PhD defence: Maximilian Schellmann

This is a study of refugee camps as spaces of organizing, and of the politics being enacted and produced through such. Hitherto placed at the margins of organization studies, as well as literally being placed at the margins of organizational, life, the study places refugee camps centre stage. It does so through an ethnographic investigation of two refugee camps physically based in Africa, yet organized from way beyond its immediate borders. The study argues that whilst refugee camps are highly organized places, which seek to render homogeneity and to distinguish between what is ‘inside’ and ‘outside’, they also constantly produce inherent ruptures and paradoxes, which in turn produce the possibilities of an emancipatory politics for camp inhabitants, beyond and through their inscription as refugees.
 
Primary Supervisor:
Professor Robin Holt
Department of Management, Politics and Philosophy
Copenhagen Business School
 
Secondary Supervisor:
Professor Dr. Timon Beyes
Leuphana Universität Lüneburg
Copenhagen Business School
 
Assessment Committee:
Professor Mitchell Dean (Chair)
Department of Management, Politics and Philosophy
Copenhagen Business School
 
Professor Kate Kenny
Management
Queen's University Belfast
 
Professor, Dr. Harald Welzer
Institute for advanced studies in the humanities
University Allience Ruhr
 
Thesis:
The thesis will be available from http://openarchive.cbs.dk

Reception:
The Doctoral School of Organisation and Management Studies will host a reception, which will take place immediately after the defence in the area outside the defence room.

Date: 20 November 2018
Time: 13 – 15
Location: Copenhagen Business School, Porcelænshaven 20, PHRs20, 2000 Frederiksberg