Feminist Theories and Activist Practices in Organization Studies
Marianna Fotaki,
Alison Pullen
Abstract:This piece reflects on the untapped potential of feminist theories and activist practices to address vital organizational issues and societal challenges such as inequality, sustainability, and care for the environment. While we recognize and briefly review the progress on gender issues in organization studies achieved over the last decades, our focus is on identifying the critical and underutilized strands of feminist thinking offering fresh responses to these problems, including decolonial feminism, feminist … Show more
“…Especially in the current neoliberal landscape it is necessary to consider new forms of campaigning and to forge new alliances (Grosser and McCarthy, 2018). This is also the case for transnational feminist alliances, and solidarities across borders (Fotaki and Pullen, 2023).…”
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| INTRODUCTIONAt the time of writing this editorial, the effects of wars, ecological crises, neoliberalism, poverty, human rights abuses, land enclosures and gendered violence are affecting vulnerable communities and people along intersectional lines. These injustices, as they are occurring in many parts of the world, have violent histories whether it be genocide, slavery, commons theft, or sexual violence. At the same time neo-fascist politics celebrating divisiveness, hate, racism, transphobia and sexism are sweeping through the political realm internationally, sometimes overtly and sometimes more subtly. geographical, organisational, and temporal divides.
“…Especially in the current neoliberal landscape it is necessary to consider new forms of campaigning and to forge new alliances (Grosser and McCarthy, 2018). This is also the case for transnational feminist alliances, and solidarities across borders (Fotaki and Pullen, 2023).…”
F e m i n i s m a n d S o c i a l M o v e m e n t sFeminism and social movements: Notes on hope and despair
| INTRODUCTIONAt the time of writing this editorial, the effects of wars, ecological crises, neoliberalism, poverty, human rights abuses, land enclosures and gendered violence are affecting vulnerable communities and people along intersectional lines. These injustices, as they are occurring in many parts of the world, have violent histories whether it be genocide, slavery, commons theft, or sexual violence. At the same time neo-fascist politics celebrating divisiveness, hate, racism, transphobia and sexism are sweeping through the political realm internationally, sometimes overtly and sometimes more subtly. geographical, organisational, and temporal divides.
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