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- Case, Peter, et al.
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Roundtable : health at work
- 2012
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Ingår i: Ephemera. - 2052-1499 .- 1473-2866. ; 11:3, s. 308-318
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- Johansson, Janet, 1973-
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“Sweat is weakness leaving the body” : A study on the self-presentational practices of sporty top managers in Sweden
- 2017
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Embracing the symbolic interactionist view of the notion of self, applying dramaturgical theories of self-presentation, this study unpacks the linkage between leaders’ lifestyle behaviours (in athletic endeavours) and the formation of their sense of self as occupants of the leadership role from a self-expressive perspective. I conducted a study of a group of sporty top managers in Sweden. With interviews and observations, I anchored the research focus in verbal expressions within storytelling and in performative expressions of the top managers. Drawing on social interpretations of sport and athleticism and with a dramaturgical analytical frame, I examine how the sporty top managers interpret their athletic endeavours to express important values, beliefs and concerns to express ‘whom they want to become’ as occupants of the leadership role.The analysis shows that lifestyle behaviours in athletic endeavours serve as a new source of self-meanings with which the sporty top managers create and express wishful notions about themselves as occupants of the leadership role. By incorporating athletic values with their distinctive understanding of a ‘good leader’, the top managers seek to present themselves with an idealized image of ‘athletic leaders’. In this process, the top managers outline a role-script that is mainly characterized with self-disciplinary qualities and masculine values, they define the leadership context with athleticism in the centre, and they express an overt intent to elevate some people and exclude others in organizational processes based on athletic values in which they personally believe. Hence, the process of formation of self as ‘athletic leaders’ is not only ‘self-relevant’, but it is personally, interpersonally and socially (organizationally) meaningful. The analysis also shows that the top managers seek to give legitimacy and an elitist status to the idealized view of self by using expressive strategies to appropriate their appearances, regulate emotions and bodily senses, and mould a gendered self-image. This thesis contributes to leadership studies in several ways. First, the study expands on extant literature theorizing the linkage between lifestyle behaviours and the formation of sense of self as occupants of the leadership role from a new angle. It contends that lifestyle behaviours such as athletic endeavours have become a prime site where business leaders express creative narratives regarding an idealized view of themselves. Second, this study further advocates that the formation of sense of self of leaders is not a simple outcome of different forms of regulative discursive regime. Rather, this process involves creative self-reflexive activities that address individuals’ personally held values, their distinctive pursuits in becoming an idealized leader, relations with others, and some prevailing leadership notions that they believe to be closely associated with the nature of lifestyle behaviours in which they engage and commit. Third, this study confirms the notion that the formation of the understanding of self of leaders is not only a function of verbal expressive devices, but that it also involves individuals’ performative strategies in ‘expressive control’ (e.g. Down & Reveley, 2009; Goffman, 1959). This thesis adds to understanding this point of view through a discussion of self-presentational practices in non-work related activities. Finally and most importantly, this study suggests that the process of formation of the sense of self of business leaders is expressive of meanings on personal, interpersonal and social dimensions in its own right. That is, through creating new self-meanings in micro-level practices in lifestyle behaviours, the occupants of the leadership role define the situational characteristics (the leadership context), express intentions to enact the power feature of inclusion and exclusion of others; generate new understanding of the leadership role, and they reproduce and strengthen some prevailing leadership ideals.
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- Linstead, Stephen, et al.
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Multiplicity, Virtuality and Organization : The contribution of Gilles Deleuze
- 2007
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Ingår i: Organization Studies. - : Sage, London. - 0170-8406 .- 1741-3044. ; 28:10, s. 1483-1501
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Formal organization is often seen as opposed or resistant to change, in theory as well as in practice. Drawing primarily on the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze we argue that the reverse is true — that organization is itself a dynamic quality and that change and organization are imbricated in each other. We expand several key concepts of this philosophy in relation to organization (the multiplicity of order and the multiplicity of organization, strata and meshworks, virtuality and multitude) all of which draw attention to the unstablebut ever-present forces that subvert and disrupt, escape, exceed and change organization. This enables an understanding of organization as creatively autosubversive — not fixed, but in motion, never resting and constantly trembling.
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- Munro, Iain, et al.
