140 research outputs found
Whither Critical Management and Organization Studies? For a Performative Critique of Capitalist Flows in the Wake of the COVID‐19 Pandemic
No full textZanoni, P (corresponding author), Hasselt Univ, Hasselt, Belgium.
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Post-Diversity, Precarious Work for All: Unmaking borders to govern labour in the Amazon warehouse
No full textThis paper investigates the (un)making of borders as a form of labour governmentality in one of Amazon's warehouses in Poland. Guided by a critical theory of borders as a form of labour governmentality under global capitalism, we identify organizational practices through which socio-demographic categories traditionally deployed as principles of organizing work (e.g., gender, age, ability) are unmade: the management of deskilled labour through an algorithmic system, the non-selective hiring of workers, the enforcement of social norms of interpersonal respect and a universal system of casualized employment. Together, these practices constitute workers as undifferentiated, interchangeable and equal labour, let them compete with each other under harshly exploitative conditions, and continuously dispose of the least productive among them, keeping all in structural uncertainty. The study contributes to the critical diversity literature by showing a 'post-diversity' governmentality that rests on equality, competition and precarization of labour as a whole, rather than segregation and marginalization through an 'ideal worker' norm. This labour governmentality operates by eliciting consent from historically subordinated workers and eliminating the advantage of historically relatively privileged ones. Unmaking borders within labour inside the organization, this governmentality at the same time crucially rests on borders outside it.The author(s) disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: We would like to acknowledge the funding Patrizia Zanoni received from the Flemish
Research Fund (FWO), grant no. G085119N and Miłosz Miszczyński from the National Science Centre, Poland, grant no. 2019/35/B/HS4/04136.
We would like to thank our respondents, the guest editors of the special issue, the anonymous reviewers, the members of the Chair Organization Studies of the Utrecht School of Governance, the members of SEIN - Identity, Diversity & Inequality Research at Hasselt University, the participants in EGOS Sub-theme ‘Diversity and intersectionality: Struggles for recognition and redistribution in organizations and (self-)entrepreneurship’ in 2021 in Amsterdam (online) and the EGOS sub-theme ‘Re-organizing imperfections at work: negotiating power and control in employment relations’ in 2022 in Vienna for their generous feedback on previous versions of the paper. Last but not least, we thank ERA-NET CHANSE for allowing us to further build on this line of research through the Humans in Digital Logistics (HuLog) project, grant no. 101004509 (2022-2025)
Remeiros do Médio São Francisco
No full textReview of the text "Navegantes da integração; os remeiros do rio São Francisco" (1998), by Zanoni Neves.Review of the text "Navegantes da integração; os remeiros do rio São Francisco" (1998), by Zanoni Neves.Resenha do texto "Navegantes da integração; os remeiros do rio São Francisco" (1998), do autor Zanoni Neves
«Due fontane che di diverso effetto hanno liquore»: l’intertestualità in traduzione. Il caso ‘Zanoni’ di E. G. Bulwer-Lytton (1842)
No full textThis article deals with the all-but-forgotten literary reception of a Victorian author, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, who became famous in the nineteenth century in Italy thanks to the translations by Francesco Cusani, a famous historian of that period. Then, the author will be compared to the translator, according to the most recent studies in translational stylistics and intertextuality, focusing on the novel Zanoni (1842), translated by Cusani in 1848.L’articolo illustra la fortuna letteraria avuta dall’autore vittoriano oggi poco frequentato, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, che divenne celebre nell’Italia dell’Ottocento grazie alle traduzioni dello storico, Francesco Cusani. Si procederà, dunque, ad un confronto tra autore e traduttore, secondo i più recenti studi in stilistica traduttiva e intertestualità, focalizzando l’attenzione sulla produzione del romanzo Zanoni (1842), tradotto dal Cusani nel 1848
La prima ricezione inglese dell’"Aminta": uno sguardo d’insieme
No full textThe essay deals with the first English destiny of the Aminta by Torquato Tasso, examining its focal moments and the cultural context in which its reception took place. In addition, the article aims to show the reasons why Tasso’s pastoral wasn’t take as a theatrical model by Elizabethan dramatists, despite of the great appreciation that it received on the island and the high regard that the British had of its author
Templates of Ethnographic Writing in Organization Studies: Beyond the Hegemony of the Detective Story
No full textUsing a translation lens, we explore templates for writing ethnography in organization studies and their
evolution over time through the analysis of all ethnographic papers published in the premier journal
Administrative Science Quarterly, 1956-2018.We found three templates of ethnographic writing. Few early
ethnographic papers resemble travelogues, as they use theory to explain a unique case based on firsthand
experiences of the author. Most studies read like detective stories, using extensive, quantified data from a
case and systematically analyzing it to advance theory. This template has remained predominant over time.
