ABSTRACT
An important part of an ethics of sustainability in management is finding new concepts and reframing old ones to map, understand, and question managing from a new terrestrial reality of vital materialism. This chapter suggests using concepts like place, space, and materiality to inform managing. Storymaking is seen as a temporal, spatial, and material practice that helps stabilize the world, thereby making it manageable. Inherent in storymaking is the politics concerning the creation of living spaces among humans as well as among humans and all other terrestrial living. It is argued that organizations are parts of making history in companionship with other agencies. Deleuze and Guattari’s notion of the refrain is used to conceptualize managing into a rhythmic practice that involves three different but simultaneous processes: emplacement, making homes, and creating experimental spaces. Such practices are important for building new, sustainable trajectories, stabilizing them, and developing them. Managing for sustainability is to build multispecies worlds.
