the global south bishops' document and the 'Attentive, Intelligent, Rational, and Responsible' text

[Hugh Williams]

On Canada Day I sent this link out

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1TBoG7aoqzkvqeCZ56BED-y86YepHktIF/view

for the very recent document by the catholic bishops of the global south.

It is in contrast to the relative silence (or inhibitedness) in the global north especially in my own nation

and among the national catholic churches.

I reiterate this, again, because of the deep parallels and resonances with John and Pierre's book AIRR (2023).

In some respects if read together you have a sort of handbook for implementation of the southern bishop's

pointed document insisting on sovereignty projects for food, energy, and culture, and for

sobriety and limits on the accumulation of wealth, the financialization of the economy, 

and on military investment. ... and for the pursuit of alternatives to the 'capitalist model' of development.

But this time in the interests of acting consequentially there also is this striking call to 'identify those responsible

for the destruction and the false solutions they promote'.

This seems to me to warrant a severely critical stance on increasing such things, as in my own nation, as military spending for the sake of militarized 

conflict, ... rather expenditures should be preparing a 'disciplined force' for dealing with climate disasters in line with 

the ecological conversion called for in each one of these very recent texts. This conversion that the bishops of the global south also call for 

and out of which they seem now ready to speak prophetically demands this sort of shift ....

... this now seems obvious to me; how about you ... ?

Hugh 

 

[Charles Tackney]

Summer greetings!

Back from the BC Workshop, which was way out in the woods this year and not on-campus, and now preparing for the Academy of Management (AOM) conference, which will be held quite literally up the street, a bike/bus/metro ride away. 

Here's the AOM website:

https://aom.org

And below is the post from the Management History Division inviting conference attendees to our "Employment with Justice" professional development workshop (called a PDW). They're expecting >10,000 to attend the conference, which runs from this coming Thursday to Tuesday late afternoon. Insight-based critical realism is the little "methods" engine that could and can in the offering. 

Happy summer,

Charlie 

The Management History Division - Academy of Management invites you to an urgent and globally-minded PDW – 15854: 𝐄𝐦𝐩𝐥𝐨𝐲𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐉𝐮𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐞: 𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐠𝐲 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐖𝐨𝐫𝐤𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐀𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐞𝐝 𝐏𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐩𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐬 𝐈𝐧𝐪𝐮𝐢𝐫𝐲 (Friday, July 25 from 14:00 – 15:30 CEST at Bella Center, Room MR173).

In a post-2024 world marked by shifting employment landscapes and contested political terrain, this PDW asks: What does employment with justice truly look like across nations, systems, and human values?

Bringing together scholars from the U.S. and Japan, this PDW explores the deep contrasts between “employment at will” in the U.S. and Japan’s “lifetime employment” norms, as a window into broader historical, legal, and ethical questions facing work and society today.

This PDW explores:
1️⃣ Comparative legal systems (U.S. “employment-at-will” vs. Japan’s “lifetime employment”)
2️⃣ Theology of the workplace – connecting values and meaning to labor policy
3️⃣ Authentic professionalism – what integrity looks like in action
4️⃣ Critical management – exposing structural injustice and charting reform
5️⃣ Engaged scholarship – advancing activism through research

Panelists will be Charles Thomas Tackney (Copenhagen Business School), Susan Fairchild, David Jacobs (American University), Richard Marens (California State University-Sacramento), and Toyoko Sato (Copenhagen Business School).

This PDW offers a unique opportunity for researchers, educators, and activists to engage in foundational dialogue that connects ethics, theology, and comparative employment law — and chart a course for scholarship in service of human dignity and justice in the workplace.

🤝 𝐃𝐢𝐯𝐢𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐭: Management History Division - Academy of Management, MSR-AOM - Management Spirituality and Religion Division, CMS AOM Division, and SIM Division, AOM

🔗 𝐒𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐝𝐞𝐭𝐚𝐢𝐥𝐬 𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞: https://cdmcd.co/D8EXJP

[Doug Mounce]

Charles, great to "see" you at the conference, and congratulations on your work.  I think the organizers did a much better job for the online participants.  Was there any presentation that particularly impressed you?  And did you find that Lonergan's economics is a ongoing concern among young (and older!) scholars?  

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https://staff.washington.edu/mounce/

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