Finally, some ethnographic papers read like postmodern detective stories, in that they attempt to create
knowledge from lived experience, while also hinting at the partiality of this knowledge. This template
appeared around the turn of the century but is today rare. The overall low number of ethnographies and
the lasting hegemony of the ethnography as detective story template reflect the strict disciplining of
ethnography into the emulation of positivist research, constraining knowledge creation in organization
studies. We conclude by offering researchers some strategies to recover the strengths of templates
available in the past to broaden the boundaries of existing norms for writing ethnography today.We thank Tamar Gross and Merav Migdal-Picker for their help in the research process. In developing this article, we benefited much from comments on earlier drafts from participants in the ABC conference in Boston; Harvard-MIT seminar in Economic Sociology; The Centre for Strategy Studies seminar in the Desautels Faculty of Management, McGill University; The Davis Conference on Qualitative Research; the Gothenburg Research Institute seminar; the WOW group; And the HUOS forum in the Hebrew University. The first author thanks the Asper center In the Jerusalem Business School for its generous support, and Yehuda C. Goodman for the ongoing conversation on this projec
VAPOR “BENJAMIM GUIMARÃES”: PATRIMÔNIO DOS RIBEIRINHOS DO SÃO FRANCISCO
No full textDesde o seu lançamento às águas do Rio São Francisco na década de 1920, o vapor “Benjamim Guimarães” tem prestado importantes serviços aos povos da ribeira. Até os anos 1960, pertenceu à frota de empresas de navegação que contribuíram para a dinâmica do sistema econômico regional. A partir de então, passou a fazer viagens turísticas. Desde 1985, por sua importância histórica, integra a lista de bens tombados como patrimônio do Estado de Minas Gerais. É nosso propósito demonstrar como o “Benjamim” participa do “mercado de bens inalienáveis” conforme proposição teórica do antropólogo José Reginaldo Gonçalves (2007) sem perdemos de vista o “estatuto polifônico e hermenêutico” (LIMA FILHO, 2012) que o caracteriza
More Than Prefigurative Politics? Redefining institutional frames to reduce precarity under neoliberal capitalism
No full textThis paper responds to the emergent calls for recovering the role of contentious politics in prefigurative communities to more effectively transform capitalist institutions. Theoretically drawing on the work of Judith Butler, our paper points to the importance of addressing the institutional frames that demarcate who will be (mis)recognized in the public space and which are at the core of politics. Our analysis of the Coop case shows how prefigurative and contentious politics are not incompatible, but can rather strengthen each other in a virtuous circle. When articulated to redefine existing institutional frames, they can reduce precarity. Through this articulation an assembly is constituted where a redefined subject can emerge outside the precarizing frames of neoliberalism. At the same time, our analysis suggests that Coop's political practices do not completely redefine the individualized, calculative neoliberal subject. Project workers embraced the assembly only to the extent that it helped them reduce their self-responsibility and advance their professional and life projects. Overall, these insights advance the literature on grassroots organizations by showing the importance of contentious politics in attempting to redefine the institutional frames, as opposed to solely relying on prefigurative politics outside institutions. Yet they simultaneously confirm the difficulty of redefining the precarious neoliberal subject through collective emancipatory projects.The author(s) disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article. This research has been funded by Fonds Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek, [G.0630.14N]
The authors would like to thank the associate editor Christine Coupland and the three anonymous reviewers for their constructive feedback throughout the review process. Further, they like to thank Koen Van Laer, Marijke Verbruggen and Sara Louise Muhr as well as their colleagues from SEIN – Identity, Diversity & Inequality Research (Hasselt University) and the Qualcor network for their valuable comments on earlier drafts of this paper. A special word of gratitude goes to all members and staff of Coop who participated in our research and in particular to our contact person for granting the authors access to the Coop community and her support in the data-gathering process
Lúcio Cardoso, Maleita e Pirapora. Historicidade e cultura popular na obra de Lúcio Cardoso
No full textIn the novel Maleita, Lucio Cardoso used his father's memories about the history of Pirapora (Minas Gerais) in the last decade of the nineteenth century. The town then developed with the construction of a tissue deposit owned by a company known today as Companhia de Tecidos Cedro e Cachoeira. But the novel is also illustrated with a description of the regional types (native), immigrants, elements of popular culture and belief system, without losing sight of the local government, the riverside landscape and the momentum created by transport integrating the municipality into the regional economic system. We confronted the plot of the novel with information provided by a research held in the region, interpreting it with the contribution of concepts of social anthropology without forgetting the contribution of the history of literature
Museu Antropológico do Vale do São Francisco
No full textO Museu Antropológico do Vale do São Francisco — MAVSF —foi criado com três objetivos fundamentais: o ensino, a pesquisa e a difusão de manifestações culturais da ribeira. Possui doze mostruários em que está representado o rico artesanato regional sem contar os objetos históricos que contribuem para uma visão mais abrangente da cultura material dos ribeirinhos, sobretudo, de seus povos tradicionais. Fotogra- ]ias e documentos históricos, sem se perder de vista as fotogra]ias atuais resultantes de viagens de pesqui- sa, auxiliam o visitante na percepção e compreensão do patrimônio material da ribeira, oferecendo também algum conhecimento sobre o seu patrimônio imaterial. Enfim, o MAVSF foi organizado para que a sociedade brasileira conheça uma das regiões mais importantes do ponto de vista histórico-geográfico e cultural do país
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