization of graduate recruits in management consultancy firms, the implications of lifestyle branding strategies for the work-life balance, and governmental discourses of value in the arts.
His current research is focussed on the relationship between politics and aesthetics in the work of professional artists. He is also writing a textbook on management, innovation, and new technology with Dr Martin Harris of Essex Business School.
