The journal Organization has released a call for papers on new readings of Marx and the future of organization. As this topic is quite broad, it is seeking papers that cover this topic on the basis of multiple themes, including post-capitalism and democratic economic planning. The deadline to submit a paper is Thursday 1st April 2027.
A summary of the call for papers (from the website) can be found below:
Marx in the Conjuncture
In The Search for Method (1960), Jean-Paul Sartre writes that Marxism remains “the philosophy of our time”, a horizon we cannot go beyond if only “because we have not gone beyond the circumstances which engendered it” (see also Fleming, 2022: 3-4, 14-15n1). And yet, this horizon remains an ‘open terrain’ (Hall, 2022), precisely because of the major historical changes that capitalist ‘social formations’ have undergone over the longue durée. Today, we find ourselves in a radically different conjuncture than that of Marx and the variety of Marxisms developed in the 20th century. This is a conjuncture marked by the overlapping and compounding effects of climatic and biodiversity crises, societal stratification and precarity, resurgent neo-fascisms amidst (neo-)liberal disorientation, and the escalation of geo-political antagonisms into war and genocide (Srinivas et al., 2025). Capitalism, moreover, appears to be exhausting (Moore, 2015) and cannibalizing (Fraser, 2022) its conditions of possibility, just as some authors are beginning to ask if we have not already moved beyond capitalism, into a neo-feudal or neo-tributaryi mode of organization and accumulation (Dean, 2025; Durand, 2024; Wark, 2019). This special issue thus explicitly seeks contributions that engage with new readings and uses of Marxii, to think and struggle in, to borrow from Stuart Hall (2022), the open and unknown terrain of history. We therefore welcome contributions that operate in this open space, drawing on inter alia ecological, feminist, queer, anti-colonial, anti-racist, and Indigenous thought, to critically interrogate, develop, and push the Marxian study and practice of organization in new directions….
To this end, we welcome methodological, conceptual, and/or empirical research engaging with but not limited to one or more of the following themes:
- Alienation, fetishism, and reification in contemporary work and
- Organizing and Marxian perspectives on ethics and
- Openings in ‘Late’ Marx: Decolonialization and Non-Linear
- The role of war, imperialism, and colonialism in organizing capital
- Fascism and capitalism: Critical theories of fascist and far-right
- Racial capitalist organization and the Black Radical
- (Re)connecting Indigenous and Marxian theory and praxis in organization
- Feminist and queer Marxist approaches to organizing/organization
- Marxian political ecology, and associated approaches to more-than-human
- Affect, desire, and the libidinal economy of capitalist organization in the context of war, fascism, and climate catastrophe.
- Struggles against and alternatives to financialization, from a Marxian
- Digital capitalist infrastructures, including platforms and artificial
- Peasant and (trans)agrarian Marxist
- Land questions and the emerging geographical political economy of
- Non-capitalist resistance and organization within and against
- Communist philosophies and practices of
- Marxian methodologies for studying work and organization, exploring approaches associated with workers’ inquiry, ethnographic research (e.g. Burawoy’s extended case method), fundamental questions of dialectical methodology, and more.
Authors’ enquiries:
If you have any inquiries about the special issue and whether your work would fit, please contact the guest editors: Yousaf Nishat-Botero (y.nishat-botero@bham.ac.uk), Simon Barber (simon.barber@otago.ac.nz), Olimpia Burchiellaro (olimpia.burchiellaro@essex.ac.uk), Elisavet (e.mantzari@bham.ac.uk), and David Watson (djwats@essex.ac.uk).
Paper development workshop for interested authors:
A paper development workshop for interested authors will be held in November 2026. Please submit your abstract (max. 1000 words outlining focus, contribution, methods [if appropriate], and fit to the special issue) to returntomarxSI@gmail.com by July 30th 2026. The format of this workshop will be finalized closer to the time it is held. We will accommodate online or in person presentations and discussion. Participation in the workshop is not a necessary condition for authors to submit a full paper to the SI.
Submitting your paper
Papers may be submitted electronically from 1 March 2027 until the deadline date of 1 April 2027 to SAGETrack at http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/organization, indicating the special issue in the system. Papers should be no more than 11,000 words, excluding references, and will be blindly reviewed following the journal’s standard review process. Manuscripts should be prepared according to the guidelines published in Organization and on the journal’s website: https://uk.sagepub.com/en-gb/eur/manuscript-submission-guidelines.
You can find out more about the call for papers here.