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Deleuze and the deterritorialization of strategy
- 2018
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Ingår i: Critical Perspectives on Accounting. - : Elsevier BV. - 1045-2354 .- 1095-9955. ; 53, s. 69-78
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Mainstream ideas of strategy are aimed at gaining and maintaining power. In contrast, the work of Deleuze and Guattari is directed against the concentration of corporate and state power and capitalist forms of exploitation. Their writings provide us with valuable concepts for understanding the workings of strategy and exploring creative ways through which strategy can be re-evaluated and subverted. This paper develops three of Deleuze and Guattari’s main concepts for understanding the strategic movements within contemporary capitalism: i) nomadic strategy, ii) deterritorialization, and iii) the occupation of smooth space. It then uses these concepts to explain the rise of new strategies in the domains of the news media, the music industry and the Occupy movement, which attempt to subvert corporate forms of exploitation. This radically challenges existing processual notions of strategy that have an underlying conservative bias, as well as other popular conceptions of strategy like Porter’s management of “barriers to entry”.
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- Pullen, Alison, et al.
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Affective politics in gendered organizations : Affirmative notes on becoming-woman
- 2017
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Ingår i: Organization. - : SAGE Publications. - 1350-5084 .- 1461-7323. ; 24:1, s. 105-123
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Current approaches to the study of affective relations are over-determined in a way that ignores their radicality, yet abstracted to such an extent that the corporeality and differentially lived experience of power and resistance is neglected. To radicalize the potential of everyday affects, this article calls for an intensification of corporeality in affect research. We do this by exploring the affective trajectory of ‘becoming-woman’ introduced by Deleuze and Guattari. Becoming-woman is a process of gendered deterritorialization and a specific variation on becoming-minoritarian. Rather than a reference to empirical women, becoming-woman is a necessary force of critique against the phallogocentric powers that shape and constrain working lives in gendered organizations. While extant research on gendered organizations tends to focus on the overwhelming power of oppressive gender structures, engaging with becoming-woman releases affective flows and possibilities that contest and transgress the increasingly subtle and confusing ways in which gendered organization affects people at work. Through becoming-woman, an affective and affirmative politics capable of resisting the effects of gendered organization becomes possible. This serves to further challenge gendered oppression in organizations and to affirm a life beyond the harsh limits that gender can impose.
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- Pullen, Alison, et al.
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Postscript: Queer Endings/Queer Beginnings
- 2016
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Ingår i: Gender, Work and Organization. - : Wiley. - 0968-6673 .- 1468-0432. ; 23:1, s. 84-87
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- Pullen, Alison, et al.
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Sexual Spaces
- 2010
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Ingår i: Gender, Work and Organization. - : Wiley. - 0968-6673 .- 1468-0432. ; 17:1, s. 1-6
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- Thanem, Torkild, 1973-
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All talk and no movement? Homeless coping and resistance to urban planning
- 2012
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Ingår i: Organization. - : SAGE Publications. - 1350-5084 .- 1461-7323. ; 19:4, s. 441-460
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Privileging the discursive expression of micro-resistance while exploiting spatial metaphors such as cynical distancing and escape, recent work in Critical Management Studies (CMS) has tended to find resistance everywhere without actually examining its spatial whereabouts. Utilizing a spatial approach, this article therefore investigates how homeless people in Stockholm not only resisted but also coped otherwise with two urban planning projects that intended to drive them away from two public places. Whereas some of the homeless subverted the planners’ intentions by returning, others confirmed their intentions by leaving. The article further discusses the nomadic nature of these movements and how they were related to homeless discourses of apathy, cynicism and contentment. Finally, it discusses what implications this may have for homeless people and urban planning organizations, and for the understanding of resistance in CMS.
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- Thanem, Torkild, 1973-, et al.
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Buggering Freud and Deleuze : Towards a queer theory of masochism
- 2010
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Ingår i: Journal of Aesthetics & Culture. - : Informa UK Limited. - 2000-4214. ; 2, s. 1-10
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Both Freud’s and Deleuze’s understandings of masochism limit the transgressive and subversive forces of masochism by taking sexual difference for granted. Drawing on Newton’s fashion photography for Wolford and on feminist interrogations of Freud, Deleuze and masochism, this paper therefore seeks to develop an alternative, queer theory of masochism as sexual indifference. Viewing masochism as sexual indifference opens up movements of desire beyond the heterosexual matrix of male masochists and female mistresses. This is therefore an exercise in buggery. In the first half of the paper we bugger Freud’s understanding of masochism with Deleuze’s diverging understanding of masochism. In the second half we bugger Deleuze’s understanding of masochism with other parts of his own work, with feminist critique, and with Newton’s photography.
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- Thanem, Torkild, 1973-, et al.
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Embodying emotional labour
- 2005
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Ingår i: <em>Gender, Bodies and Work</em>. - Aldershot : Ashgate. ; , s. 31-43
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)
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- Thanem, Torkild, 1973-, et al.
