A dynamic view of organizing

Pellegrinelli, Carmen; Parolin, Laura Lucia

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“…Not only were the activities of the group (re)constructed as ostensibly 'charitable', but the newspaper in which it was printed had a conspicuously greater level of popular reach. Our extensive analysis of the Superbergamo case (see e.g., Pellegrinelli & Parolin 2021;Pellegrinelli, Parolin & Castagna 2022) gives us a particularly wellinformed vantage point in unravelling the semantic form, framed by catholic neoliberal rhetoric, that normalised Superbergamo as an expression of common sense volunteering consistent with the charity model.…”

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Media representation of mutual aid practices: Superbergamo as ‘good news’

Parolin

Pellegrinelli

2022

Critical Discourse Studies

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During the pandemic, civil society organisations adjusted their purpose to provide support to the most vulnerable. In the midst of the first wave, Superbergamo, an initiative that grew out of local activist associations, provided groceries and medicine to the elderly, the infirm, and at risk groups during the lockdown in Bergamo, Italy. This research analyses a newspaper article from Corriere della Sera published almost two years after the event, which tells the story of Stefano 'Kino', one of the volunteers of Superbergamo. Using Critical Discourse Analysis, we show how the mainstream media normalised the story of Superbergamo to transform a critical, radical, leftist mutual aid practice, into an example of charitable volunteering. By omitting and recontextualising central elements, the article inscribed the mutual aid practice in a catholic narrative, stripping it of any critical afflatus of the status quo. Reframed within the catholic vocabulary by the Corriere della Sera's weekly insert 'good news', the story of Superbergamo becomes one that reinforces the common sensical model of catholic charitable volunteering.

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“…(Pellegrinelli & Parolin 2021;Pellegrinelli et al 2022), which highlighted how the initiative displayed characteristics of radical mutual aid practice, such as the critiques of systemic inequalities and the official narrative of 'business as usual' during the initial period of the pandemic in Italy.…”

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Media representation of mutual aid practices: Superbergamo as ‘good news’

Parolin

Pellegrinelli

2022

Critical Discourse Studies

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Alice in Wondertheatre: An Affective Ethnography

Pellegrinelli,

Parolin

2023

The Posthumanist Epistemology of Practice Theory

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In March 2020, Bergamo was hit by the first wave of the pandemic. More than 6000 people have died in the area, where the emergency facilities lived in a stressful situation for months. In January 2022, a group of ER doctors and nurses from the Papa Giovanni XXIII hospital in Bergamo (Italy)—the frontline in the crisis—wanted to reflect collectively on their experience with the COVID-19 pandemic. The group set up a one-year-long theatre workshop involving around twenty colleagues from the ER. The workshop was also aimed at preparing a theatre show, “Giorni muti, notti bianche” (Silent days, sleepless nights), presented in the Bergamo’s main theatre. By participating in the theatre workshop, we conducted a collaborative affective ethnography to investigate the dimension of affects in the ER professionals’ work practices during the first wave of the pandemic. This chapter is based on an affective ethnography and it considers the characteristics of this (post)qualitative research method and its potential for organisational scholars.

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A dynamic view of organizing

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Media representation of mutual aid practices: Superbergamo as ‘good news’

Media representation of mutual aid practices: Superbergamo as ‘good news’

Alice in Wondertheatre: An Affective Ethnography

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