“…Since the 1990s, authors have been increasingly interested in what has been called ‘micro-emancipation’ (Alvesson & Willmott, 1992), emphasizing ‘various forms of everyday emancipation which people mobilize to challenge managerial domination’ (Huault et al, 2014, p. 27). Authors have discussed a range of often informal resistance tactics occurring in the workplace, such as cynicism (Fleming & Spicer, 2003), humour (Collinson, 2002) and sexuality (Brewis, Tyler, & Mills, 2014). Given the ‘quiet’, piecemeal nature of these everyday political acts in the workplace, they have also been labelled ‘infra-politics’ (Böhm, Spicer, & Fleming, 2008; Scott, 2005).…”