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From stress to resistance : Challenging the capitalist underpinnings of mental unhealth in work and organizations
- 2022
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Ingår i: International journal of management reviews (Print). - : Wiley. - 1460-8545 .- 1468-2370. ; 24:4, s. 577-598
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The worldwide spread of work-related mental unhealth suggests that this is a major problem affecting organizations and employees on a global scale. In this paper, we therefore provide a thematic review of the literatures that address this issue in management and organization studies (MOS) and related fields. While these literatures examine how employee mental health is affected by organizational and occupational structures and managed by organizations and employees, they have paid relatively little attention to the capitalist labour relations which underpin the unhealthy conditions of contemporary working life. They have paid even less attention to how these conditions may be resisted. To help future scholarship in MOS challenge this state of affairs, we draw on some of the most basic but central notions of exploitation, alienation and resistance in classic and current critiques of capitalism, optimistic that this may help strengthen the field's capacity to confront mental unhealth in settings of work and organization.
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- Thanem, Torkild, 1973-, et al.
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Just doing gender? Transvestism and the power of underdoing gender in everyday life and work
- 2016
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Ingår i: Organization. - : SAGE Publications. - 1350-5084 .- 1461-7323. ; 23:2, s. 250-271
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- While previous research in organization studies has utilized transgender to show how gender is done, overdone and undone, this literature lacks empirical grounding, and the theoretical arguments dominating it tend to idealize the transgressive power of transgender while reducing transgender to hyperbolic drag and stereotypical passing. To further advance the understanding of transgender within and around organizations, this article presents a qualitative study from a Northern European country to investigate how male-to-female transvestites do and undo gender in everyday life and work. In contrast to extant research, we found that participants did transgender and undid gender by underdoing gender, that is, by combining feminine, masculine and ungendered practices and attributes in ways that made passing and drag insignificant. As transvestites simultaneously expressed masculine and feminine forms of embodiment, we argue that they may more obviously challenge, though not dismantle, dominant forms of gender and identity than suggested by previous accounts. We conclude by discussing broader implications for the understanding of gender, identity, power and resistance in organizations.
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- Thanem, Torkild, 1973-
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Living on the edge : Towards a monstrous organization theory
- 2006
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Ingår i: Organization. - : SAGE Publications. - 1350-5084 .- 1461-7323. ; 13:2, s. 163-193
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Following the recent curiosity for monsters in social and organizational research, this paper questions the power, purity and boundaries of organization by accentuating its risky encounters with heterogeneous, monstrous bodies. In an attempt to problematize organization theory’s implicit dissociation of monsters from organization, the understanding and treatment of monsters is traced across a variety of discursive formations in Western history—from Medieval and Renaissance theology and medicine, via Classical life science, freak shows and contemporary performance art, to recent social science and organization theory. Invoking Deleuze and Guattari’s (1988) work on creative involution, the paper goes beyond previous social and organizational research in thinking the radicality of monsters, and it concludes with an argument for a monstrous organization theory that: (i) encourages organizational researchers to critically reflect about their own monstrosity; (ii) challenges the stigmatization of monstrous embodiment; and (iii) delves into bodies that live on the edge and disrupt organizational boundaries
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- Thanem, Torkild, 1973-, et al.
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Monstrous ethics
- 2015. - 1
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Ingår i: The Routledge Companion to Ethics, Politics and Organization. - Abingdon : Routledge. - 9780415821261 - 9780203566848 ; , s. 433-446
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- Thanem, Torkild, 1973-
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More passion than the job requires? : Monstrously transgressive leadership in the promotion of health at work
- 2013
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Ingår i: Leadership. - : Sage Publications. - 1742-7150 .- 1742-7169. ; 9:3 (SI), s. 396-415
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Despite Weber’s early emphasis on passionate emotions in charismatic leadership and a recent but broader interest in the embodied and emotional aspects of leadership, we still know relatively little about how passions are embodied in leadership. We also know little about how such passions may transgress formally and socially defined limits of leadership in organizations. Through a case of workplace health promotion this paper therefore investigates how people in organizational leadership roles passionately – and corporeally – transgress the limits of these roles whilst pursuing organizational change. Going beyond extant research, the paper argues that the leaders’ pursuit of health was driven by their own embodied passions as well as by organizational rationales, but that their passions were expressed in largely non-charismatic ways that de-motivated rather than motivated employees.
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- Thanem, Torkild, 1973-, et al.
