Out in the Field with Bruno Latour

QROM are pleased to present the special issue “Out in the Field with Bruno Latour”, in honour of Latour’s life’s work, a project initiated by Albert Mills and Barbara Czarniawska in 2022. Barbara sadly passed away before this project could be completed, and so this special issue is also a tribute to her and her work with Bruno Latour, who she introduced to the field of organization studies. We thank the hard work and dedication of our Guest Editors, Hervé Corvellec and Franck Cochoy, for completing this project.

All papers for this issue can be found below, and will be free to access until 7th December 2024:

Guest editorial: Out in the field with Bruno Latour by Barbara Czarniawska, Hervé Corvellec and Franck Cochoy

Method as democratizing; through researcher positionality and empirical inclusivity by Maira Babri

With Latour in our hands: discovering the politics of organizing and the aesthetic matter of things by Elena Raviola and Marta Gasparin

How a project design becomes a macro-actor: laboratory simulations in trials of strength between competing bridge designs, project budgets and sustainability by Peter Skærbæk, Tim Neerup Themsen and Kjell Tryggestad

Traces of anti-programs against COVID-19: retailers' responses aimed at mitigating the spread of the virus by Gabriella Wulff

Understanding careers as translations: the importance of Bruno Latour for the study of careers by Hannelore Ottilie Van den Abeele

Watching Oppenheimer through Latour’s lens [1] by Andrzej Wojciech Nowak

In addition to the papers above, the editors would like to feature the following “In memoriam: Barbara Czarniawska by Hugo Gaggiotti and Peter Case” which dovetails with the present homage to Bruno Latour that Barbara Czarniawska initiated.