Professor Ismael Al-Amoudi

Other Projects and Partnership 2011-13, Other Projects and Partnership 2014-16

Centre for Social Ontology – EPFL

With Professor Margaret Archer & Dr Kate Forbes-Pitt

The project’s main theoretical aim was to conceptualise a nascent but unique transformation of the social order towards ‘Morphogenesis Unbound’.

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Centre for Social Ontology – University of Warwick

With Professor Margaret Archer

The Centre for Social Ontology (CSO) was established in 2011 at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), where Professor Margaret Archer was ISRF Chair in Social Theory 2011-2013. Following a move to the Department of Sociology at the University of Warwick, its main focus was the Morphogenetic Project.

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Areas of interest

Social Ontology Business Management Ethics Sociology Virtual Reality Corporate Violence Post-Human Technologies Relationality Critical Realism

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Biography

Ismael Al-Amoudi has been the Director of the Centre of Social Ontology since 2018. He is also a Full Professor of management, ethics and sociology at Grenoble Ecole de Management (France, EU) and an Honorary Senior Research Fellow at Cardiff University Business School (Wales, UK). Prof. Al-Amoudi is also an Associate Editor for the journal Organization, an Editorial Review Board member of Organization Studies, and a member of the Independent Social Research Foundation’s Academic Advisory Board.

In addition to the nature of virtual reality, Prof. Al-Amoudi is currently conducting projects on corporate violence, post-human technologies and the moral and political significance of relationality. His research is grounded in the inter-disciplinary tradition of philosophical sociology. Although his thinking is mostly indebted to critical realism, he also draws selectively from other approaches incl. post-structuralism (Foucault), sociology of conventions (Boltanski & Thévenot), actor network theory (Latour) and feminist theorizing (esp. Judith Butler).

Biographical details correct as of 18.09.24