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R:ETRO seminar with Emmanouela Mandalaki: "Embodied dialogues of care for organising solidarity collectively: insights from the Greek refugee crisis"

  • 1.  R:ETRO seminar with Emmanouela Mandalaki: "Embodied dialogues of care for organising solidarity collectively: insights from the Greek refugee crisis"

    Posted 05-04-2023 10:52
    R:ETRO Seminar Series
    Reputation: Ethics, Trust, and Relationships at Oxford


    Oxford University Centre for Corporate Reputation
    Saïd Business School


    Dear All,

    Please join us online on Tuesday, 9 May, at 4pm BST, for the second R:ETRO seminar of this term, hosted by the Oxford University Centre for Corporate Reputation.

    Emmanouela Mandalaki (NEOMA Business School) will be giving a paper entitled "Embodied dialogues of care for organising solidarity collectively: insights from the Greek refugee crisis."

    Abstract:

    In this paper, I draw on feminist theories on embodied ethics to study solidarity initiatives organized during the early days of the refugee crisis, in Greece. Doing so, I offer a feminist understanding of solidarity organizing as inter-corporeally dialogical. Specifically, I draw on Diprose's ethical theory on inter-corporeal generosity and Butler's conception of recognition of corporeal vulnerability as the locus of a relational ethics, to discuss how inter-corporeal dialogues of care, affect and generosity between different othered bodies, might contribute to the democratic organizing of solidarity. I ponder the ethical and epistemological questions I experienced as a researcher in this study, discussing how attentiveness to the dialogic dynamics between the researcher, the researched and the research context might shape a reflexive research attitude in studying vulnerable contexts. This paper contributes to scholarly debates in organization studies discussing the potentials of dialogic organizing as well as to feminist literature discussions on the organizing of solidarity against forms of precarity reproduced by the neoliberal narrative. 

    Click here to register.

    I hope to see many of you there!

    All the best,
    Rita



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    Rita Mota
    Assistant Professor
    ESADE Business School
    Barcelona
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