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
Anna De Amicis, Lebene Soga and Yemisi Bolade-Ogunfodun
Assemblage practices and pivotal momenta in non-traditional configurations of people and things
Erik Mygind du Plessis
A processual theory of alternative organization: Lessons from two political parties
Ozan Nadir Alakavuklar and Patrizia Zanoni
Theorising alternative organising as organising for postcapitalism
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
Sébastien Mena, Johanna Mair, Ignas Bruder and Thalita Kalix Garcia
Democratization through prefigurative organizing? Investigating the democratizing effects of alternative organizations on
mainstream businesses and beyond
Mathilde Gouteux, Ariel Mendez and Nadine Richez-Battesti
Acceptance of tensions as a strategy for alternative organizations? A processual analysis of a cultural cooperative
Elodie Dessy, Benjamin Huybrechts and Joost Luyckx
Neither cooptation nor isolation: Theorizing the conditions for consistent diffusion of alternative practices
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
Stéphane Jaumier
From management to organization and from governance to politics: Cooperatives, one more effort to be truly alternative!
Alejandro Fortuny-Sicart and Mario Pansera
We don't have the intention to become good capitalists! Agonism in a recovered factory in France that aims to become an alternative
to its capitalist past
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)
Laira Adversi, Rene Seifert, Rene Birochi and Leonardo Tonon
Constructing definitions of alternative organizations: The case of the Ivya
Session IV: Friday, July 05, 09:00 to 10:30, U7-P0-10
Care as a Mode of Alternative Organization
Chair: Erik Mygind du Plessis
Sarah L. Jenkins
A tale of two coops: Examining the possibilities for alternativity within social care in the UK
Jonas Friedrich and Christina Lüthy
Working beyond neoliberalism: Organizing alternativity through an ethics of care
Fabien Hildwein
Care ethics as a framework for alternative organizing: Organizing through care anthropology
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
Nadine Arnold
Constructing a new alternative organization in an institutional field. The case of the world’s first refugee parliament
Devi Vijay and Gitte Koksvik
Chronic waiting amidst serious health-related suffering in Kerala,
India: Temporal crossroads of dominant and alternative care
organizations
Session VI: Friday, July 05, 14:00 to 15:30, U7-P0-10
Identity in and around Alternatives
Chair: Erik Mygind du Plessis
Justine Loizeau, Juliette Cermeno and Léa Dorion
Organizing with and against violence: The case of the alternative organization collages féminicides Paris
Margaux Langlois and Hélène Picard
How can the alternative be exclusionary? A case study of the blind spots of participation and inclusion in an open and democratic
organization
Perceiving alternatives: Toward a trans-centered organizing analytic
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
George Aboueldahab, Florence Palpacuer and Myriam Kessari
Prefigurating post-capitalism while resisting the bio-hegemony: The transformative potential of alternative seed networks
Alexander Paulsson
Beyond face value: The ecological crisis and money as alternative organizing
Session VIII: Saturday, July 06, 11:00 to 12:30, U7-P0-10
Critical Performativity
Chair: Genevieve Shanahan
Simon Parker and Robert Cluley
Don’t forget to think: Adorno, actionism and alternatives
Daniel S. Lacerda and Yasaman Sadeghi
How do we teach alternative organizations? Connecting critical management theory and practice in the classroom
Elias G. Borgmann and Emil Husted
As if it makes sense: A metamodernist perspective on alternative organization
Matthew Wilson
Reorganising:
Counter-hegemony and critical organisation studies