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Social movements against internal colonialism from wind energy investments in Mexico
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Author: Jacobo Ramirez, Copenhagen Business School
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Mexico’s neoliberal development policies have facilitated private investments in wind energy projects. How do wind energy development investments contribute to a more inclusive society and the well-being of indigenous people? This paper employs internal colonialism and social movement theories and research to investigate the Zapotecas and Ikoojts indigenous people’s mobilization against wind energy development investments in Oaxaca, Mexico. Based on a qualitative longitudinal study developed between 2013 and 2017, the findings reveal that the Zapotecas and Ikoojts’ mobilizations mirrors anti- extractive industry movement frames, such as lack of consultation, exclusion, improper application of the free, prior and informed consent (FPIC) principle, negative impacts on the environment, sacred sites, and human rights. However, the Zapotecas and Ikoojts strategically interweave anti-neoliberalism frames into their social movements. A strategy to make their struggle salient for the impacts of internal colonialism that evolves from wind energy neoliberal investment in their communities. Zapotecas and Ikoojts voice an apparent contradiction in their social movement: uneven regional development and a lack of participation as economic partners in wind energy investments. This apparent contradiction is discussed based on the history embedded in the Zapotecas and Ikoojts’ social mobilizations against foreign and local invasions. Their anti- neoliberal frames mirror the mobilization of people in developed countries, specifically white men, and the less educated, who feel left behind in the march for neoliberalism.
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Coral Not Coal: Enlisting the Worlds of Fame and Celebrity in Climate Change Politics
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Author: Christopher Wright, U. of Sydney Business School
Author: Daniel Nyberg, U. of Newcastle, Australia
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As the physical manifestations of anthropogenic climate disruption have become increasingly evident, so political contestation has increased over how best to respond. These contestations become particularly pronounced where extreme climate-related weather events provide a specific focus for political debate. In this paper we focus on the case of a specific ‘climate hotspot’; Australia’s Great Barrier Reef and recent, extreme coral bleaching events. Using the conceptual framework of Boltanski and Thevenot’s (2006) ‘economies of worth’, we explore how appeals to fame and celebrity have proved central to the political dispute over how to respond to this climate disruption. Our paper contributes not only to debates over the ‘celebritization’ of climate politics, but also to our understanding of the role of fame and celebrity as a source of political critique and justification.
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Paper is No Longer Available Online: Please contact the author(s).
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Protean uses of trust: A curious case of science hoaxes
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Author: Sabina Siebert, U. of Glasgow
Author: Stephanie Schreven, U. of Glasgow
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This article explores an intervention that practises the ‘art of deception’ in the context of biomedical publishing. Specifically, we explore the science hoax aimed at revealing problems in the peer review process. We pose a question – are science hoaxes based on deception ever justified? Drawing on interviews with biomedical scientists in the UK, we identify the issue of trust as the key element in the scientists’ evaluations of hoaxes. Hoaxes are seen by some to increase trust, and are seen by others to damage trust. Trust in science is thus a Protean concept: it can be used to argue two completely different, and sometimes contradictory, positions. In this case the same argument of trust was recognizably invoked to defend the hoaxes, and to argue against them.
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The Differential Mattering of Oil Palms on the Planet of the Apes
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Author: Thomas Preetzmann, Aarhus School of Business and Social Sciences
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This paper concerns itself with how a specific materialization of discourse makes a difference in practice and unravels the associated performative consequences in the food system, an essential business system to the development of mankind. Using a specific sociomaterial causality between dying orangutans and expanding oil palm plantations as the starting point, I explore how it produced new practices and how they sediment in the food system. To address this framing, I draw on a longitudinal, unique and comprehensive qualitative dataset from this particular research setting. The specific approach of the study is differentiated by its grounding in agential realism, a research lens that theorizes entanglement of meaning and matter and thereby challenges the predominantly social treatment of agency. By connecting the research lens with the empirical data and literature on firm strategizing and ‘green’ practices, it is unpacked how a specific materialization produces new practices in the system. The paper concludes with a discussion of the findings in a critical management perspective.
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Maintaining liminal spaces for transition
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Author: Gemma Irving, U. of Queensland, Australia
Author: April L. Wright, U. of Queensland
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By drawing on ideas about the social production of organizational space through the day-to-day tactics of space users, we explore how liminal spaces are maintained inside organizations. Liminal spaces include corridors, stairwells and doorways, which exist between dominant spaces such as hospital wards and offices. Liminal spaces are hard to maintain because they are associated with ambiguity and invite reinterpretation, yet they also facilitate important organizational processes like change and creativity. In the context of a qualitative study of an emergency department, we demonstrate how a corridor acts as a liminal space to facilitate patient transitions. We identify three challenges to the meaning of the liminal space, and six tactics that space maintainers use to maintain the liminal space. Our research contributes to an understanding of how organizational spaces are maintained and to conceptual debates about liminality.
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