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Open space = open minds? : Unintended consequences of pro-creative office design
- 2011
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Ingår i: International Journal of Work Organisation and Emotion. - 1740-8938 .- 1740-8946. ; 4:1, s. 78-98
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Recently, open office design has witnessed a shift from formalised design models toward the promotion of fun, spontaneity and creativity through design. Using qualitative data from two case studies, we investigate how this 'new spirit' of open and pro-creative office design may afford a broader range of behaviours than originally intended. We argue that it may actually undermine the kind of creativity that it is intended to foster, producing unforeseen forms of employee creativity that normalise rather than disrupt structures and boundaries. Finally, we discuss what implications this may have for the understanding of organisational politics.
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- Thanem, Torkild, 1973-
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Scribens in corpore
- 2015. - 1
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Ingår i: Skrivande om skrivande. - Lund : Studentlitteratur AB. - 9789144106151 ; , s. 91-104
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- Thanem, Torkild, 1973-
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The ghost in the organism
- 2002
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Ingår i: Organization Studies. - London : Sage. - 1741-3044 .- 0170-8406. ; 23:5, s. 817-839
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The emergence of the idea that organizations are like organisms is generally seen as having saved organization studies (OS) from its mechanistic precepts. We argue that it has not. Rather, the mechanistic underpinnings of organization merely found a new medium of expression in the organism metaphor. This is largely due to the particular legacy that first informed so-called organic thinking about organizations in the 20th century. This essai investigates the history of the words organization and organism and asks how it became possible for one to be used as a metaphor for the other. Then it examines the way that the organism was brought into the fold of organization so as to reinforce the Modernist and mechanistic underpinnings of the field. We conclude that if the mechanistic ghost in the organism is to be exorcised, OS needs to recognize and rethink these underlying premises. Towards this end, we offer two alternative ways of thinking organization via the organism: one pre-Modem and one post-Modern.
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- Thanem, Torkild, 1973-, et al.
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What can bodies do? Reading Spinoza for an affective ethics of organizational life
- 2015
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Ingår i: Organization. - : SAGE Publications. - 1350-5084 .- 1461-7323. ; 22:2, s. 235-250
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Recent attempts to develop an embodied understanding of ethics in organizations have tended to mobilize a Levinasian and “im/possible” ethics of recognition, which separates ethics and embodiment from politics and organization. We argue that this separation is unrealistic, unsustainable, and an unhelpful starting point for an embodied ethics of organizations. Instead of rescuing and modifying the ethics of recognition, we propose an embodied ethics of organizational life through Spinoza’s affective ethics. Neither a moral rule system nor an infinite duty to recognize the other, Spinoza offers a theory of the good, powerful and joyful life by asking what bodies can do. Rather than an unrestrained, irresponsible and individualistic quest for power and freedom, this suggests that we enhance our capacities to affect and be affected by relating to a variety of different bodies. We first scrutinize recent attempts to develop an ethics of recognition and embodiment in organization studies. We then explore key concepts and central arguments of Spinozian ethics. Finally, we discuss what a Spinozian ethics means for the theory and practice of embodied ethics in organizational life.
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- Wallenberg, Louise, 1970-, et al.
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"There is always something that one can do" : Social Engineering and Organization in the Family Politics of Alva Myrdal
- 2019
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Ingår i: Power, Politics and Exclusion in Organization and Management<em></em>. - : Routledge. - 9780367233990 - 9780429279683 ; , s. 39-50
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This chapter introduces the work and writings of 20th-century Swedish politician, diplomat and public intellectual Alva Myrdal. Myrdal’s social democrat family politics was based on a bizarre combination of feminist and eugenic social engineering, which shaped the organization of the Swedish welfare state and advanced women’s participation in the labour market. According to Myrdal, a person’s abilities were a question of nurture more than nature; rather than being given at birth, they were shaped and nurtured by social and economic conditions. Alva Myrdal may be seen as the key architect of a modern and egalitarian “gender system” that has increasingly, albeit imperfectly, shaped the lives and careers of Swedish women and men. Myrdal was a tempered radical who achieved radical change through mainstream institutions. She may have dressed and looked like a femocrat, but her unselfish devotion to social progress is in stark contrast to contemporary femocrats who seem to care about little but their own careers.
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- Wallenberg, Louise, 1970-, et al.
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What’s Wrong with Queer? Between Queer Dialogue and Separatist Safe Spaces
- 2017
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Ingår i: Feminists and queer theorists debate the future of critical management studies. - Bingley : Emerald Group Publishing Limited. - 9781786354983 - 9781786354976 ; , s. 195-201
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- In this short piece we take issue with the current separatist tendencies that are being expressed in certain parts of the queer community. We illustrate how this compares with central ideas in proto-queer thought and queer theory, and how it risks undermining the possibility of a queer dialogue and queer politics.
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