Solidarity in crisis? Community responses to refugees and forced migrants in the Greek islands

Fotaki, Marianna

doi:10.1177/13505084211051048

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“…As scholars have demonstrated, organizations can contribute to and exacerbate the exposure of certain subjects to risk through, for example, categorizing and framing groups in ways that deny their status as 'valid' human subjects and thus foreclose recognition of their vulnerability (Fotaki, 2017;Kenny, 2018;Tyler, 2019). As the drive for profit intensifies under neoliberal capitalism, certain bodies including migrant labourers are increasingly disposable (Fotaki, 2021).…”

Section: Feminist Ethics: From Abstract Figures To Embodied Subjectsmentioning

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The Costs and Labour of Whistleblowing: Bodily Vulnerability and Post-disclosure Survival

Kenny

Fotaki

2021

J Bus Ethics

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Whistleblowers are a vital means of protecting society because they provide information about serious wrongdoing. And yet, people who speak up can suffer. Even so, debates on whistleblowing focus on compelling employees to come forward, often overlooking the risk involved. Theoretical understanding of whistleblowers’ post-disclosure experience is weak because tangible and material impacts are poorly understood due partly to a lack of empirical detail on the financial costs of speaking out. To address this, we present findings from a novel empirical study surveying whistleblowers. We demonstrate how whistleblowers who leave their role as a result of speaking out can lose both the financial and temporal resources necessary to redevelop their livelihoods post-disclosure. We also show how associated costs involving significant legal and health expenditure can rise. Based on these insights, our first contribution is to present a new conceptual framing of post-disclosure experiences, drawing on feminist theory, that emphasizes the bodily vulnerability of whistleblowers and their families. Our second contribution repositions whistleblowing as a form of labour defending against precarity, which involves new expenses, takes significant time, and often must be carried out with depleted income. Bringing forth the intersubjective aspect of the whistleblowing experience, our study shows how both the post-disclosure survival of whistleblowers, and their capacity to speak, depend on institutional supports or, in their absence, on personal networks. By reconceptualizing post-disclosure experiences in this way—as material, embodied and intersubjective—practical implications for whistleblower advocacy and policy emerge, alongside contributions to theoretical debates. Reversing typical formulations in business ethics, we turn extant debates on the ethical duty of employees to speak up against wrongdoing on their heads. We argue instead for a responsibility to protect whistleblowers exposed to vulnerability, a duty owed by those upon whose behalf they speak.

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Section: Feminist Ethics: From Abstract Figures To Embodied Subjectsmentioning

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The Costs and Labour of Whistleblowing: Bodily Vulnerability and Post-disclosure Survival

Kenny

Fotaki

2021

J Bus Ethics

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“…Similarly, Mersky (2008) uses drawings of dreams by organizational members as a basis for free association. Although Bion and Klein's psychoanalytic theories are a primary influence in most of these (Arnaud, 2002;Parker, 2016) Psychoanalytic discourse analysis (Driver, 2013;Hoedemaekers, 2010) Psychoanalytic narrative analysis (Driver, 2017a;Gabriel, 2014) Grounded theory (Ekman, 2013;Kenny et al, 2020a) Psychoanalytically-inflected ethnography (Fotaki, 2022;Kenny and Gilmore, 2014;Müller, 2012;Özdemir Kaya and Fotaki, 2022) Affective The Symbolic (symbolic identification),…”

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“…The (Bloom, 2016;Cederström and Spicer, 2014;Dashtipour and Rumens, 2018) Psychoanalytic narrative analysis (Gabriel, 1991) Psychoanalytically-inflected ethnography (Özdemir Kaya and Fotaki, 2022;Kenny, 2012 (Spicer and Cederström, 2010;Sørensen and Villadsen, 2015) Psychoanalytically inflected ethnography (Fotaki, 2022); Kenny,…”

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“…Ethnographers have traditionally viewed "the field" in terms of sites with physical boundaries. However, this understanding does not account for new challenges arising from the growth of nonspatially bound phenomena such as global supply chains, migration, and online communities (Bruni, 2005;Fotaki, 2022;Kozinets, 2018;Nadai and Maeder, 2009;Nicolini, 2009;Van Duijn, 2020). The emergence of "things like global financial trading algorithms, 'big data', new symbolic human-machine intelligences, affects" (O' Doherty and Neyland, 2019: 457-458) further complicates matters since they are boundaryless, not only spatially but also empirically and ontologically.…”

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“…We subsequently focus on apposite methods for constructing an unconscious field and ways of embedding in it as a researcher. To illustrate the proposed approach, we present Author 1′s research on "loving one's job" in the fine-dining sector in Turkey (Özdemir Kaya and Fotaki, 2022), and Author 2′s research on communities' self-organization in response to refugees' and forced migrants' arrivals in the Greek islands (Fotaki, 2022). We conclude by discussing the theoretical contributions and practical implications of our conceptualization of "the field" for psychosocial (organizational) ethnographic research.…”

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Grounding in the unconscious: “The field” in psychosocial organizational ethnography

Kaya

Fotaki

2023

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Psychosocial research, which explores the unconscious and affective dynamics of organizational and social phenomena from critical perspectives, often adopts ethnographic methods. However, its locus, the unconscious, has an obscure, diffuse and dynamic nature that calls into question two central assumptions of conventional organizational ethnography: that an organization is a self-contained physical (research) site, and ethnographic research is best led by participant observation. The unconscious is produced by countless agents dispersed across time and space, making it impossible to readily identify a research site. Furthermore, psychosocial phenomena cannot be physically demarcated because a multitude of discourses, imagery, psyches, bodies, and objects are enmeshed in them. These raise contentious ontological, epistemological, and methodological questions for psychosocial researchers. In this article, we ruminate on “the field” in psychosocial organizational ethnography, seeking a robust epistemological and methodological approach to constructing and dwelling in an unconscious research site. Drawing on Lacanian psychoanalysis, we present a conceptual discussion of these issues and translate them into ethnographic methods illustrated by examples from the authors’ research. By critically re-evaluating the question of “the field,” we contribute to ethnographic studies of organizational phenomena with “fuzzy fields” without self-evident boundaries that draw on diverse onto-epistemologies.

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Solidarity, agency, and learning in everyday participation: A look at an adult education program in the context of COVID‐19

Kalman,

Lorenzatti

2024

J Adolescent & Adult Lit

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The outbreak of the COVID‐19 pandemic on the world stage has impacted multiple aspects of our lives, affecting how we interact, organize public affairs, and carry out daily activities. This paper explores how students in an ongoing adult education program in Villa María, Argentina, continued their studies during the 2020–2022 pandemic in the context of the restrictive public health policies that led to suspending in‐person classes and collaborative sessions and moving to digitally mediated formats. It centers on the experience of adult learners confronted by the COVID‐19 emergency and their response through solidarity relationships and agency. We found that the students actively reorganized and redesigned their academic practices by articulating their emergency needs resulting from the pandemic with their continued participation in their program through acts of solidarity. Finally, we share thoughts and future directions about solidarity in adult learning contexts.

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Solidarity in crisis? Community responses to refugees and forced migrants in the Greek islands

Cited by 16 publications

References 61 publications

The Costs and Labour of Whistleblowing: Bodily Vulnerability and Post-disclosure Survival

The Costs and Labour of Whistleblowing: Bodily Vulnerability and Post-disclosure Survival

Grounding in the unconscious: “The field” in psychosocial organizational ethnography

Solidarity, agency, and learning in everyday participation: A look at an adult education program in the context of COVID‐19

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