Sub-theme 20: Alternative to What? Organizing amidst and beyond Capitalism for More-than-Human Livelihoods

Convenors:
Ozan Nadir Alakavuklar, Utrecht University, The Netherlands
Daniel S. Lacerda, MBS School of Business, France
Patrizia Zanoni, Hasselt University, Belgium
Session Time Corridor 1: Thursday, July 09, 09:00 to 12:00, Virtual Colloquium (Digivents)
From Solidarity-Based Practices to Postcapitalist Horizons
Break 1: 10:30 to 10:45
Chair: Patrizia Zanoni
Beyza Oba and Zeynep Özsoy
Negotiating for an Urban Common: The Intersection of Re-appropriation and Co-optation
Discussant(s): Clement Bresson
Clement Bresson, Claire Champenois and Georgios Polychronopoulos
Toward a theory of entrepreneurial commoning
Discussant(s): Beyza Oba
Paola Rodrigues de Matos, Anne Antoni and Anne Antoni
Engagement with poverty in organizational studies: A detached scholarship
Discussant(s): Léa Pontonnier
Genevieve Shanahan
Designing alternative organizations to cultivate postcapitalist agencies: A research agenda
Discussant(s): Paola Rodrigues de Matos
Léa Pontonnier
Understanding the alternative organisation within and against capitalist social relations from the perspective of open Marxism: the case of solidarity-based reuse organisations
Discussant(s): Genevieve Shanahan
Session 1: 9:00-10:30
Session 2: 10:45-12:15
Session Time Corridor 2: Thursday, July 09, 16:00 to 18:00, Virtual Colloquium (Digivents)
Feminist, Care-Based, and Situated Alternatives
Chair: Daniel S. Lacerda
Serena Federica Scorzoni, Daniela Pianezzi, Luigi Maria Sicca, Daniela Pianezzi and Luigi Maria Sicca
Collettiva Kura: Feminist Counter-Infrastructures for Abortion
Discussant(s): Sibel Doğanay
Sibel Doğanay and Janset Özen Aytemur
Organizing in the ruins: cooperatives as alternative organizing forms under neoliberal precarity in Turkey
Discussant(s): George Kokkinidis
George Kokkinidis and Marco Checchi
The micropolitics of temporal work: care, organizational democracy and a haunted clock
Discussant(s): Mayra Ataide de Oliveira
Mayra Ataide de Oliveira and Mário Aquino Alves
Situated Institutional Responsiveness: Reframing Place, Sustainability, and Alternative Organizing in the Atlantic Forest, Brazil
Discussant(s): Serena Federica Scorzoni
Session 3: 16:00-18:00
Session Time Corridor 3: Friday, July 10, 09:00 to 12:00, Virtual Colloquium (Digivents)
Ecological Stewardship, Post-Growth Organizing, and Indigenous Alternatives
Break 1: 10:30 to 10:45
Chair: Ozan Alakavuklar
Tracey Dodd and Harry J. Van Buren III
Alternative organizing through adaptive stewardship for livelihood in a world affected by climate change
Discussant(s): Rene Birochi
Lotte Levelt, Nicolas Chevrollier, Aikaterini Argyrou, Jennifer Hinton, Nicolas Chevrollier, Nicolas Chevrollier, Jennifer B. Hinton and Jennifer B. Hinton
Swimming against the tide: Investigating the transformative capacity of alternative organizations in the Dutch food system
Discussant(s): Harry J. Van Buren
Laira Gonçalves Adversi and Rene Birochi
The mutual influences of organizational practices and food consumption: An ontopolitical practice-based analysis
Discussant(s): Lotte Levelt
Astha Mishra and Sougata Ray
Preservation Without Codification: Kinship, Discipleship, and the Alternative Logic of the Gharana
Discussant(s): Daniel S. Lacerda
Johon Jamatia
Alternative organizing through cultural revitalization and clan-based organizing: Exploring organizing practices of an indigenous community of India
Discussant(s): Astha Mishra
Vitor Arnoni, Rene Birochi and Daniel S. Lacerda
Imagining but not disclosing: Strategic Ambiguity in MST’s political struggle for an alternative agri-food imaginary
Discussant(s): Johon Jamaita
Session 4: 9:00-10:30
Session 5: 10:45-12:15
Session Time Corridor 4: Friday, July 10, 16:00 to 18:30, Virtual Colloquium (Digivents)
Navigating Alternative Organizations within Capitalist Ruins
Chair: Daniel S. Lacerda
Sophia Galière, Céline Bourbousson, Claire Estagnasié, Benoît Regent, Gwenaelle Prigent, Eve Saint Germes, Isabelle Billot Laroche and Anthony Hussenot
Always Becoming, Always Degenerating: Agency and Impure Performativity in Alternative Organizations
Discussant(s): Laura Leglise
Mehlika Saraç and Ozan Nadir Alakavuklar
Firing the boss: Alternative organizing at the intersection of democratic principles and capitalist imperatives
Discussant(s): Minjoo Kim
James Scott Vandeventer and Laure Leglise
Responsive alterity: The nonscalability of community-owned organizations within capitalist renewable energy development
Discussant(s): Mehlika Saraç
Minjoo Kim, Alban Ouahab and Aliénor Decouvelaere
The chameleon and the ecosystem: How a hybrid social enterprise navigates growth amidst capitalism
Discussant(s): Sophia Galière
Session 6: 16:00-18:00
Session Time Corridor 5: Saturday, July 11, 09:00 to 12:30, Virtual Colloquium (Digivents)
From Platform Capitalism to Digital Commoning
Break 1: 10:30 to 10:45
Chair: Ozan Alakavuklar
Khushi Srivastava and Rajeshwari Chennangodu
Digital commoning within capitalist enclosures: Community media and archiving organizations in India
Discussant(s): Jeremy Vachet
Sara Dahlman, Genevieve Shanahan and Hannah Trittin-Ulbrich
No outside? Rethinking alternative organizing in the era of digital capitalism
Discussant(s): Khushi Srivastava
Jeremy Vachet
The Road to Hell is Paved with Good Intentions: A Critique of the "Blockchain for Good" Narrative as an Alternative Organisational Model
Discussant(s): Sara Dahlman
Ozan Aglargöz
Alternative to what? From sharing economy to platform capitalism in the interregnum
Discussant(s): Maria Daskalaki
Maria Daskalaki, Genevieve Shanahan and Maimoona Waseem
Against Taskification: Platform-Enabled Alternatives in the Care Economy
Discussant(s): Alberto Bertello
Alberto Bertello, Francesca Ricciardi, Marco Berti and Marco Berti
Commons and commoning: A problematizing review
Discussant(s): Ozan Aglargöz
Session 7: 9:00-10:30
Session 8: 10:45-12:15