Sub-theme 39: Organizing Animals: The Dynamics of Interspecies Power, Privilege, and Possibility
Convenors:
Helen Wadham, Manchester Metropolitan University, United Kingdom
Linda Tallberg, University of Lapland, Finland
Doris Schneeberger, WU Vienna University of Economics and Business, Austria
Session Time Corridor 1: Thursday, July 09, 07:00 to 12:00, Virtual Colloquium (Digivents)
Welcome and Introductions, Session 1
Break 1: 08:30 to 09:00
Break 2: 10:30 to 11:00
Chair: Helen Wadham
Majid Khan, Janet Sayers, Majid Khan and Omer Nazir
Every-Body at Work: Bodily Tolls and Structured Unfreedom in Multispecies Labour
Discussant(s): Caroline Clarke; Leanne Cutcher
Caroline Clarke and Leanne Cutcher
Learning to be affected?’ Commemoration and the non-human world
Discussant(s): Majid Khan; Janet Sayers; Omer Nazir
Debbie Busby
Organising interspecies relations: Interpretation, authority, and care in horse-human practice
Discussant(s): Emma Stendahl; Birgitta Schwartz
Eleanor Lowen
Who cares? Deciphering moral agency in the organisation of animal care.
Discussant(s): Suna Özdemir; Maximilian Heimstädt
Lucie Wiart, Nicole Yang and Géraldine Paring
Care, Control, and the Animal Other: Deconstruction and Embodied Ethics in Practice
Discussant(s): Amalia Ranieri; Daniela Pianezzi; Luigi Maria Sicca
Emma Stendahl and Birgitta Schwartz
Silencing the Horse: Stakeholder Logics, Affected Ignorance, and the Horse Welfare Debate in Equestrian Sport
Discussant(s): Lucie Wiart; Nicole Yang; Géraldine Paring
Amalia Ranieri, Daniela Pianezzi and Luigi Maria Sicca
Ungrievable animals: organizing Spaces of life and death
Discussant(s): Debbie Busby
Session Time Corridor 2: Thursday, July 09, 16:00 to 20:00, Virtual Colloquium (Digivents)
Session 2
Break 1: 17:30 to 18:00
Chair: Linda Tallberg
Suna Özdemir and Maximilian Heimstädt
Good work with good boys and girls: The practical ethics of human-animal co-work in police dog units
Discussant(s): Dina Myllymäki; Sofia Villo
Astou Maraszto
Refracting Behaviorism: A power-critical view on animals and humans in pedagogical and therapeutical Situations
Discussant(s): Harry Wels
Maimoona Waseem and Huriye Yeroz
Faith, Fear, and Fur: Knowledge Production in Multispecies Research Encounters
Discussant(s): Jacinthe Dupuis; Mathieu Chaput
Harry Wels
San tracking as avenue to organizing naturecultures
Discussant(s): Astou Maraszto
Dina Myllymäki and Sofia Villo
Leveraging representations of extinct animals to enable capitalization of controversial scientific research: The mammoth revival
project
Discussant(s): Eleanor Lowen
Jacinthe Dupuis and Mathieu Chaput
Do animals participate in the communicative constitution of organization? Materializing and empowering deers in biosocial
organizing.
Discussant(s): Maimoona Waseem; Huriye Yeroz
Session Time Corridor 3: Friday, July 10, 07:00 to 12:00, Virtual Colloquium (Digivents)
Session 3
Break 1: 08:30 to 08:45
Break 2: 10:15 to 10:30
Chair: Doris Schneeberger
Janet Sayers
Becoming Human Through Selective Care in Digitally-Mediated
Dairy Farming
Discussant(s): Gizem Morris; Nilufer Yapici
Gizem Morris and Nilufer Yapici
Ethical Ignorance in Practice: Animals, Care, and Responsibility in Organizational Life
Discussant(s): Janet Sayers
Ana Ferreira Alves and Ana Junça Silva
Pets at work: How companion animals influence work engagement
Discussant(s): Laure Leglise; Lucie Wiart
Lille Dumortier and Eline Jammaers
Confronting problems in food production through a focus on chickens
Discussant(s): Ana Ferreira Alves; Ana Junça Silva
SYED ABBAS
Normalizing Cruelty Through Law and Policy: Poultry Welfare, Productivity Logics, And the Invisibility of Animals in Pakistan’s
Food System
Discussant(s): Rosana Reis; Manuela Presutti; Debora Casoli
Camille Bellet and Barbara Esteves Ribeiro
A sensorial analysis of the rhythmic organising of modern dairy farming
Discussant(s): Juan Pablo Casadiego; Linda Tallberg
Juan Pablo Casadiego and Linda Tallberg
Shared morality or diverse self-understandings? Vegan/Plant-based businesses through posthuman affirmative ethics and identity
Discussant(s): Lille Dumortier; Eline Jammaers
Rosana Reis, Manuela Presutti, Debora Casoli and Manuela Presutti
Moral non-negotiability at work: Neurodivergent feminine leadership and radical ethical stewardship in hospitality supply
chains
Discussant(s): Syed Abbas
Laure Leglise and Lucie Wiart
Governing Animal Life in “Green” Infrastructure: A Posthumanist Critique of Wind Farm Environmental Impact Assessments
Discussant(s): Camille Bellet; Barbara Esteves Ribeiro
Session Time Corridor 4: Friday, July 10, 16:00 to 18:30, Virtual Colloquium (Digivents)
Session 4
Chair: Linda Tallberg
Helen Wadham, José-Carlos García-Rosell and John Lever
Writing animals into business education: A multispecies book in the making
Discussant(s): Sofia Villo; Astrid Huopalainen; Irina Liubertė
Anna De Amicis, Astrid Huopalainen and Alice Brookes
MULTISPECIES WORDLING Moving Beyond Human-Centric Ways of Organising Through Affirmative Ethics and Performative Art.
Discussant(s): Helen Wadham; José-Carlos García-Rosell; John Lever
Sofia Villo, Astrid Huopalainen and Irina Liubertė
Organizational dialectics on interspecies inclusion: a study of an assistance dog team
Discussant(s): Anna De Amicis; Alice Brookes
17.30-18.00 Closing reflections
Helen, Linda, Doris
Helen, Linda, Doris
Session Time Corridor 5: Saturday, July 11, 08:00 to 12:30, Virtual Colloquium (Digivents)

