Lobbedez, Elise and Lisa Buchter (2023) “The strength of pushbacks, Collective Identity In A Fragmented Mass Movement. Mobilization: An International Quarterly, 28(1), 61–88.

by gnessi | Nov 17, 2023 | A la une EN, Publications EN

This article examines how social movement actors can forge and sustain a collective identity despite heterogeneous backgrounds and the absence of pre-existing commonalities and networks. Based on an ethnography of the French yellow vest movement, we build on the...

Younes D. (2023), “Stigmatizing Commoning: How neoliberal hegemony eroded collective ability to deal with scarcity in Lebanon”, Gender Work and Organizations, 1-19

by gnessi | Nov 17, 2023 | A la une EN, Publications EN

This paper examines how neoliberalism impedes the emergence of alternative organizations. Via a mix of (auto-)ethnography and memory work, it explains how neoliberal values replacing more traditional ones eroded the collective capacity to bring solutions to scarcity...

Clavijo N., Perray-Redslob L., Mandalaki E. (2023). “Cracking a brick in the master’s house: counter practices as counter-accounts of difference and survival”, Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal, DOI 10.1108/AAAJ-07-2022-5936

by gnessi | Nov 17, 2023 | A la une EN, Publications EN

Purpose – This paper aims to examine how an alternative accounting system developed by a marginalised group of women enables them to counter oppressive systems built at the intersections of gender, class and race. Design/methodology/approach – The authors draw on...

Pérezts, M. (2022). Unlearning organized numbness through poetic synesthesia: A study in scarlet. Management Learning, 53(4), 652–674.

by gnessi | Nov 17, 2023 | A la une EN, Publications EN

I define “organized numbness” as the organized inability to perceive sensations, a learned desensitization operating in the way our (1) bodies, (2) language, and (3) knowledge are organized. I propose poetic synesthesia’s power to associate several sensory perceptions...

Mandalaki, E., & Pérezts, M. (2023). “Abjection overruled! Time to dismantle sexist cyberbullying in academia”. Organization, 30(1), 168–180

by gnessi | Nov 17, 2023 | A la une EN, Publications EN

In this essay, we draw on a personal experience of sexist cyberbullying unleashed, on social media, against one of our academic papers, to act up against increasing instances of cybersexism, in the academy. Reading our experience in the context of feminist insights on...

Pérezts, M. & Mandalaki, E. (2023) “Unsilencing silence on business school sexism: a behind-the-scenes narration on regaining voice”, Gender, Work & Organization

by gnessi | Nov 17, 2023 | A la une EN, Publications EN

Abstract Unsilencing sexism-related silence is not a new need, particularly in academic institutions heavily imbued with patriarchy, where sexist events are often ignored or denigrated. In this paper, we draw on a sexist cyberbullying attack unleashed against part of...