Sub-theme 20: Alternative Organization at a Crossroads: Which Routes Forward?
Convenors:
Genevieve Shanahan, Cardiff Business School, United Kingdom
Sara Dahlman, Roskilde University, Denmark
Emil Husted, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark
Session I: Thursday, July 04, 09:00 to 10:30, U7-P0-10
Defining Alternative Organizations
Chair: Genevieve Shanahan
Ozan Nadir Alakavuklar and Patrizia Zanoni
More than alternative organising: Building postcapitalism with eight traditions of Marxist critique of political economy
Discussant(s): Justine Loizeau and Matt Wilson
Anna De Amicis, Lebene Soga and Oluyemisi Bolade-Ogunfodun
Assemblage practices and pivotal momenta in non-traditional configurations of people and things
Discussant(s): Margaux Langlois and Elias G. Borgmann
Erik Mygind du Plessis
The unfinished business of alternative
organization:
Critique
and (in)determinacy in two political parties
Discussant(s): Nadine Arnold and Simon Parker
Session II: Thursday, July 04, 11:00 to 12:30, U7-P0-10
Co-constitution of Alternativity and the Mainstream – Part 1
Chair: Sara Dahlman
Stéphane Jaumier
From governance to politics and from management to organization: Restoring epistemic justice in the study of cooperatives
Discussant(s): Paola Raffaelli and Daniel S. Lacerda
Sébastien Mena, Johanna Mair, Ignas M. Bruder and Thalita Kalix Garcia
Prefiguring democracy beyond the organization? Reverberations of democratic organizing beyond the boundaries of alternative
organizations
Discussant(s): Devi Vijay and Zeynep Özsoy
Alejandro Fortuny-Sicart and Mario Pansera
“We don't want to become good capitalists!” Exploring the journey from antagonistic to agonistic relations in the context
of a recovered enterprise
Discussant(s): Laira Gonçalves Adversi and Alexander Paulsson
Session III: Thursday, July 04, 14:00 to 15:30, U7-P0-10
Co-constitution of Alternativity and the Mainstream – Part 2
Chair: Emil Husted
Elodie Dessy, Benjamin Huybrechts and Joost Luyckx
Neither dilution nor isolation: Theorizing the conditions for consistent diffusion of alternative practices
Discussant(s): Jonas Friedrich and Ozan Nadir Alakavuklar
Manuel Hensmans
How
do alternative organizational imaginaries interact with crises of imaging by
the state and the mainstream industry? A history of Dutch cooperative banks (1885–2021)
and English building societies (1785–2018)
Discussant(s): Fabien Hildwein and Anna de Amicis
Mathilde Gouteux
Organizing dissonance as a strategy for alternative organizations? A processual analysis of a cultural cooperative
Discussant(s): George Aboueldahab and Stéphane Jaumier
Session IV: Friday, July 05, 09:00 to 10:30, U7-P0-10
Identity in and around Alternatives
Chair: Genevieve Shanahan
Justine Loizeau, Juliette Cermeno and Léa Dorion
Prefiguring a violence-free feminist organization: the case of the alternative organization Collages Féminicides Paris
Discussant(s): Sébastien Mena and Zeynep Özsoy
Margaux Langlois and Hélène Picard
How can the alternative be exclusionary? Studying the blind spots of participation and inclusion in an open organization
Discussant(s): Alejandro Fortuny-Sicart and George Aboueldahab
Perceiving alternatives: Toward a trans-centered organizing analytic
Discussant(s): Elodie Dessy and Alexander Paulsson
Session V: Friday, July 05, 11:00 to 12:30, U7-P0-10
Alternative Organizations as Survival
Chair: Sara Dahlman
Paola Raffaelli and Simone Schiller-Merkens
Prefigurative monies: Future imaginaries and prefigurative organizing in an Argentinian complementary currency organization
Discussant(s): Manuel Hensmans and Matt Wilson
Nadine Arnold
Constructing an alternative organization in the nonprofit sector. Assuming actorhood, contesting otherhood, and rationalized
organizing
Discussant(s): Elias G. Borgmann and Mathilde Gouteux
Devi Vijay and Gitte Koksvik
Chronic waiting amidst serious health-related suffering in Kerala,
India: Temporal crossroads of dominant and alternative care
organizations
Discussant(s): Stéphane Jaumier and Daniel S. Lacerda
Session VI: Friday, July 05, 14:00 to 15:30, U7-P0-10
Care as a Mode of Alternative Organization
Chair: Emil Husted
Laira Gonçalves Adversi, Rene Birochi, Rene Seifert and Leonardo Tonon
Ivya's alternative organizing: reflecting on conceptual definitions
Discussant(s): Anna de Amicis and Justine Loizeau
Jonas Friedrich and Christina Lüthy
Working beyond neoliberalism: Organizing alternativity through an ethics of care
Discussant(s): Simon Parker and Margaux Langlois
Fabien Hildwein
Care ethics as a framework for alternative organizing: Organizing through care anthropology
Discussant(s): Ozan Nadir Alakavuklar and Paola Raffaelli
Session VII: Saturday, July 06, 09:00 to 10:30, U7-P0-10
Prefiguration and Postcapitalism
Chair: Emil Husted
Zeynep Özsoy and Beyza Oba
Prefiguring an alternative consumer cooperative: The case of Kadıköy Cooperative
Discussant(s): Nadine Arnold and Alejandro Fortuny-Sicart
George Aboueldahab, Florence Palpacuer and Myriam Kessari
Prefigurating post-capitalism while resisting bio-hegemony: The transformative potential of alternative seed networks
Discussant(s): Sébastien Mena and Elodie Dessy
Alexander Paulsson
Beyond face value: The ecological crisis and money as alternative organizing
Discussant(s): Mathilde Gouteux and Erik Mygind du Plessis
Session VIII: Saturday, July 06, 11:00 to 12:30, U7-P0-10
Critical Performativity
Chair: Sara Dahlman
Elias Borgmann and Emil Husted
As if it we are progressive: A metamodernist perspective on alternative organization
Discussant(s): Manuel Hensmans and Margaux Langlois
Simon Parker
Theory and practice in critical organisation theory: Actionism and pseudo-practice on the steps of the ivory tower
Discussant(s): Devi Vijay and Jonas Friedrich
Matthew Wilson
Reorganising:
Counter-hegemony and critical organisation studies
Discussant(s): Paola Raffaelli and Fabien Hildwein
Daniel S. Lacerda and Yasaman Sadeghi
How do we teach alternative organizations? Connecting critical management theory and practice in the classroom
Discussant(s): Laira Gonçalves Adversi and Sara Dahlman