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Special Issue of ephemera on "Giving notice to employability"For its special issue, the journal ephemera - theory &#38; politics in organization (www.ephemeraweb.org) invites conceptual and empirical papers which critically discuss today's increasing concern with employability. Employability continues to hold largely positive connotations. It is widely considered to be the key for success in the labour market. It is seen as something that individuals inevitably strive for and manage throughout their (working) lives. However, this attractive picture of employability does not say much about how the concern for employability is entangled with broader societal changes or the ways in which individual subjectivities are affected by the concept of employability. The editors of this special issue are therefore looking for papers that critically assess the social, political, economic, cultural, and managerial undertakings and understanding of employability.Possible topics (22 listed) include the following: notions of employability for high-/low-skilled workers - transferable skills - teaching employability - employability and social entrepreneurship.Deadline for submissions: 30 June 2012.All contributions should be submitted to one of the issue editors: Ekaterina Chertkovskaya (E.Chertkovskaya@lboro.ac.uk), Peter Watt (p.watt1@lancaster.ac.uk), Stefan Tramer (stefan.tramer@fek.lu.se), or Sverre Spoelstra (sverre.spoelstra@fek.lu.se).The complete call can be downloaded from: http://www.ephemeraweb.org/journal/givingnoticetoemployability.pdfSource : L&#38;W Newsletter