1st Edition

Communicative Property Redefining Capitalism at an Interdisciplinary Crossroads

By Nicolas Bencherki Copyright 2027
180 Pages
by Routledge

Communicative Property explores the concept of property from a communicative, rather than economic and legal, perspective.   As a point of departure, the book engages with both organizational studies and social theory to point out that economic and legal views of property have dominated conversations over the notion since Marx. The author argues that the role of property in shaping... Read more

1. Reintroducing Property, the Overlooked Concept; 2. Self-ownership and Labour at the Source Property; 3. Private Property as a Pinnacle; 4. A Processual and Communicative View of Property; 5. How Communicative Property is Accomplished; 6. Property, (im)materiality, and technology; 7. What Communicative Property Does; 8. Conclusion: Towards “Possessive” Studies of Organizing and Working?

Biography

Nicolas Bencherki is a professor of organizational communication at Université TÉLUQ, Canada. He is also an affiliate faculty member at Université du Québec à Montréal and at Audencia Business School, France. He studies the interactional performance of organizational phenomena such as authority, strategy, and ownership, with a particular focus on nonprofit and community organizations. He holds a joint PhD in communication from Université de Montréal and in sociology of action from Sciences Po Paris.